Jazz Music
What is Jazz Music and A Brief History About It
“Jazz is considered an American art form and an international phenomenon! Jazz music is considered a rich artistic heritage, a result of cultural collaboration and a universal language of tolerance and freedom.”
Jazz is called "America's Classical Music" and is considered America's only true art form, jazz materialized in the United States in the early 1900s in New Orleans specially. The city's diversified population included people of African, Caribbean, European, Mexican and English descent.
The musical traditions of African-Americans mixed with other styles(mentioned in the paragraph above), and what we now know as jazz was made from a mix of blues, marches, ragtime, brass and other kinds of music. …show more content…
Today, there are more than two dozen distinct jazz styles, including traditional jazz, bebop, cool jazz, fusion and jazz rock.
In-short jazz can be summarized as a constantly evolving(improvisation) music with roots in ragtime and blues, it is hard to define because there are so many styles and as it is evolving or improvising thus one tune won’t sound the same twice and usually features syncopated rhythms (ragtime).
1. Around 1900 this was America’s most popular dance and entertainment music.
2. 1905-1914: Highly trained black musicians could not find jobs playing classical music so they started playing ragtime in bars and clubs
3. 1910-1917: Black musicians had limited access to instruments. Musicians in New Orleans developed a style where each instrument had a defined role for example
a. Trumpet played the melody
b. Clarinet embellished the tune into an higher register
c. Trombone emphasized the bass and played a low counterpoint.
d. Bass, Banjo, piano provided harmony and
What is Jazz Music and A Brief History About It
“Jazz is considered an American art form and an international phenomenon! Jazz music is considered a rich artistic heritage, a result of cultural collaboration and a universal language of tolerance and freedom.”
Jazz is called "America's Classical Music" and is considered America's only true art form, jazz materialized in the United States in the early 1900s in New Orleans specially. The city's diversified population included people of African, Caribbean, European, Mexican and English descent.
The musical traditions of African-Americans mixed with other styles(mentioned in the paragraph above), and what we now know as jazz was made from a mix of blues, marches, ragtime, brass and other kinds of music. …show more content…
Today, there are more than two dozen distinct jazz styles, including traditional jazz, bebop, cool jazz, fusion and jazz rock.
In-short jazz can be summarized as a constantly evolving(improvisation) music with roots in ragtime and blues, it is hard to define because there are so many styles and as it is evolving or improvising thus one tune won’t sound the same twice and usually features syncopated rhythms (ragtime).
1. Around 1900 this was America’s most popular dance and entertainment music.
2. 1905-1914: Highly trained black musicians could not find jobs playing classical music so they started playing ragtime in bars and clubs
3. 1910-1917: Black musicians had limited access to instruments. Musicians in New Orleans developed a style where each instrument had a defined role for example
a. Trumpet played the melody
b. Clarinet embellished the tune into an higher register
c. Trombone emphasized the bass and played a low counterpoint.
d. Bass, Banjo, piano provided harmony and