Jazz in the 1920's

I'm going to go with a jazz playlist because a lot of the websites I checked out talked a lot about how jazz spread from way down South to other areas of the country and became really popular and impacted a lot of the other music that was being written and performed at the time.


Canal Street Blues (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band) 1923
Yes Sir that's my baby (Carlton Coon and Joe Sanders) 1925
When my sugar walks down the street (Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards)1925

Original Jelly Roll Blues (Jelly Roll Morton) 1926

Hotter than that (Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five) 1927

Beale Street Blues (Jelly Roll Morton) 1927

Speakeasy Blues (King Oliver) 1928

After you've gone (Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra) 1929

Stephen Crane - In heaven

In heaven,
Some little blades of grass
Stood before God.
"What did you do?"
Then all save one of the little blades
Began eagerly to relate
The merits of their lives.
This one stayed a small way behind,
Ashamed.
Presently, God said,
"And what did you do?"
The little blade answered, "Oh my Lord,
Memory is bitter to me,
For, if I did good deeds,
I know not of them."
Then God, in all His splendor,
Arose from His throne.
"Oh, best little blade of grass!" He said.

I thought this was interesting on the view of God and religion by this Stephen Crane, who, despite religious family, rejected conventional religion for his own "ally/co-worker" vision of God, but still comes through in this poem as following closely a Biblical teaching- that we should not speak of our own deeds but know God sees them all. I think he is implying that we should be humble with our works and "forget" them and let them be between us and God, who knows them without being told by us, instead of flaunting them around in front of everyone for the whole world to see.

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/stephencrane/11822