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  2. 1920s in jazz - Wikipedia

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    Popular numbers in the 1920s were pop hits such as "Sweet Georgia Brown", "Dinah" and "Bye Bye Blackbird". The first jazz artist to be given some liberty in choosing his material was Louis Armstrong , whose band helped popularize many of the early standards in the 1920s and 1930s.

  3. Roaring Twenties - Wikipedia

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    Dance clubs became enormously popular in the 1920s. Their popularity peaked in the late 1920s and reached into the early 1930s. Dance music came to dominate all forms of popular music by the late 1920s. Classical pieces, operettas, folk music, etc., were all transformed into popular dancing melodies to satiate the public craze for dancing.

  4. 1920 in music - Wikipedia

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    Top Popular Recordings 1920 [ edit ] The following songs achieved the highest positions in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 and record sales reported on the " Discography of American Historical Recordings " website during 1920: [ 3 ] Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference.

  5. List of 1920s jazz standards - Wikipedia

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    Popular numbers in the 1920s were pop hits such as "Sweet Georgia Brown", "Dinah" and "Bye Bye Blackbird". The first jazz artist to be given some liberty in choosing his material was Louis Armstrong , whose band helped popularize many of the early standards in the 1920s and 1930s.

  6. List of big bands - Wikipedia

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    While the Big Band Era suggests that big bands flourished for a short period, they have been a part of jazz music since their emergence in the 1920s when white concert bands adopted the rhythms and musical forms of small African-American jazz combos.

  7. Jazz Age - Wikipedia

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    The 1930s belonged to popular swing big bands, in which some virtuoso soloists became as famous as the band leaders. Key figures in developing the "big" jazz band included bandleaders and arrangers Count Basie , Cab Calloway , Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey , Duke Ellington , Benny Goodman , Fletcher Henderson , Earl Hines , Harry James , Jimmie ...

  8. Category:Musical groups established in 1920 - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Musical groups established in 1920" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  9. Timeline of music in the United States (1920–1949) - Wikipedia

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    Lulubelle and Scotty begin their career with the National Barn Dance; they will soon become popular music staples, and the first major husband-wife duo in country music history. [337] The Gibson guitar company begins producing electric guitars with the ES-150, a Spanish guitar, introduced this year or the following year.