At the end of World War One, at the beginning of the great depression, a new kind of music came around. Jazz was a major factor in the Roaring 20's. The traditional values of the people before dropped as the stock market crashed. Jazz became the most popular music of the decade. People all over the Untied States were caught listening to jazz music. Pretty soon a whole new dance type was made to go along with the new form of music.
Jazz is a form of music with a lot of improvizational notes and solos. Even though the older generation thought of jazz as immoral and threatning, there was no stopping the younger generation from loving this new swing music. Most jazz bands consisted of seven to twelve people all on different interments. The inserments that were othen used were the saxaphone, trumpet, bass guitar, double bass, piano, and drums.
Big bands were made. Anyone that new how to play an insterment would learn some jazz, or blues. Jazz bands and Big bands sounded alike, but they were different in more ways than one. First Big bands had many more people in their bands and a wider array of insterments. The biggest difference though is that Jazz bands used improv for most of their show, as were Big bands were highly arranged and orginized.
-Kara Klaczynski
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