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Jazz music originated around the turn of the century, coming from New Orleans, although very soon cities like St. Louis, Chicago and Kansas City were all getting into the new Jazz music.
Jazz is said to have to have spanned from the early music called Ragtime
One of the earliest Ragtime/Jazz entertainers was named Scott Joplin. Joplin is considered the foremost composer of ragtime music. Many of his compositions, including “Maple Leaf Rag” and “The Entertainer,” were published and sold across the country. Ragtime, although based on European classical music, led to the development of the style known as stride piano, one of the first forms of jazz.
Scott Joplin was born near Linden, Texas on November 24, 1868. He moved with his family to Texarkana at the age of about seven.
One of his first compositions was called The Great Crush Collision, which was inspired by a spectacular railroad locomotive crash staged near Waco, Texas in September of 1896.
In 1890s, Joplin worked at the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia, which provided the title for his best known composition known as the Maple Leaf Rag, published in 1899. A few years later he published The Entertainer, another composition Joplin is well known for. Over the next fifteen years, Joplin added to his impressive repertoire, eventually totaled some sixty compositions. In 1911, Joplin moved to New York City, where he devoted his energies to the production of his operatic work, Treemonisha, the first grand opera composed by an African American. At the time, however, this resulted unsuccessfully.
Joplin died on April 1, 1917 in Manhattan State Hospital
http://www.scottjoplin.org/biography.htm
http://cnx.org/content/m10879/latest/
Jazz is said to have to have spanned from the early music called Ragtime
One of the earliest Ragtime/Jazz entertainers was named Scott Joplin. Joplin is considered the foremost composer of ragtime music. Many of his compositions, including “Maple Leaf Rag” and “The Entertainer,” were published and sold across the country. Ragtime, although based on European classical music, led to the development of the style known as stride piano, one of the first forms of jazz.
Scott Joplin was born near Linden, Texas on November 24, 1868. He moved with his family to Texarkana at the age of about seven.
One of his first compositions was called The Great Crush Collision, which was inspired by a spectacular railroad locomotive crash staged near Waco, Texas in September of 1896.
In 1890s, Joplin worked at the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia, which provided the title for his best known composition known as the Maple Leaf Rag, published in 1899. A few years later he published The Entertainer, another composition Joplin is well known for. Over the next fifteen years, Joplin added to his impressive repertoire, eventually totaled some sixty compositions. In 1911, Joplin moved to New York City, where he devoted his energies to the production of his operatic work, Treemonisha, the first grand opera composed by an African American. At the time, however, this resulted unsuccessfully.
Joplin died on April 1, 1917 in Manhattan State Hospital
http://www.scottjoplin.org/biography.htm
http://cnx.org/content/m10879/latest/
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