Thank you for uploading this! FINALLY, a jazz documentary narrated by a black American. I'm fed up with the British and French offerings. Billie Taylor's voice, talent, and his knowledge are much appreciated.
I love to learn more and also it hurts me to see the racism and slavery that took place in this country but I admire so much the true resilience and will to keep going that the African-American people can only truly understand. No one can begin to know the hurt and pain they endured. I apologize on behalf of my country. But I thank God for those who had paved the way for freedom and what a wonderful documentary this is I will show my kids. Thank you for this wonderful music and also teaching the world that you can stand up again after hurt and pain teaching everyone that music can heal you and remind you how strong you are and that better days are ahead. ❤️it’s so important to learn the history behind all the music
i wonder how the world would be like without jazz , and the blues, African Americans contributed so much to America, there is so much information on this video
Taz-on-the-loose Yusef "Artists Created" what came to be called: Jazz, Blues, Funk, R & B - The creations of artists comes from their mind and what they speak in their art of: visual, experiences, interpretations if others experiences, in that elements direct relationship to their senses - visual, emotional, feeling, seeing, tasting, touching, etc. The expression of these are relative to their culture and often heritage - that being the case - all the remaining is "How it's expressed" There would be no sunject of Jazz without the "response to its expression" If you followed this comment in understanding - you now will understand - "It is all about the Creative" expression and response - It takes both to be complete - thus - it is without a complete understanding to "leave out the audience and their response" in understanding the reality of the whole. Exactly as the narrator expressed in the various styles, based on physical location. Take the ego mind out of the concept and replace with "an artist's understanding with their soul-mind" ...and that's when the racial weight of social ideas is left. It about the Soul - and energy is not black or white.
Dr. Billy Taylor summed up the early development of jazz in an entertaining and comprehensive way. His own piano examples with the trio are also great to hear and complement the story.
Great documentary, I love jazz music. I'll come back to New Orleans again in the future to listen to jazz music only. Bourbon street waits for me please.
The swing, rhythm, and perhaps melodies are largely from the black community in the US. The harmonies of jazz and modern pop are an evolution of European classical music. I think it's a beautiful marriage. Both benefited from the partnering.
It's always a shame when people come out with stuff like this. I'm fairly certain many of the jazz pioneers were also educated in the western musical tradition. I know that Scott Joplin and Louis Armstrong were. There's no denying the huge contribution that black people have made to music, but your comment only shows your ignorance. Perhaps you should broaden your horizons.
awesome video this video make me appreciate music so much of the past and the history of it. besides racism and oppression that blacks went through at that time they had the best most beautiful gorgeous music we can imagine of jazz blues early r&b etc... meaningful lyrics they play real instruments instead relying on a computer no auto tune no profanity. grandma's great grandma's and Grandparents were so fortunate in the music scene they had the best of the best music of all time history man besides the young people of today's generation we barley got anybody that really stands out a few exceptions of course but not many like decades ago.
They hated jazz just the way they now hates hip hop. White Americans connected jazz with drugs and now they connect hip hop with drugs. My respect and love for African Americans are huge.
Django Reinhardt - Duke loved Django, an era I truly wish I could travel to... The directions of his influence is overwhelming when realized. ...ask Willie Nelson
This video showed a quick clip of James Reese Europe, but never mentioned his name. He held the first Jazz concert ever with all Black Musicians at Carnegie Hall in 1912. James Reese Europe was a Giant of Jazz whos shoulders all others have stood upon, Please look him up and his 369th Harlem Hell Fighters Band.
I still find this story over simplified and I don’t mean that as a pejorative. Jazz is so unbelievably unorthodox and paradigm shifting that it couldn’t be the work of one man or one music scene. I wish there was a way to have a video of the thousands of individual moments in quiet isolation that a man set his fingers down on the keys and played a diminished 6th or a dominant 13th and slowly that chaotic sound formed itself into a new ordered universe of sound. The fact that jazz came to be at all is truly remarkable thing. So beautiful. So weird. So not Bach.
@@hithere2426 Bach is very calculated and mathematical, jazz is more free form and improvisational, modal music that takes the rules of music and bends and breaks them to create something entirely new and outside of the box of traditional forms of music
Glad that I watched this, I wanted to learn a little bit about jazz as I like most types of music. Unfortunately I have come to the conclusion that I don’t like jazz at all.
May I respectfully ask the author of this valuable piece of Jazz History if there's a way to increase the definition of the images for clearer pictures? I like to increase the size but it turns to a blur. 720 or 1080 works well.-
Hard to hear and understand what the narrator is saying. I tried to catch and google a couple musicians' names, but couldn't because the narrator's voice is weak, muffling, and difficult to understand with music playing in the background. Also, where can I watch part 2 of this video? I'm not able to find it on youtube.
+Anton Moiseenko did you ever get the link to part 2? I am looking for it and can't seem to find it. Please email me if you have it. fourmanc@masonohioschools.comThanks in advance
John Parker. the Irish famine occurred in 1847. did you know that it was the young Turkish Sultan who sent in ships filled with grains from his storage in Poland and Turkey. He also convinced the Morocco ruler to come to Irelands assistance.
Search for Azerbaijani Jazz, your ears will thank you. The brilliant Vagif Mustafazade fused Azerbaijani mugham (complex Azeri folk music) with Africcan American jazz in the 60s and it's an undiscovered gem!
Saying the swing sound came from mixing ragtime with blues is misleading. Mississippi John Hurt was mixing ragtime with blues to create his non-swing non-jazz in about 1912. The swing sound arose about 1929-1931, and blues influence had been very important in jazz long before that (the first publication of a 12-bar "Blues" was in New Orleans in 1908).
Steve Cournane "Ragtime is part of the chronological evolution of jazz." Just as blues is part of the chronological evolution of rock and roll, if I understand right what you're try to say. But that misses the point of what I was trying to say. The quote "Original Introducer to the Stage of the Now Popular 'Rag Time'" is from 1896. Countless musicians who encountered "ragtime" music during more than two decades, before 1896 to after 1915, were not encountering jazz when they encountered it, which is why Elizabeth Cotten and David Miller e.g. didn't play jazz when they played a "rag." Musicians in New Orleans were collectively improvising (the most important characteristic of early jazz) on ragtime pieces as of about 1905, in a way that developed further and as of about 1913 or 1914 became known as "jazz," and only became popular nationally from 1916 on. Saying more than two decades of ragtime were a "jazz style" is even more chronologically off than saying the first decade-plus of soul music should be considered a subcategory of '70s-style "disco."
I really miss your point, there is nothing chronologically off, are you trying to say that ragtime came after jazz? I think not, so the chronology is correct. If you are trying to say that Ragtime had nothing to do with jazz that would be more understandable and in some ways logical, but then you go on to say that musicians in New Orleans were improvising collectively over rags. Thankyou for that, that is exactly why we call rag a part of the evolution of jazz. It is a very important part and along with Africa and the blues, is like the third part of the chain of a magical evolution that leads into syncopation (as Baby Dodds called it) or a more group concept of improvising , jass perhaps, or rag jazz as I have even read sometimes. I put the 1917 ODJB recordings in that bag. Many others would call that sacrilege. I think modern jazz started later and exactly where is hard to say, maybe the 1921 ODJB recording of St Louis Blues. King Olivers's recordings certainly upped the ante somewhat and lead to a more individual concept of improvising (what i would call true jazz), and then onwards into the swing era, bebop, etc. etc. It may be that you define evolution differently to myself and Billie Taylor. You see I even put John Phillip Sousa ( the march composer before ragtime) into that chain of evolution. All music for me is a fusion process, like language. It may not be so for you, therefore it would be impossible to resolve this discussion easily. take care ,
Steve Cournane No one is disputing that jazz had roots in ragtime. Ragtime was earlier than jazz. Because countless musicians who encountered "ragtime" music during more than two decades, before 1896 to after 1915, were not encountering jazz when they encountered it (which is why Elizabeth Cotten and David Miller e.g. didn't play jazz when they played a "rag"), it is misleading for the show to say ragtime is a "jazz style." As an analogy to that, Sam Cooke e.g. was a soul singer and he was not a singer of the later "disco" music. If a show said soul music was a type of disco music, that would be misleading in the same way (all early soul music was not disco music; all early ragtime was not jazz music).
Steve Cournane Ragtime was so popular in the nation generally during the years surrounding about 1903 that countless folk musicians were inspired to play relatively simple pieces that folk musicians routinely called rags, such as David Miller's "Cannon Ball Rag," John Hurt's "Salty Dog," Elizabeth Cotten's "Wilson Rag," Sylvester Weaver's "Guitar Rag," William Moore's "Ragtime Millionaire," and Charlie Patton's "Hang It On The Wall." These generally had basic approaches to chord progressions that were far more similar to published rags than to blues, and had the influence of ragtime in playing approaches. Blues only became a fad among folk musicians (the first people it became a fad among) in about 1909 or 1910, and many folk musicians learned to play rags before they had ever heard of "blues music," e.g. Hurt was playing for dances in about 1905 at about age 13. I have heard Ossman. I agree with Ed Berlin's findings that "ragtime songs" with vocals were considered ragtime. When folk musicians played a blues they were "country blues" musicians (so-called "country blues" is a concept popularized about six decades into the history of folk blues to describe folk blues, e.g. the folk blues by Furry Lewis and Rabbit Brown who lived in cities). And when they played a rag a few minutes later, they were folk ragtime musicians.
This video is incorrect. The way that it is structured makes it seem like Ragtime was founded before the blues which is inaccurate.Blues gave birth their birth after 1870's
There is much to be thankful to the African-American community, many things and especially the music. Thank you.
Imagine the world without the musical contribution by black Americans. Your ears would not want to live there given a choice.
Amen 🙏
Then African Americans should be thankful to mexicans cause that's where most north american music developed from
@@ohtongodinez6444 "you're just a hater on the sidelines"
Amen to this man. Jazz Is magical and truly awesome.
Thank you for uploading this! FINALLY, a jazz documentary narrated by a black American. I'm fed up with the British and French offerings. Billie Taylor's voice, talent, and his knowledge are much appreciated.
Ken Burns has a black narrator.
Thanks immensely Mr. Billy Taylor for your superb jazz elucidation, pedagogy, and discourse. An informative documentary.
African American people played a HUGE part in Music! It's astounding how much they attributed to so many different genres!
I'd probably be listening to irish folk or sea shanties instead of techno if it weren't for The Belleville Three!
Yes, but the white media portays white people as the "best musicians" of all times
Whats more astounding is that mexicans influenced almost all their music.
@@ohtongodinez6444 not entirely untrue, but those were the mexicans of african decent
@@Mussuei wrong a HUGE portion of the top musicians on the charts are black and no one denies this.
I love Billy Taylor's succinct and clear explanations, with demonstrations, and his enthusiasm for this wonderful music.
I love to learn more and also it hurts me to see the racism and slavery that took place in this country but I admire so much the true resilience and will to keep going that the African-American people can only truly understand. No one can begin to know the hurt and pain they endured. I apologize on behalf of my country. But I thank God for those who had paved the way for freedom and what a wonderful documentary this is I will show my kids. Thank you for this wonderful music and also teaching the world that you can stand up again after hurt and pain teaching everyone that music can heal you and remind you how strong you are and that better days are ahead. ❤️it’s so important to learn the history behind all the music
i wonder how the world would be like without jazz , and the blues, African Americans contributed so much to America, there is so much information on this video
Taz-on-the-loose Yusef
"Artists Created" what came to be called: Jazz, Blues, Funk, R & B -
The creations of artists comes from their mind and what they speak in their art of: visual, experiences, interpretations if others experiences, in that elements direct relationship to their senses - visual, emotional, feeling, seeing, tasting, touching, etc.
The expression of these are relative to their culture and often heritage - that being the case - all the remaining is "How it's expressed"
There would be no sunject of Jazz without the "response to its expression"
If you followed this comment in understanding - you now will understand -
"It is all about the Creative" expression and response -
It takes both to be complete - thus - it is without a complete understanding to "leave out the audience and their response" in understanding the reality of the whole.
Exactly as the narrator expressed in the various styles, based on physical location.
Take the ego mind out of the concept and replace with "an artist's understanding with their soul-mind"
...and that's when the racial weight of social ideas is left.
It about the Soul - and energy is not black or white.
I wonder how jazz could have been created without the existence of the world
dont forget house, techno, and country.... yep. It goes far beyond just having impacts on these genres, Riley. We created them.
@@KG88KiteGodMusic Not entirely.
@@KG88KiteGodMusic house and techno? How come?
one of the most beautiful thing to come from america
Jazz is art &art is jazz
Amen to that Bro
Thank you, Billie Taylor, for this extraordinary history walk of jazz music and some of the greatest musicians of all times. Including yourself!
. So many cultures have merged to create the tapestry of America. I am glad to be born here so I can enjoy it.
I do need a part two for this documentary. It was a good documentary.
There are five parts available on CZcams, but the other four are less than ten minutes long.
@@bfair80503 where can i find them?
Really blessed to have discovered blues in the early 70s, thank you thank you and thank you. To know blues and play jazz is a bless!
Dr. Taylor is amazing: his teaching style is impeccable and damn the man can play.
Dr. Billy Taylor summed up the early development of jazz in an entertaining and comprehensive way. His own piano examples with the trio are also great to hear and complement the story.
Great documentary, I love jazz music.
I'll come back to New Orleans again in the future to listen to jazz music only.
Bourbon street waits for me please.
American Music=Black Music
World Music=90% Black Music
The swing, rhythm, and perhaps melodies are largely from the black community in the US. The harmonies of jazz and modern pop are an evolution of European classical music.
I think it's a beautiful marriage. Both benefited from the partnering.
@@Garrett_Rowland ..lol lol...we just can't have anything to our selves. ..can we
@@mycolortv1 it's literally a mixture of European harmonies and African American blues that's why it never originated from Africa
It's always a shame when people come out with stuff like this. I'm fairly certain many of the jazz pioneers were also educated in the western musical tradition. I know that Scott Joplin and Louis Armstrong were. There's no denying the huge contribution that black people have made to music, but your comment only shows your ignorance. Perhaps you should broaden your horizons.
@@TheJTD1982 who are you replying to?
Awesome! I love stuff like this, It makes me so appreciative.
Me too I could watch these kinds of things for hours.
is part 2 on here? this is a great documentary to introduce jazz to my students.
Just look up the name but put pt2
It's called What is jazz - Part 2
Ken Farmer and x master, your 5 years late
@@aperipatetic2827 thats tuff
That’s why I’m here 🤓
Phenominal. Got plenty of new library additions now.
Yep,,They brought so much to the table. This is amazing information !
awesome video this video make me appreciate music so much of the past and the history of it. besides racism and oppression that blacks went through at that time they had the best most beautiful gorgeous music we can imagine of jazz blues early r&b etc... meaningful lyrics they play real instruments instead relying on a computer no auto tune no profanity. grandma's great grandma's and Grandparents were so fortunate in the music scene they had the best of the best music of all time history man besides the young people of today's generation we barley got anybody that really stands out a few exceptions of course but not many like decades ago.
Thank you abraham for contributing to my music assignment🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
They hated jazz just the way they now hates hip hop. White Americans connected jazz with drugs and now they connect hip hop with drugs. My respect and love for African Americans are huge.
Django Reinhardt -
Duke loved Django, an era I truly wish I could travel to...
The directions of his influence is overwhelming when realized.
...ask Willie Nelson
I'm writing about Jazz for an English project & this was really helpful :)
Splendid addition to the CZcams community!
This video showed a quick clip of James Reese Europe, but never mentioned his name.
He held the first Jazz concert ever with all Black Musicians at Carnegie Hall in 1912.
James Reese Europe was a Giant of Jazz whos shoulders all others have stood upon, Please look him up and his 369th Harlem Hell Fighters Band.
Yes and you may add he was murdered by one of his music men when he asked the guy to shape up or ship out!
Would it be possible to upload part 2? Great docu.
Great documentary!!
Great documentary
i remember all those ragtime songs played on auto pianos, so ahead of its time.
holy Christ, so much information!
Is there a part 2 of this? Where can I purchase a copy of the whole thing?
What jazz element does billy taylor demonstrate in the video by playing three cords? 12;13
Very well presented for someone like me who knows basic theory, but wants to learn the evolution of jazz
Thanks for posting.
This is incredibly valuable stuff.
This is a national treasure
anyone know where i can find the final example in that intro? around 1:23
I'm looking for the the part 2 of this video. Where can I find it?
I ended up buying it for $8 at Mediaoutlet.com. So good...
Been waiting 7 years for a pt2
Sad😥😥
8*
8 years nos
That was awesome, thanks for that. I'm looking forward to part 2, very fondly
very good documentary
Is there a part 2 of this documentary?
i wish i could play piano like that
Excelente
Wow! Thank you!
Excelent documentary
I still find this story over simplified and I don’t mean that as a pejorative. Jazz is so unbelievably unorthodox and paradigm shifting that it couldn’t be the work of one man or one music scene. I wish there was a way to have a video of the thousands of individual moments in quiet isolation that a man set his fingers down on the keys and played a diminished 6th or a dominant 13th and slowly that chaotic sound formed itself into a new ordered universe of sound. The fact that jazz came to be at all is truly remarkable thing. So beautiful. So weird. So not Bach.
what do you mean "so not bach" ?
@@hithere2426 Bach is very calculated and mathematical, jazz is more free form and improvisational, modal music that takes the rules of music and bends and breaks them to create something entirely new and outside of the box of traditional forms of music
@@NorrisSaiyan thank you for clarifying
What's the song that starts at 9:27
Hello, is there anyone who knows the original name of this documentary and its release year? Thanks.
does anyone know the title of this documentary? this would be a great resource for my research :)
The EAV History of Jazz.
Puerto Rican
Juan Tizol
Trombone / Caravan & Perdido
Pt 2:
czcams.com/video/-ehLgx9lQhI/video.html
how’s the song called at 7:00
It’s one in the morning and I have school tomorrow. How did I get here?
this was impressive
No part 2 ! What a friggin shame!😦
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaass
the history of jazz... is rooted in folk music.................................... WE WUZ KANGZ
Glad that I watched this, I wanted to learn a little bit about jazz as I like most types of music. Unfortunately I have come to the conclusion that I don’t like jazz at all.
Agreeed
May I respectfully ask the author of this valuable piece of Jazz History if there's a way to increase the definition of the images for clearer pictures?
I like to increase the size but it turns to a blur. 720 or 1080 works well.-
What a stupid request, you can’t expand on what’s Not there!
@@fabmanly1070 I asked politely; you are mentally deficient; zero IQ.!!!
My favorite are Fats Waller & Jelly Roll Morton.
I was under the impression that the cakewalk came before ragtime. . .
@Lynda Anthony the slaves were mocking the owners walking style lol
love the documentary.. hate the low quality of the audio
Hard to hear and understand what the narrator is saying. I tried to catch and google a couple musicians' names, but couldn't because the narrator's voice is weak, muffling, and difficult to understand with music playing in the background. Also, where can I watch part 2 of this video? I'm not able to find it on youtube.
Black people are amazing I salute you
Thank you☺️
Up untill Ella and Nat King Cole took over....lol
@@the_all_legend1473 watch a documentary by benyahah Israel called the jews of west Africa and a channel called truthunedited and Dante fortson
Does anyone nows where Part 2 is? Thanks!
+Anton Moiseenko did you ever get the link to part 2? I am looking for it and can't seem to find it. Please email me if you have it. fourmanc@masonohioschools.comThanks in advance
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pls share link
I need the link too
@@chadfourman8615 nope. Too bad
I just wish the sound on this was better.
Thanks
why is there no captions on this video, the volume is so low...
Thank you
J. Cole Taking Notes 📝
Oh my gosh where’s part 2??????
Das ist some good shit
Who is the Bass Player???!!!!
Everything is jazz. There is NOTHING but jazz. So you better like jazz.
America’s gift to the world is not its constitution but Jazz.
I am here for school too, but this is very interesting.
Lo mejor es desde 1916-1935
John Parker.
the Irish famine occurred in 1847. did you know that it was the young Turkish Sultan who sent in ships filled with grains from his storage in Poland and Turkey. He also convinced the Morocco ruler to come to Irelands assistance.
Get right man its 1845 smh my head
where's pt 2?
African people are truely talented ❤
MANTECA 1:11
nice glasses
Where does the music come from - we know.
But, where does the hum come from?
Dr Jazz
Search for Azerbaijani Jazz, your ears will thank you. The brilliant Vagif Mustafazade fused Azerbaijani mugham (complex Azeri folk music) with Africcan American jazz in the 60s and it's an undiscovered gem!
If it wasnt for jazz r&b and rock no hip hop
And yes, he's my Grandfather!
Who is your grandfather
@@isharagordon-bethel5089 James Reese Europe
Your granddad and Bert williams were the most important entertainers of all time and their names never come up.
u like jazz
Saying the swing sound came from mixing ragtime with blues is misleading. Mississippi John Hurt was mixing ragtime with blues to create his non-swing non-jazz in about 1912. The swing sound arose about 1929-1931, and blues influence had been very important in jazz long before that (the first publication of a 12-bar "Blues" was in New Orleans in 1908).
I agree with you, and the way you explained it is the way I understand it to be true
Who else watched this vid in history class 😂
I didn't watch it there
The Origins of Jazz? "The African Bushmen, the San, have been practicing jazz for millions of years."
www.hjs-jazz.de/?p=00212
im only here because of school to be 100% honest with u
I wish i was black
fuck no
I beg to differ.
Me, too, Cobain!
Being black is less about skin color and more about our heart
in our cultures, anyone is welcome. We'd rather you participate than just watch though
Saying ragtime was a "jazz style" is chronologically wrong, like saying blues as of 1939 was a "rock and roll style."
Ragtime is part of the chronological evolution of jazz..
Steve Cournane "Ragtime is part of the chronological evolution of jazz." Just as blues is part of the chronological evolution of rock and roll, if I understand right what you're try to say. But that misses the point of what I was trying to say. The quote "Original Introducer to the Stage of the Now Popular 'Rag Time'" is from 1896. Countless musicians who encountered "ragtime" music during more than two decades, before 1896 to after 1915, were not encountering jazz when they encountered it, which is why Elizabeth Cotten and David Miller e.g. didn't play jazz when they played a "rag." Musicians in New Orleans were collectively improvising (the most important characteristic of early jazz) on ragtime pieces as of about 1905, in a way that developed further and as of about 1913 or 1914 became known as "jazz," and only became popular nationally from 1916 on. Saying more than two decades of ragtime were a "jazz style" is even more chronologically off than saying the first decade-plus of soul music should be considered a subcategory of '70s-style "disco."
I really miss your point, there is nothing chronologically off, are you trying to say that ragtime came after jazz? I think not, so the chronology is correct. If you are trying to say that Ragtime had nothing to do with jazz that would be more understandable and in some ways logical, but then you go on to say that musicians in New Orleans were improvising collectively over rags. Thankyou for that, that is exactly why we call rag a part of the evolution of jazz. It is a very important part and along with Africa and the blues, is like the third part of the chain of a magical evolution that leads into syncopation (as Baby Dodds called it) or a more group concept of improvising , jass perhaps, or rag jazz as I have even read sometimes. I put the 1917 ODJB recordings in that bag. Many others would call that sacrilege. I think modern jazz started later and exactly where is hard to say, maybe the 1921 ODJB recording of St Louis Blues. King Olivers's recordings certainly upped the ante somewhat and lead to a more individual concept of improvising (what i would call true jazz), and then onwards into the swing era, bebop, etc. etc. It may be that you define evolution differently to myself and Billie Taylor. You see I even put John Phillip Sousa ( the march composer before ragtime) into that chain of evolution. All music for me is a fusion process, like language. It may not be so for you, therefore it would be impossible to resolve this discussion easily. take care
,
Steve Cournane No one is disputing that jazz had roots in ragtime. Ragtime was earlier than jazz. Because countless musicians who encountered "ragtime" music during more than two decades, before 1896 to after 1915, were not encountering jazz when they encountered it (which is why Elizabeth Cotten and David Miller e.g. didn't play jazz when they played a "rag"), it is misleading for the show to say ragtime is a "jazz style." As an analogy to that, Sam Cooke e.g. was a soul singer and he was not a singer of the later "disco" music. If a show said soul music was a type of disco music, that would be misleading in the same way (all early soul music was not disco music; all early ragtime was not jazz music).
Steve Cournane Ragtime was so popular in the nation generally during the years surrounding about 1903 that countless folk musicians were inspired to play relatively simple pieces that folk musicians routinely called rags, such as David Miller's "Cannon Ball Rag," John Hurt's "Salty Dog," Elizabeth Cotten's "Wilson Rag," Sylvester Weaver's "Guitar Rag," William Moore's "Ragtime Millionaire," and Charlie Patton's "Hang It On The Wall." These generally had basic approaches to chord progressions that were far more similar to published rags than to blues, and had the influence of ragtime in playing approaches. Blues only became a fad among folk musicians (the first people it became a fad among) in about 1909 or 1910, and many folk musicians learned to play rags before they had ever heard of "blues music," e.g. Hurt was playing for dances in about 1905 at about age 13. I have heard Ossman. I agree with Ed Berlin's findings that "ragtime songs" with vocals were considered ragtime. When folk musicians played a blues they were "country blues" musicians (so-called "country blues" is a concept popularized about six decades into the history of folk blues to describe folk blues, e.g. the folk blues by Furry Lewis and Rabbit Brown who lived in cities). And when they played a rag a few minutes later, they were folk ragtime musicians.
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Shame the sound quality is so poor
This video is incorrect. The way that it is structured makes it seem like Ragtime was founded before the blues which is inaccurate.Blues gave birth their birth after 1870's