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The twentieth century is the decade of experimentation and wild discoveries. It is the decade when Al Capone terrorizes humanity, when the Ku Klux Klan parades down Pennsylvania Avenue. The era when the automobile stars in the runway, when Babe Ruth swings back baseball’s popularity and when sheiks and shebas bash their dazzling selves to the public. In music, 1920s is the century of the exhilarating and yet relaxing music of jazz, jazz, jazz. …

…Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band and other African American musicians flourish during the twentieth century. They rise to the top, with fame and success, and for the lucky ones, with money. The Harlem brings a lot of dollars as well. The influence of jazz is just amazing and the phonograph makes it even better. White Americans begin to embrace and imitate African American stars and with music, the nation marks it’s own rule, Jazz.