The period between 19, generally referred to as the вЂњ Swing EraвЂќ, saw small, soloist-plus-ensemble bands of Armstrong and others (now called вЂњcombosвЂќ), largely give way to big bands, consisting of about 18 musicians.Д«ig names from this period, in which вЂњSwing was KingвЂќ, include Duke Ellington (thought of by some as the greatest composer in all of jazz history), Count Basie, Woody Herman, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman, who was the first to perform with a racially integrated band in 1938.Д«efore the ban, vocalists were special soloists with big bands, and usually sang a verse or two in the middle of the song. He altered the performance practice of jazz from the traditional texture in which multiple musicians play melody lines simultaneously, to what we now recognise as the individualist, soloist-plus-ensemble format. That migration, combined with recording technology and Prohibition, brought jazz to an unprecedented number of black and non-black audiences.Дuring this time Louis Armstrong was at the forefront of jazz.

In 1917 the cultural hub known as Storyville was closed, which coincided with The Great Migration, in which more than a million African Americans travelled from rural communities in the South to major cities between 19.

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