剧情简介:To 1917: Blues, Louisiana Creole music, minstrel shows, New Orleans jazz, Original Dixieland Jass Band, ragtime
Personalities: Sidney Bechet, Buddy... Bolden, Freddie Keppard, Jelly Roll Morton, James Reese Europe, Nick LaRocca
Jazz begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound of marching bands, Italian opera, Caribbean rhythms, and minstrel shows fills the streets with a richly diverse musical culture. Here, in the 1890s, African-American musicians create a new music out of these ingredients by mixing in ragtime syncopations and the soulful feeling of the blues.更多»