Jazz and the Jazz Age

Jazz Music and the Jazz Age

Jazz Music flourished between 1920 and 1930 - the Roaring Twenties, becoming the most acceptable form of popular music, so much so that the decade was named the Jazz Age.

But what does the word jazz mean and where did it come from? In his latest work Jazz and the Jazz Age, jazz historian Daniel Hardie traces the beginnings of jazz from roots in New Orleans to its appearance in Chicago in 1915 to its domination of popular music in the 1920s and the wild extravagance of prohibition era Chicago and beyond.