Music reflects culture. It is a central means by which a group asserts its relationship to past generation, distinguishes insiders from outsiders, and addresses the future. Music have been always part of our live, our culture, ourselves. Music have become the symphony and rhythms that motivate us to continue when we have fallen or encountered difficulties. When we are sad, cool, hungry, depressive or even happy, we humans just think of one thing, hear that song, that special song that would make us feel better, that song that will give us a happy day. Throughout history whether it has been as a ritual, an emotional release, religious reasons, or just for listening pleasure, music have acquired the first place in our lives. We use music as to express ourselves, tell stories, our feelings, and to let other get into our thoughts. Music is what distinguish us, one from others, it is the symphony that has passed through generation by ours ancestors and has been entrusted to us to pass it to the new generation that follows.
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In 1964, Thelonious Monk, one of the pioneers of the be-bop and perhaps jazz’s greatest composer, was asked in an interview to define jazz. Usually monk dislike questions but this time he couldn’t miss a beat: “New York, man. You can feel it. It’s around in the air….” Be-bop was something labeled as “New yok Jazz,” and it is, in fact, the only major school of jazz to which the city can lay proprietary claim. The purpose of bop’s irregular phrasings side sliding harmonies and whirlwind space, was, in Kenny Clarke’s words, to “raise the standards of musicianship,” to tell people, “Whatever you go into, go into it intelligently”. In that time jazz was the music that was killing it and was the music that represented New Yok city while in others placed they had others type of
In 1964, Thelonious Monk, one of the pioneers of the be-bop and perhaps jazz’s greatest composer, was asked in an interview to define jazz. Usually monk dislike questions but this time he couldn’t miss a beat: “New York, man. You can feel it. It’s around in the air….” Be-bop was something labeled as “New yok Jazz,” and it is, in fact, the only major school of jazz to which the city can lay proprietary claim. The purpose of bop’s irregular phrasings side sliding harmonies and whirlwind space, was, in Kenny Clarke’s words, to “raise the standards of musicianship,” to tell people, “Whatever you go into, go into it intelligently”. In that time jazz was the music that was killing it and was the music that represented New Yok city while in others placed they had others type of