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How did jazz develop in Shanghai during the prosperous period?
1934, the Yue Ming Society, as the cradle of China pop music, resumed its work after a year's interruption. Under the call of Li Jinhui, the original cast returned to the embrace of Yue Ming society, but many famous actors have signed contracts with film companies. At this time, due to the rapid development of the film industry, many singers and dancers take film performance as their career center, and film episodes have become the most important channel for song popularity. Coupled with Li Jinhui's poor financial management, Yue Ming Club once again made ends meet, and Li Jinhui spared no expense to fill the hole with his royalties. In the end, he not only failed to save the Yue Ming Club, but also suffered the blow of family breakdown (his wife Xu Lai left). Since the completion of the 1932 paramount gate, the ballroom has gradually become fashionable, with band singers resident. 1934, at the invitation of Du, Li Jinhui formed a jazz band composed entirely of China musicians for the banquet hall of the Yangtze River Hotel, which was the first China jazz band in China. Li Jinhui also provided the band with music scores, songs and dance music performed by singers. At that time, Li Jinhui devoted himself to the study of jazz. He once wrote many popular songs such as Express in jazz style. A Duke Ellington in the United States also wrote a tune similar to Express. Scholar andrew jones thinks that Li Jinhui copied American jazz, but after textual research, he found that Li Jinhui did it one year earlier than Duke Ellington. Li Jinhui's adapted pop songs are particularly popular with dancers, so many dance halls come to Li Jinhui for band music. Li Jinhui agreed one by one, and some didn't even accept it. At that time, he enjoyed a high reputation in the China Band in the Shanghai Ballroom. Since then, a large number of singers have grown up in the ballroom, which has officially become another channel for the spread of pop songs besides radio, records and movies, and also another channel for singers to become famous. Ouyang Feiying, for example, started singing in Yue Xian by accident and embarked on the road of professional singer.