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Was a piano style that combines dance with the banjo  technique.

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Was the expression of the slaves pain and suffering and the foundation for the first jazz ever.

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My Top 20 Favorite Blues Songs Song List: Sylvester Weaver - Guitar Rag 1927 [ 0:13 ] Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night 1927 [ 0:41 ] Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues 1928 [ 1:10 ] Son House - Death Leter Blues 1930 [ 1:37 ] Robert

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Style was the early imitation that the white musicians of New Orleans jazz.

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Confederate Song - I Wish I Was In Dixie Land (with lyrics)

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Was the style of one of the most charismatic

jazz musicians of all times, LOUIS ARMSTRONG.

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Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (Lyrics)

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Scott Joplin was undeniably a complete badass. He was born in Texas to parents who were former slaves, and he taught himself piano in the home where his mother worked. While young, he received piano instruction in the European style from a German teacher: Julius Weiss. (Tarantino, what are you doing here?)

Once grown up and seeking a career in music, the ragtime composer struggled against a society which refused to give him the recognition he deserved. The 1800's were not a good time for African Americans trying to make ends meet in the world of popular music. Despite this, Scott Joplin took the world by storm. He published the "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1899, and it took off across the country like a wildfire. It's said that Joplin's rag was the first piece of music to sell one million copies, which is impressive, considering that the telephone had only been around for twenty years and the internet hadn't even entered folks' wildest dreams. He later went on to publish "The Entertainer." Familiar? Joplin wrote that shit too. At this point, I picture Joplin sitting on a throne at the summit of a pile of grand pianos making it rain greenbacks on his stable of hoes. Sadly, this was not the case. Joplin's contract only allotted him a one percent royalty, so even though he was pitching red-hot singles, he barely made enough to live on.

Later on in his life, he sought success by writing an opera called "Treemonisha," based on his mother's efforts to educate him despite their circumstances, but the piece went unnoticed. Although The American Musician and Art Journal called the work the most American opera ever written, critics would not believe a piece written by an African American could compare to traditional opera. His opera failed to gain steam, and he was never able to find enough backing to stage it properly. Joplin died poor and discouraged, but on the upside, he probably didn't care, since he went insane from syphilis before the end.

Bibliography:
http://www.scottjoplin.org/biography/

Berlin, Edward A. "Scott Joplin: Brief Biographical Sketch"

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History's Baddasses of Music: Scott Joplin

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Scott Joplin was undeniably a complete badass. He was born in Texas to parents who were former slaves, and he taught himself piano in the home where his mother worked. While young, he received piano instruction in the European style from a German teacher: Julius Weiss. (Tarantino, what are you doing here?)

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glenn miller

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Was a trumpet player and singer. His recordings set the foundations for later jazz.

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1986 -1991 Final years

Is when he played

his final live performance

Was an American

jazz saxophonist

and composer, is

considered

one of the best

high saxophone

xgfh players in the history

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Scott Joplin, was famous for his ragtime

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With Glenn we enter the world of swing and the big band.In the mood we find some of the most famous orchestral riffs of jazz music.

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From 1930 the swing took place (jazz is marketed and groups grow to become a Big Band, a great band in a “show” plan, swing dominated dance music and cinema),bebop (jazz of type experimental, which broke with the previous dance style),cool jazz (jazz “cool”, reaction to the intellectual style of bebop),free jazz (close to contemporany music and away from the traditional elements of jazz), and fusion (mix of jazz with other styles, such as rock or flamenco).

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Jazz emerged in the black population.It was a combination of musical elements present there: the African-American tradition, spirituals and music of the white population and one of the characteristics of jazz is improvisation.