Jazz is a music genre that has characteristic qualities like swing, interaction by a group, slow beats and has its origins in New Orleans. Jazz came into existence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jazz has a fusion of African, European and American beats and instruments hence making it a unique type of music.
During that time, New Orleans was the only place in the “New world” that allowed black people to own drums. This greatly contributes to the rise of Jazz in that they were able to fuse their African tunes and church hymns into the European style of music (Fellezs 2011). It was possible because of the creole population in New Orleans.
This paper explains two subgenres of jazz namely Funky jazz and Swing jazz. They have distinct …show more content…
He “electrified” his music by combining it with the music of other artists like Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix, and J. Brown. He had his band that included Michael Henderson James Mtume and others to do this. “I don’t play music for people who hang out music conservatories or Lincoln center; I play music for people who hand out at the Rib Shack on Saturdays nights in Harlem…”
Soon afterwards, other musicians followed suit. The jazz purists did not receive this with open arms since it was more of all instrument music than what they knew. Stevie Wonder went on to use electronic synthesizers on his …show more content…
His first song in this style was Alligator Boogaloo in 1967. Others joined this style of music until 1975 where disco hit the stage. This brought change to the industry. Another group by Wynton Marsalis brought “acid jazz”. It was not until the 90’s that the jazz-funk re-entered the music industry again.
House music, believed to have descended from funk-jazz, which has a more or less basis for dance time and drum beats that are fairly strong and a bass sound characterized as driving.
In the 1920’s, Swing jazz begun. It got to its highest in 1940’s but went into decline in the 50’s. At the end of World War II, jazz music was born. It is quite distinctive from the two beats per bar that was used in New Orleans in that it had four beats per bar. It has a piano, set drum(s) and/or a guitar (Fellezs, 2011)
The call-and-response pattern between instrumental sections of the band got a change. It involved trumpets and trombones, a reed section comprising of a clarinet and a saxophone. This was from the African way of singing in the African-American Southern Baptist church. The artists in the band maintained a swinging beat, which the people dance to, while the trombones and trumpets sounded. The vocals would join later and this would create a sweet harmonica tune in the form of swing
During that time, New Orleans was the only place in the “New world” that allowed black people to own drums. This greatly contributes to the rise of Jazz in that they were able to fuse their African tunes and church hymns into the European style of music (Fellezs 2011). It was possible because of the creole population in New Orleans.
This paper explains two subgenres of jazz namely Funky jazz and Swing jazz. They have distinct …show more content…
He “electrified” his music by combining it with the music of other artists like Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix, and J. Brown. He had his band that included Michael Henderson James Mtume and others to do this. “I don’t play music for people who hang out music conservatories or Lincoln center; I play music for people who hand out at the Rib Shack on Saturdays nights in Harlem…”
Soon afterwards, other musicians followed suit. The jazz purists did not receive this with open arms since it was more of all instrument music than what they knew. Stevie Wonder went on to use electronic synthesizers on his …show more content…
His first song in this style was Alligator Boogaloo in 1967. Others joined this style of music until 1975 where disco hit the stage. This brought change to the industry. Another group by Wynton Marsalis brought “acid jazz”. It was not until the 90’s that the jazz-funk re-entered the music industry again.
House music, believed to have descended from funk-jazz, which has a more or less basis for dance time and drum beats that are fairly strong and a bass sound characterized as driving.
In the 1920’s, Swing jazz begun. It got to its highest in 1940’s but went into decline in the 50’s. At the end of World War II, jazz music was born. It is quite distinctive from the two beats per bar that was used in New Orleans in that it had four beats per bar. It has a piano, set drum(s) and/or a guitar (Fellezs, 2011)
The call-and-response pattern between instrumental sections of the band got a change. It involved trumpets and trombones, a reed section comprising of a clarinet and a saxophone. This was from the African way of singing in the African-American Southern Baptist church. The artists in the band maintained a swinging beat, which the people dance to, while the trombones and trumpets sounded. The vocals would join later and this would create a sweet harmonica tune in the form of swing