BLACK MUSIC MONTH/AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC APPRECIATION MONTH. The 1920s Chicago music style was based squarely on the newly imported New Orleans style. But the blues departed from older ragtime. Ragtime was hot, but smooth. Jazz music after the Great Migration to Chicago became frenzied and intense. It produced in its performers perpetual smiles as well as quick exhaustion. Physical endurance in Chicago became a musical virtue. Almost from the beginning of the arrival of black jazz to Chicago, the incredible music had a young white fan base. One center for emerging Chicago style jazz was on the West Side among kids attending Austin High School. Although at night they headed for the South Side to pack the jazz joints. It was in these jazz dens that gathered Chicago natives such as clarinetists Benny Goodman (1909- 1986) and Joe Marsala (1907 – 1978), drummers Gene Krupa (1909-1973) and Oak Parker Dave Tough (1907-1948). Pianist Art Hodes (1904-1993) was already performing at the Rainbow Cafe on the West Side while South Side Irish tough cornet player Francis Muggsy Spanier (1901 – 1967) - rounded out a notable local group of talent. (5:22 minutes). Source: Chicago: The Glamour Years (1919-1941), Thomas G. and Virginia L. Aylesworth, Gallery Books, NY, 1986, p. 61-62. youtube/watch?v=lTzP7ecGQiw
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