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The Jazz Age was the period of time between the end of World War I and the Great Depression.
Jazz music was born around 1895 in New Orleans.

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Women began going to bars, drinking, smoking and wearing more revealing clothing.
Women at this period also had the right to finally vote.

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A riff is a musical pattern or phrase that is repeated by one voice while a soloist improvises a melody. The riff increased the popularity and importance of the saxophone to jazz music.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's book the "Great Gatsby" was based on the Jazz Age.
He is the one who actually named this time in history "The Jazz Age".

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"The period of the Jazz Age is associated with sophistication, modernism, exuberance, consumerism and decadence and the introduction of jazz music".

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African American jazz culture has an amazing influence upon popular culture in the 1920s due to the availability of these recordings to white, upper middle class listeners.

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he status of African Americans was elevated, due to the popularity of this distinctly African American music. For the first time in American history, what was previously considered "bottom culture" rose to the top and became a highly desired commodity in society.

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Jazz bands often played on steamboats traveling on the Mississippi River to entertain travelers. Famous jazz singers include Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Nat "King" Cole, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong.

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Many new forms of music came from jazz such as funk, rock and roll, and hip hop.

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Jazz music is a combination of Ragtime, marching band music and blues.
Jazz brought dozens of new dance steps to America.