Since I barely have the music sense, listening and writing about jazz music was my biggest headache from the beginning of class. It is hard to use words to describe wordless music that is being heard. Yet I still learned the origin and the evolution of jazz music, its African American background and the different style it changes into.
The videos playing in the class were useful to better understand the jazz music: by going over Billy Taylor’s What Is Jazz, I realized the composition of a jazz band and the different role of the instruments, how did each of them sound like; by listening to various style of jazz music, I started to sense the differences in rhythm, melody and even mood between different period jazz music: New Orleans, Bebop,
The videos playing in the class were useful to better understand the jazz music: by going over Billy Taylor’s What Is Jazz, I realized the composition of a jazz band and the different role of the instruments, how did each of them sound like; by listening to various style of jazz music, I started to sense the differences in rhythm, melody and even mood between different period jazz music: New Orleans, Bebop,