Musicians and Artist

2. Musicians and Artist • The Harlem Renaissance consisted of many great musicians and writers such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Edward Hopper. • Harlem was a popular place in which people will go and listen to Jazz. • Clubs such as the cotton Club, Connie’s Inn, and the Saragota Club where for the rich and famous. • Most of the audiences where white, while most of the musicians where black. • Artist of the 1920’s showed the nations rough side, by paintings.

3. Duke Ellington • April 29 1899- May 24 1974 • Born in Lincolton, North Carolina • He began playing piano at age seven • Composer pianist and band leader • Ellington was associated with a place called the cotton club in Harlem • The band he played for was called the cotton club orchestra

4. Duke Ellington • Ellington’s first long recording was his composition called “Creole Rhapsody” • He wrote at least 1000 pieces in his career, music for concerts, films, and operas • Ellington and his orchestra frequently toured the U.S. in the 1930’s • He began his spiritual themes with his concert of sacred music in 1965 • Duke participated in the civil rights acts from the 1940’s and on

5. Louis Armstrong • Born August 4, 1901 • One of the Most famous Jazz Musician of the 20th Century • Known as a Cornet and Trumpet player • Learned how to play the Cornet when he was in reform school • At the end of his career he became one of the best known vocalist, and most influential in Jazz • Played in bands such as Marable, Kid Ory’s, and Zutty Singleton’s • Married Lillian Hardin a piano player and arranger for the Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band in which Louis Played in. • In 1925 Louis recorded his five “hot records” under his name.

6. Louis Armstrong • By 1929 Louis was becoming very famous by touring with the Hot chocolates and appearing in the Luis Russell orchestra. • White radio announcer refused to mention Armstrong on the air and announce a free concert that Louis was giving for the city • Louis also toured in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. • The number one single in 1963 “Hello Dolly” by Armstrong knocked the Beatles out of the top Charts. • On July 6th 1971 Armstrong died in his sleep in his home in Queen, New York.

7. Edward Hopper • Born on July 22, 1882 in Nyack, New York • Made solitude and introspection themes for his paintings • Came from a middle class family • Worked on his father’s store after school • Decided to become a painter on 1899,his parents persuaded him to first study Commercial Illustration to secure him a better future. • On 1990 he attended New York School of art for 7 years. • On October 1906 Hopper left to study in Paris, France

8. Edward Hopper • 1913 Hopper had his first sale at the Armory Show in New York. • 1920 he had his first solo exibition • Jo Nivison Hopper’s wife was a model for his paintings • His Compositions where realist and use of convert symbolism • In 1925 Hopper realease his most mature picture “The House by the Railroad”. Which its theme was the loneliness of travel. • He liked to paint public places where people gathered, but still he liked to display the theme of loneliness • He died isolated in 1967.

9. The House By the Rail Road Summer Interior Edward Hopper’s Paintings

10. Presented by: Liliana Saligan Christofer Estis David Avalos