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title: "Jazz Age Peaks with Duke Ellington"
year: 1927
country: "United States"
canonical: "https://recap.at/1927/duke-ellington-cotton-club"
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recapType: "global_event"
startDate: "1927-01-01"
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# Jazz Age Peaks with Duke Ellington

> Duke Ellington's breakthrough performances and recordings at the Cotton Club crystallized the Jazz Age and redefined American music's global cultural reach.

## Summary

The Jazz Age was a period from 1920 to the early 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz. Originating in New Orleans as mainly sourced from the culture of African Americans, jazz played a significant part in wider cultural changes in this period, and its influence on popular culture continued long afterwards.

## Sources

- [Jazz Age](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Age) - Wikipedia

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Canonical: https://recap.at/1927/duke-ellington-cotton-club