Re: Blues older than jazz?

Date: 5 Jun 2003 18:46:21 -0700
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It partly states "Recordings of Jazz did not begin until 1917,..."
D'z anyone know when the 1st recorded ANYTHING was? Wasn't it Edison's own
voice?
mike
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This is a link to a very good article about the origins of jazz, and it
talks a little bit about the blues along the way. I think the influence of
ragtime should be noted, and ragtime was informed by the "light classical"
music that was popular before it. It's very difficult to pull apart the
strands of this music and say what influenced what. Blues influenced jazz
more than the other way around, but mostly the two musics travelled
different paths. The early rural blues are a fascinating development in
themselves, and I think are traceable directly to West African musical
traditions that found their expression in the culture of post-slave times.
Anyway, this is a very good article on a very good website, which was
originally posted here by Ann Rabson.
http://www.redhotjazz.com/originsarticle.html
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From: "Gregory Johnson" <email-address-deleted>
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Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: Blues older than jazz?
> > Jelly Roll Morton was playing blues on piano in New Orleans before WC
> > Handy first heard the music in 1903 in the Delta. Handy composed blues
> > pieces and published them in sheet music form, and he was the first to
> > do that. Handy was of course influential, but I bet New Orleans players
> > other than Morton honked out blues before Handy's 1912 "Memphis Blues"
> > was printed.
>
> And though not all of the music he performed or recorded may be termed as
> blues, Henry "Ragtime" Thomas was playing well before the onset of the
20th
> Century. He performed at the Chicago Exposition in 1893 and also at the St
> Louis World's Fair in 1904.
>
> Greg
>
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