When did jazz become popular?

Answer 1

Before 1920,the closest thing to Jazz was a music form called "Ragtime". "Rag" was a form of dancing. Other than this,most music was not even close to the energy of the jazz sound. After World War 1 and pretty complacent kinds of music and war songs,people were looking for something new and uplifting. In the African-American populated areas a new music form was being played in the clubs. Most famously by a 19 year old Trumpet player named Louis Armstrong. There were other greats then also but Louis Armstrong is credited with putting Jazz on the musical map. The 1920s & 30s,became known as the "jazz-age".

Answer 2

In the late part of the 1920's and early 1930's, Dixieland music began to move northward from New Orleans and evolve. The music was functional, typically used for funerals. Fletcher Henderson enlarged the typical dixieland instrumentation (1 Trumpet, 1 Tenor Sax, 1 Trombone, 1 Clarinet) to 10 or more instruments, with a similar rhythm scheme (Piano, Bass and Drumset). The music kept evolving, and then led to the traditional big band setting (2 Alto Sax, 2 Tenor Sax, 1 Bari Sax, 4 Trombone, 4 Trumpet). The music became almost exclusively for dance, and therefore became extremely popular to play on the radio or for people to go to dances and dance to. Men like Glen Miller, Stan Kenton, Count Basie, Woody Herman and Duke Ellington were as popular then as Lady GaGa, Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Jay Z are today.

Answer 3

Jazz became increasingly popular in the 1920's (which is called the Jazz Age) for many reasons. Overall, Jazz Music was "against the rules" in many aspects. When alcohol was banned, there were venues that sold alcohol illegally, and these venues played jazz music. Jazz, being loud dance music and associated with illegal alcohol consumption, was seen as immoral and thought by older generations to undermine proper values. All this only made jazz more enticing.

Musically, jazz also broke many rules, such as the constant use of the tritone musical interval, known as the "devil's interval" and avoided in music prior to this. It also had the pulse on beats two and four instead of one and three. These elements made it shunned by older generations of people in the music world as well.

It was basically opposite from previous music, and was thus extremely refreshing. Being great dance music associated with illegal consumption of alcohol and discouraged by older generations made it nearly irresistible by younger generations.

Answer 4

I think jazz became popular in 1902-1915. One of the Jazz Musicians is Louis Armstrong, who lived in New Orleans. He died in 1971. I'm not really sure when jazz became popular.