Jazz during the Crazy Years by Barnabé Devaux https://padlet.com/barnabe_devaux/lrdi6nns2k42 en-us 2018-03-25 16:17:45 UTC 2025-10-09 12:14:32 UTC hello@padlet.com barnabe_devaux https://padlet.com/barnabe_devaux/lrdi6nns2k42/wish/245845416 2018-03-25 16:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/barnabe_devaux/lrdi6nns2k42/wish/245845416 barnabe_devaux https://padlet.com/barnabe_devaux/lrdi6nns2k42/wish/245867877 From 1920 to 1933, Prohibition in the United States banned the sale of alcoholic drinks, resulting in illicit speakeasies which became lively venues of the "Jazz Age", hosting popular music including current dance songs, novelty songs, and show tunes.

Jazz began to get a reputation as being immoral, and many members of the older generations saw it as threatening the old cultural values and promoting the new decadent values of the Roaring 20s.

The media too began to denigrate jazz: The New York Times, for example, used stories and headlines to denigrate the jazz.

In 1919, Kid Ory began playing in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where in 1922 they became the first black jazz band of New Orleans origin to make recordings.

That year also saw the first recording by Bessie Smith, the most famous of the 1920s blues singers.

Chicago meanwhile was developing the new "Hot Jazz", where King Oliver joined Bill Johnson. Bix Beiderbecke formed The Wolverines in 1924.

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