Teach Yourself Jazz - online guidebook

For the beginning player, with sheet music samples

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	NEW ORLEANS                             31 heard it. Later on, in the commercialised 'big-band' era, the Savoy Orpheans were to produce a blues 'gimmick' by using two pianos tuned a semitone Example 3 apart. But such mechanical and mathematical devices were temporary novelties that had little to do with the vocal and personal expression of real jazz. The rhythmic background to these melodic lines was provided, at first, by banjo or guitar, tuba, and drums. The piano was a later importation. Obviously, the piano was a far too elaborate and expensive instrument to find its way into the hard beginnings. The piano began to come into its own along with the other elaborate and expensive fittings of the houses of pleasure in Storeyville. Storeyville Without a mention of Storeyville, no picture of New Orleans would be complete. This district gave a doubtful immortality to the name of Alderman