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Welcome to the Pleasantdale Middle School 7th grade jazz website. Here you'll find info on jazz in the news, links
to jazz websites, downloadable jazz audio and other interactive treats.
Why is it called "JAZZ"?
According to Arnold Loyacano, the word jazz had different origins. Loyacano was in Tom Brown's band, which in 1915, was
the first white band to ever go to Chicago and play jazz.
They were playing in a hotel which previously had a string quartet for entertainment. Brown's band had been used to playing
on the back of a wagon, which meant that they had to play loud and were really incapable of playing soft.
The crowd's reaction was to hold their ears and yell, "Too loud!" Loyacano says that was when people started calling
his music "jazz." "The way Northern people figured it out, our music was loud, clangy, boisterous, like you'd say, ~Where
did you get that jazzy suit?" meaning loud or fancy.
Some people called it "jass." Later when the name struck, it was spelled with a "z," "jazz."
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