And All That Jazz - 1920s

The 1920s in pop culture was defined as the jazz age with New Orleans musicians moving to the Chicago scene and soon to New York.  Prohibition helped fuel the new energy.  Some, though, felt the jazz genre that sparked such a craze as the Charleston and flapper style went against cultural values and morals.

Popular orchestral band leaders and musicians include Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter...to name a few.

Popular 1920s jazz songs include -

"Sweet Georgia Brown"

"Dinah"

"Honeysuckle Rose"

"Ain't Misbehavin'"

"The Man I Love"

...to name a few.

E. Estelle Zander was born on January 5, 1929.  She was born into a modest and hardworking family with both devoted parents and older brother caring for his little sister.  He had trouble pronouncing "Estelle" and kept saying "Dell".  It stuck and from that moment on, her family and friends referred to her as Dell.  Their parents were proud to be Swedish-American citizens in a time where the United States melting pot fought the same causes - the Great Depression and World War II.

To me, she is Grandma, my soulmate and best friend.  She was the spiritual love of my life.  I was her kid.  She was my "talk to Grandma" when I was having a rough day or mental episode.  Grandma's married name was Flosi and her late husband, my Grandpa, is my friend even though he passed long before I was born.  His spirit met me as his first grandchild.  His spirit visited me twice in a soothing way, not spooky.

Today is Grandma's day on a topic fitting well with Set List and hope in history's generation lived then, honored now, and to not be repeated in the future.

"What Is This Thing Called Love?" - Cole Porter, 1929