Jazz dance

Early jazz is a combination of different musical styles, most of which are associated with African-Americans. The central figures were Early Blues Singers (Robert Johnson), Jazz moved "up the river" to Chicago (Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton), and Dixieland - New Orleans (King Oliver). The blues, which had influenced jazz from the beginning, became increasingly popular due to singers like Ma Rainey, Mamie Smith and Bessie Smith---the latter selling thousands of discs, including a national…

influence on jazz and changed the dynamics of the culture and race relationships people like Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith, and Louis Armstrong were among the most influential and played a big role in many of the events that helped break the color barriers in jazz. Some of these events included establishing black entertainment markets and performing…

avant-garde jazz, experimental ensembles, free improvisation, noise rock, electronic, contemporary classical, and music for film and opera/theater. The 66-year-old Cleveland native studied several theoretical correlations on music and scientific algorithms, which helped him becoming a first-rate innovator. Unstoppable, he keeps composing with a fierce autonomy and unrestricted creative sense. On a persistent explorative state of mind, he was responsible for another delicious avant-garde jazz…

bit of former African American and European American music. The history of Jazz spans over a period of a hundred years, including a very wide range of music, making it very difficult to define. Jazz makes good use of improvisation, and the swing note, as well as many aspects of harmony, American popular music, the brass band, and African musical elements such as blue notes and ragtime. Although the origins and basis of jazz originally came from within the black neighborhoods of the United…

music, jazz music and rock music. All these type of music are enjoyable to hear. The songs take you through different emotions. Jazz Jazz music is a very popular form of music, this form of music has been a popular genre since the early 20th century, mostly present and evident in neighbourhoods and then spread across Europe. Jazz has always influenced popular, more mainstream music, over the years it has gone through many evolutions, producing many different sub genres as time has gone on. Jazz…

Alton, Illinois on May 26, 1926. Davis’ compositions changed the evolution of Jazz with masterpieces, such as, Kind of Blue in 1959, Sketches of Spain in 1960, and the Bitches Brew in 1969. Kind of Blue won the bestselling album of the year, and is one of the most sought-after recordings as late as 1998. It was the first Jazz album to reach double-platinum, in addition to being a Masterpiece, Kind of Blue brought Jazz into the final years of the bebop era. Sketches of Spain arrangement was…

Jazz music has evolved greatly over many years establishing a large variety of different styles within it. I will investigate the deepest roots of jazz and also take a look at some of the theory behind. In the 17th to the 19th century the true and honest roots of jazz music were just beginning. Black slaves were placed in the deep south to work in cotton fields where they would sing African spirituals, chants, work songs and field hollers whilst slaving away all day long in the heat of the sun.…

Jazz music represents the combination of many different cultures into to one, to form something soulful and full of rich history. The basis to all music- melody, harmony, tone and rhythm- are all complex and full of hidden meaning in jazz. There are many variations on jazz as well, each full of its own meaning and its own rich history. Jazz started in the 1800s by African-Americans in the south. Plantation worker made songs, spirituals, and field hollers part of everyday life. These people used…

The Evolution of Jazz There are tons of music genres played in America, however jazz is one of the only American genres. Jazz has a long history that has brought it to be what it sounds like now. Jazz began with slaves in the 1700s, who would sing and make music as a way to express themselves and how oppressed they felt. Later on, the music made by slaves developed into the jazz that was so famously popular in the 1920s. This jazz continued to develop into the jazz of today’s society, and is…

Beginning in the early 20 th century Jazz is believed to have originated in the Southern United States within the African American communities of New Orleans. Although the definition and exact origins of jazz are widely debated, there is no question that the genre of music we know now as Jazz was strongly influenced by two specific genres known as the Blues and Ragtime. Before formally taking on the name blues, the blues originated within the slave communities of the south as spritual songs and…