Music of Chicago

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As the largest non-coastal United States city, Chicago, Illinois was the major center for music in the midwestern United States, especially in the early 1900s, when the "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South into the industrial cities brought traditional jazz and blues music to Chicago, resulting in the the urban variants Chicago blues and "Chicago-style" Dixieland jazz.In the past few years Chicago has also had a growing Hip-Hop and Rap industry.

Contents 1 History 2 Blues 3 Jazz 3.1 The Chicago style 4 Hip Hop/Rap Style Music of Chicago 5 Chicago Jazz Festival 6 See Also 7 References 8 External links

[edit] History

Prior to the 1929 stock market crash, Chicago was central to the music industry, and many of the important early jazz recordings were made in the area,^[1] all prohibition-era forms of jazz could be found in Chicago speakeasys as far back as the early 1920s.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Blues

Further information: Chicago blues

Chicago Type Blues uses a variety of insturments in a more rock and roll type of music, insturments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes saxophone or harmonica which is generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi. The music developed mainly as a result of the "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South into the industrial cities of the North such as Chicago in particular, in the first half of the twentieth century.

[edit] Jazz

[edit] The Chicago style

Further information: Dixieland#Chicago style

The distinctive Chicago style of jazz originated in southern musicians moving North after World War I, bringing the with them the New Orleans "Dixieland" or sometimes called hot jazz. styles.^[2] Louis Armstrong's recordings with his Chicago-based Hot Seven band (which included members of his New Orleans Hot Five) came out during this period. This style of playing was adopted by white musicians who favored meters of 2 instead of 4.^[1] Emphasis on solos, faster tempos, string bass and guitar (replacing the traditional tuba and banjo) also distinguish Chicago-style playing from Dixieland.

Important musicians in the Chicago style include Bix Beiderbecke, Eddie Condon, Bud Freeman, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Frank Teschemacher, and Frank Trumbauer.^[1]

[edit] Hip Hop/Rap Style Music of Chicago

The Hip-Hop/Rap Music of Chicago or sometimes called Ch-town in the rap industry. Started to emerge on the scene in 2004 with Kanye West, who after his first album was nominated for Grammy Award for Album of the Year and won Best Rap Album. And continued with Lupe Fiasco in 2006, with his album Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor which was number one for the top selling Rap album. And in 2007, Yung Berg landed in with his hit single "Sexy Lady".All these albums began to expand Chicago's Hip Hop and Rap music of Chicago.

[edit] Chicago Jazz Festival

Main article: Chicago Jazz Festival

A few years after Louis Armstrong's death in 1971, on August 28, 1978 The Annual Chicago Jazz Festival began.In 2008 it will be held in the Millennium Park.

[edit] See Also

• Music of New York City
• Music of New Jersey
• Music of New Orleans

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Chicago Jazz Archive. The University of Chicago Library. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
• Spink, George. Chicago Jazz. Retrieved on 2008-03-22. Book reviews