The New Orleans jazz bands of the early 1920s usually consisted of a cornet, clarinet, and trombone with a rhythm section.  Between 1917 and 1923, racism, prejudice, and violence re-emerged against New Orlean’s Creole and African American population, forcing many jazz musicians to relocate.This helped the spread of jazz music throughout the United States.  Jazz musicians fled to Chicago, New York, and even Kansas City! Chicago was the most popular destination for early jazz musicians. In Kansas City, the New Orleans jazz sound flourished the longest; well into the 1930s. I liked this site because it was full of information, but they did a good job at summarizing major facts instead of filling the page with irrelevant information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s_in_jazz
The period from the end of WW1 until the start of the great depression in 1929 is known as the “jazz age.” Jazz had become popular music in America, but the older generations considered the music immoral and threatening to old cultural values. jazz bands typically consisted of seven to twelve musicians. Chicago's importance as a center of jazz music started to decrease toward the end of the 1920s New York taking their place.In the beginning of jazz, most record companies decided what songs would be recorded by their artists. I liked this site because it provided a summary of major events that happened each year during the 1920’s, helping me see what events happened when and why they were important.

This picture shows how jazz music made its way through the United States during the 1920s. Jazz grew from the southern United States to one of the most widely recognized musical styles in the world. Just in the one hundred years that jazz has been alive, it has shaped our country and the world in ways few art forms have. Jazz music is a story of movement and migration. Most importantly jazz is a story of a place. Each place jazz has stopped along the map is an example of how the place influenced the form of jazz it created. Jazz’s stop in Kansas has had a huge impact on our state today!

This video below shows the most popular dances to jazz music during the 1920’s. To me, their dances look really goofy and weird, but it looks like they are having fun! During the Roaring Twenties, young Americans responded to criticism from their elders by expanding on all of the"violations," of modesty. Young people using more outrageous slang, jazzier music, and dance. Girls wore shorter and flimsier dresses and shorter hair. The work the suffragettes put in paid off when the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920.  The separation of the 19th century was broken and Flappers redefined modern womanhood along with jazz music and dance.

 Roaring Twenties: called "roaring" because of the exuberant, freewheeling popular culture of the decade. The Roaring Twenties was a time when many people defied Prohibition, indulged in new styles of dancing and dressing, and rejected many traditional moral standards.

Flappers: Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion

Jazz: a style of dance music popular in the 1920s

Forms of entertainment: Commercial Radio (by 1929 more than 800 stations reached more than 10 million homes), Nickelodeons ($.05 / sound added to movies), Dancing, Drinking, Speakeasies, Jazz

Speakeasy: Illegal bar that served liquor during Prohibition

Harlem: an African American section of NYC. Many AA writers and artists gathered in Harlem

Blues: style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound

Bebop: A style of music developed by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and others in the early 1940s and characterized by challenging harmonies and heavily syncopated rhythms that demanded a new standard for instrumental virtuosity and impacted every subsequent style of jazz.

Ensemble: A group of more than two musicians.

minstrel show: A variety act of song, dance, comedy, and theater popular in the 19th century and performed largely by white actors in blackface.