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    History of Jazz

    Feb 27, 2020 2 minutes

    1911

    Alexander’s Ragtime Band 1911

    Irving Berlin publishes Alexander’s Ragtime Band. The piece is a huge hit in the US and UK, but is scorned by some ragtime purists. The following year, the show Hullo, Ragtime! premieres. Ragtime becomes a powerful musical force, a key genre in the development of jazz.

    Introducing the Hot Five 1925

    Twenty-four-year-old jazz trumpet player Louis Armstrong forms the Hot Five, recording 24 records over

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