Smooth jazz

to thinking of our favorite genre of music, it is generally held that pop-music is people’s favorite. Depending on personal experience, personality type, and emotional concern, however, we find that some people hold the idea of “old fashion” such as Jazz, Blue, Rock and Roll and so on. At that period, there existed quite a few of outstanding singers. Take Frank Sinatra, who was “one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century and had a popularity that was later…

Influence of Fusion Jazz Fusion Jazz is a genre of jazz which mainly includes a collaboration of Jazz music with one or more musical genres. Other musical genres which are combined with Jazz include funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin Jazz. Fusion Jazz started to develop in the late 1960’s and this was an era when a huge number of jazz musicians experimented with creating new sounds with electric instruments. The origins of fusion jazz are known to be jazz, rock, bebop, blues, funk, and…

Jazz has been around for many years. The jazz age didn’t come around until the 1920’s. Jazz originated in New Orleans in the early 1900’s known as the “New Orleans sound”. Jazz influenced many aspects of society. The jazz era was a period of economic prosperity, cultural flowering, and the shaking up of social morals. The 1920’s marked the beginning of a new decade for jazz music, also known as the Roaring twenties. Jazz is mostly distinguished by its improvisation and its rhythmic urgency.…

The 1920’s were a good time to be alive--there were handy inventions, plenty of smooth jazz, and flowering economics. During this short decade, the lifestyles of Canadians improved drastically due to the extraordinary new technology, including Band-Aids, accurate clocks, and insulin. Their social lives improved with the new fashions, a newly organised sports industry, and an up-and-coming jazz era. It wasn’t just their personal lives that improved; with the increase in consumerism, industrial…

Undoubtedly one of the greatest musicians of all time, Louis Armstrong is credited with putting “Jazz” in the coined title of the decade, the “Jazz Age”. Some older adults objected to “vulgarity” and “depravity” of jazz music, but the majority of young Americans loved the freedom they felt on the dance floor. Along with new music came provocative new dances such as the Charleston and the Jitterbug. Jazz became a national phenomenon thanks to the invention of the radio. The radio created a new…

Without African music we would not have some of the most popular genres of music that we have today. African music influence helped create genres like jazz, gospel, blues, soul and even hip hop and reggae. The traditional song and dance created by native Africans spread all over the world as its fusion with other type of song helped create the music we all know and love today. The spread of the African music can be traced to the slave trade that shipped Africans all over the world. The one thing…

I feel there are a lot of factors that go into why there haven 't been any Jazz or classical music videos being produced in recent years. The problem is that music videos aim to please a younger crowd while most people who listen to jazz do not fit into the young demographic. This is because jazz has transitioned from folk music genre to a popular music genre and is now considered an art form. People nowadays do not have the time to…

Ethnomusic 50A Harrison Charley Oct 16, 2015 Ragtime and Blues Jazz is widely considered as the greatest form of African American music in the twentieth century, and it is distinguished by the originality of its improvisation, the virtuosity and erudition of its performers and composers and its professionalism and artistry. (Burnim 163) Although Jazz is one distinctive music genre, some of the other genre influenced the emergence of the jazz, such as African American traditional music, European…

The Guidance of Blues Blues is an African American art form that was created in the early 20th century. It was a secular response for the segregation that African Americans faced during the post-reconstruction era. African Americans use blues for catharsis, a spiritual relief from physical and emotional grievance in their difficult position in the society. Elements of it has been passed through the adaptations over the century and still exists in the modern blues we hear nowadays. Looking back…

On April 7, 2016, the GSU Jazz Combos came to play a riveting concert at the Georgia State Recital Hall. Two combos performed that night; the first was a quintet directed by David Frackenpohl, and the second combo of the night was an octet directed by Robert Dickson. The members constituting the first combo were bassist David Schroeder, drummer Zach Benator, guitarist Bob Tarkington, tenor saxophonist Chris Suarez, and vocalist Oriana Wisdom. The members of the second combo were bassist David…