Jazz Music

Jazz has been a style of music for about a century. It is one of the only types of music that has changed with the times. It has created so many subgenres with itself, like Funk Rock, Swing, Bebop and many others. Many schools even have a Jazz band for the students. That is just one-way how Jazz music effects music today. There are also many other ways that Jazz has affected music today, like without it, African-Americans would not have the same rights as whites, because Jazz was one of the things that helped with the Harlem Renaissance, and the Harlem Renaissance is what started the pathway to civil rights for African-Americans. With so many different styles and artists, Jazz has survived to today, since the early twentieth century, and has become a popular style of music.

A brief History of the Birth of Jazz In the early 1900’s African American musicians from various European cultures created a new style of music, known as Jazz. New Orleans is known as the birth place of Jazz with the French and Spanish migrants shaping early New Orleans’ culture. Settlers from other European countries including Italy, England and Germany combined Blues, Ragtime and Big Band Music to create what we now call Jazz. A Comparison between the different styles of jazz and the performers who started/created these styles (if appropriate).

The beginnings of Jazz are thought to be born at a specific time, but there is more to the birth of jazz. Jazz music was born more or less simultaneously in different parts of the United States and had many sources for its creation. Africans have contributed a lot to the style of making music, free rhythm, and the emotion with which they interpret their folk music that was later transformed into jazz. In the new world they absorbed the harmony and the concept of the Western form and condensed the African and European musical ideas, giving a musical style that can be called African American. Jazz became a type of urban expression that began to take hold in the cafes of New Orleans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Jazz Jazz is a musical genre that was created in the 1920’s. Jazz is heavily influenced by African American and Latin music. Originally named Jass, it's name was changed because Jazz was ridiculed and vandals would scratch out the "J". Jazz was an underground genre at this time. It was usually only played at clubs where gangsters and other criminals would go.

The History Of Jazz The first jazz was played in the early 20th century. The work chants and folk music of black Americans are among the sources of jazz, which reflects the rhythms and expressions of West African song. Ragtime, an Afro-American music that first appeared in the 1890s, was composed for the piano, and each rag is a composition with several themes. The leading ragtime composer was Scott Joplin.

The Beginning The word “jazz” did not become commonplace until around 1920 even though it had spent the preceding decade establishing itself as a musical genre. A mix of European harmony and African rhythm, blended with the current styles of the time such as ragtime and rhythm and blues, Jazz can be seen as an amalgamation of different cultures and has had huge influences on, and evolved concurrently with, American society in the past century. The birthplace of jazz is the subject of much more controversy than its undoubted influence on society. The most commonly reported and, in my view, logical birthplace of jazz is New Orleans.

Jazz is a musical genre born in the second half of the nineteenth century in the United States, which expanded globally over the twentieth century.

Jazz- a type of music that was originally created by African-Americans and is characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. Everything in our world has a rhythm to it. Whether it is the birds singing or somebody walking down the street. Music influences our lives, especially jazz. Jazz can tell a story, it can make you laugh or cry, happy or sad. However, music is a complicated element. There are many contributing factors for example, what instruments are used, who helped spread jazz, and where jazz originated.

In the 20’s, the era right after World War I, music and dancing became a focus. Many musicians were moving Northward from southern cities such as New Orleans, which was a main focus for what would become jazz music. As these musicians came up to more urban cities, they introduced the country to a world of music based on Caribbean music tones and southern blues. Syncopation was common in the songs that were known in this area, as were the common bluesy sounds and rhythms of those gospel songs and old hymns. This would all greatly influence the jazz creation. Jazz began as a music type that was focused more on orchestral sounds and bigger bands than smaller bands, such as seen with Whiteman, and this was evident in the types of dances and music the people listened to, with large piece orchestras. In this time period, there were big bands, but few solos or focus on jazz technique individually, as the bands showcased the overall sound of the band’s polyrhythmic and polyphonic sound more than its homophonic solo sounds. People such as Louis Armstrong began to be interested in focusing more on chords than melodies and on solos than group collective improvisation, and this started the move to a new wave of jazz: swing.

The jazz band evolved in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s by a change in social and economic forces that were changing pop culture. The music business was growing and becoming more centralized; more and more radio stations were launching, increasing music’s influence. Also, dancing was becoming a more popular recreational activity as a way for people to forget about life’s troubles. The jazz band itself evolved from a small group of musicians with numerous improvisations and a central soloist in to a large band with written arrangements. The main instruments also changed; a saxophone was now favored versus a