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Jazz Age

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A few of the words

ARMSTRONG
Louis Armstrong recorded his landmark Hot Five sessions in Chicago in 1925, and his cornet solos rewrote what jazz could say.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ELLINGTON
Duke Ellington's orchestra took up a residency at Harlem's Cotton Club in 1927, broadcasting his lush, swinging sound coast to coast on live radio.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
RAGTIME
Ragtime's syncopated piano style, popularised by Scott Joplin in the 1900s, laid much of the rhythmic groundwork that jazz would build on through the 1920s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SCAT
Scat singing, improvising with nonsense syllables as if the voice were a horn, became a jazz signature, with Louis Armstrong among its earliest and most dazzling practitioners.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About Jazz Age

In smoky clubs and glittering ballrooms from New Orleans to Chicago, jazz crackled out of cornets and clarinets and changed popular music for ever. Bandleaders such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong turned improvisation into high art, coaxing melodies that felt both wild and perfectly inevitable. The rhythm was in everything, the shuffle of dancing feet, the clatter of drums, the joyful chaos of a full brass section in full flight.

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