During the first period, i.e., New Orleans, the researchers cite line as pioneers Tony Jackson, Jelly Roll Morton on piano and the horns “Bunk” Johnson, Freddie Keppard, Tommy Ladnier, Louis Armstrong, among others.

The main feature of the New Orleans style of collective improvisation was, simultaneously, usually the cornet, clarinet and trombone, which came to replace the voices of black singing. The bugle call was the “director” because the horn was usually the director of the orchestra. The trombone was the instrument and the rhythm section accompanying flow given by the bass and bass are added to a guitar or a banjo sometimes. This improvisation is called hot in contrast to straight jazz, whose arrangements are written in advance.

The black neighborhood of Chicago, the Black Belt, represents the arrival point for musicians from Storyville, among whom “King” Oliver, Sidney Bechet, Bunk Johnson, the aforementioned “Buddy” Bolden, and pianists such as Albert Ammons, Pinetop “Smith, Jimmy Yancey, and others. In 1922, appears in the orchestra of “King” Oliver behalf of a young Louis Armstrong, as second trumpet. Read the rest of this entry »