In New Orleans the origin of black population was diverse, being most of the time the western part of Africa or the Caribbean. It is in this diverse cultural context in which originated the appearance of musical styles as diverse as Jazz, Cajun music, Zydeco and blues.
In many areas of the South of America the drumbeat was prohibited by law, in places like Georgia and it was forbidden the use of any musical instrument for part of the slaves. However in the early 19th century music festivals with drums and African dancers were organized frequently in New Orleans in Congo Square , Memphis, Kansas and Dallas. The musical instruments used were percussion instruments similar to those used in African music. The slaves used to have Sunday off and …show more content…
Influenced by classical music, marches, spirituals, work songs, ragtime, blues and popular music of the time, jazz was already a particular form of music when its documentation began. It was probably that Jazz was initially interpreted by musicians without proper education at all, they used to play in marching bands in New Orleans.
Music in these times was an important part of everyday life since at least 1890’s, with brass bands that were hired to play in parades, funerals, dances and parties. Those kinds of musicians didn’t know how to read music properly so they used to add some variations to the music they played.
The famous cornet player Buddy Bolden was the first to be considered a Jazz musician, and formed his band in 1895, this is the date you could use to name it a symbolic date of birth of Jazz. There’s no documentation of Jazz during the next two decades, although it is known that Jazz progressed at a slow pace. Freddie Keppard succeeded cornets Bolden as the most prestigious in New Orleans, but was quickly overtaken by King Oliver .
Although some New Orleans musicians traveled north, jazz remained strictly a typical musical expression of New Orleans until the …show more content…
The musical revolution has different roots and the racial issue was one of them, the white musicians led the movement and black musicians had been separated from there. Jazz previously had been mixed with different kinds of music like the funk, blues and soul, but until then it had not been done with styles like rock, traditionally dominated by white musicians, the New York revolution changed everything. The second half of the 1990s experienced a revival of music for big bands, a trend that originated in the previous decade, in the work of musicians such as bassist Saheb Sarbib or cornet Butch Morris. Keyboardist Wayne Horvitz developed his idea of progressive jazz chamber, while the veteran multi-instrumentalist Marty Ehrlich picked the influence of traditional jazz.
Before the end of the last decade of the twentieth century, appeared on the scene in New York a new generation of young musicians that found in improvisation their key element of their music: the harpist Zeena Parkins, flutist Robert Dick, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and guitarist Alan Licht. Others musicians like the pianist Uri Caine and trumpeter Dave Douglas explored the relationship between hard bop, free jazz and classical
In many areas of the South of America the drumbeat was prohibited by law, in places like Georgia and it was forbidden the use of any musical instrument for part of the slaves. However in the early 19th century music festivals with drums and African dancers were organized frequently in New Orleans in Congo Square , Memphis, Kansas and Dallas. The musical instruments used were percussion instruments similar to those used in African music. The slaves used to have Sunday off and …show more content…
Influenced by classical music, marches, spirituals, work songs, ragtime, blues and popular music of the time, jazz was already a particular form of music when its documentation began. It was probably that Jazz was initially interpreted by musicians without proper education at all, they used to play in marching bands in New Orleans.
Music in these times was an important part of everyday life since at least 1890’s, with brass bands that were hired to play in parades, funerals, dances and parties. Those kinds of musicians didn’t know how to read music properly so they used to add some variations to the music they played.
The famous cornet player Buddy Bolden was the first to be considered a Jazz musician, and formed his band in 1895, this is the date you could use to name it a symbolic date of birth of Jazz. There’s no documentation of Jazz during the next two decades, although it is known that Jazz progressed at a slow pace. Freddie Keppard succeeded cornets Bolden as the most prestigious in New Orleans, but was quickly overtaken by King Oliver .
Although some New Orleans musicians traveled north, jazz remained strictly a typical musical expression of New Orleans until the …show more content…
The musical revolution has different roots and the racial issue was one of them, the white musicians led the movement and black musicians had been separated from there. Jazz previously had been mixed with different kinds of music like the funk, blues and soul, but until then it had not been done with styles like rock, traditionally dominated by white musicians, the New York revolution changed everything. The second half of the 1990s experienced a revival of music for big bands, a trend that originated in the previous decade, in the work of musicians such as bassist Saheb Sarbib or cornet Butch Morris. Keyboardist Wayne Horvitz developed his idea of progressive jazz chamber, while the veteran multi-instrumentalist Marty Ehrlich picked the influence of traditional jazz.
Before the end of the last decade of the twentieth century, appeared on the scene in New York a new generation of young musicians that found in improvisation their key element of their music: the harpist Zeena Parkins, flutist Robert Dick, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and guitarist Alan Licht. Others musicians like the pianist Uri Caine and trumpeter Dave Douglas explored the relationship between hard bop, free jazz and classical