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1. Describe Jazz and the Blues during the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz ws made from rhythms, blues, and ragtime to produce a unique sound.P opular jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, and singers such as the jazz and blues great, Bessie Smith.And Blues and Jazz also was a way to pass time and it was a way for people to play with popular musicians like Duke Ellington.

2. Explain what type of musical entertainment was found in Harlem during the Renaissances we? Jazz dance club adn jazz dances, another entertainment was rent parties which where overcrowded and poverty-stricken places in the town which where all at one of the theaters in the town .

3. Describe the life and influence of the following musicians of the Harlem Renaissance?

Duke Ellington life and influence was that he was considered as one of the world’s greatest composers and musicians. He played for the royalty and for the common people and he has been awarded several times with great honor. Duke was a person known by everyone in the United States, he had played in many states and later he performed all around the world. People love to listen to his music. Ellington was a charmer, “a sweet man with a sweet tooth”, who wrote sweet music. All these characteristics made him a wonderful person with excellent values.

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Bessie Smith life and influence was that she was major influence on the development of the blues in the early twentieth century, Bessie Smith was given a challenging start to her life, raised in poverty in the then still-segregated South. In the fall of 1937 Smith accepted the role of featured performer with the Broadway Rastus show for a tour of the South. In the early hours of September 26th, while en route to Mississippi after a performance in Memphis, the singer and her current partner Richard Morgan crashed into a large truck parked on the shoulder of an unlit road; Morgan was largely unaffected by the accident.

4. These are the Websites i used 1.[] 2. http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/rwelker/Figures.htm 3.http://www.tcnj.edu/~messmer2/index.htm 4.http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzpoems2.html

Photos 1.http://www.nndb.com/people/217/000022151/ 2.http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/performers/Other_Performers/Duke_Ellington.htm