Jazz College Essays Samples For Students

I attended a live jazz performance that was organized by my school because it offers jazz education on the 15th day of April 2013.The performance was at Bryan theatre in my school that is ``Washington State University”. The show started at 8:00p.m and ended at 8:45.Matt Harris was the composer as well as an arranger in this event due to the fame and experience he has gathered over the years working with various famous ``bands” across the world and he did not disappoint the audiences as expected.
The atmosphere was welcoming. Everything needed for the event was at its ...

Indian classical music influencing western music in 21st century

The concept that Indian classical music has influenced western music has gained so much weight in the recent years. Classical music is the considered to be the music of east. While hip hop, jazz, rock and pop music is associated with western culture.
Introduction: the influence of Indian music is very prominent on western music. There are various evidences that show how western music is inspired from the Indian classical music. When we see at the Jazz music, it’s played in clubs, concerts, and even in balls. In the beginning, it was played in few western countries but ...

1. Motown was founded in 12th of January 1959, founded by Berry Gordy. The company was based in Detroit Hitsville U.S.A, and the offices located in 2648 West Grand Boulevard. Within a few years after its establishment, Motown was making more hits than any other recording label. Berry Gordy had a vision for driving talent and determination, and turning positives to negatives. He was also a teacher, producer and innovative entrepreneur. Therefore, he nurtured talent and brought it out in others, forging new grounds for minorities, hence making the sound of Motown a worldwide phenomenon loved by everyone.
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Jazz is a diverse art so attending a concert is always an interesting event. I managed to squeeze my way into the Hard Bop Jazz Ensemble Group to attend a concert they gave at the South Florida University campus some weeks ago. It was an interesting event, since this group is renowned as amongst the best in the area and is packed with several emerging musicians of the highest calibre.
The Hard Bop Jazz Ensemble performed at several events of note, and these include major jazz festivals held in Switzerland, Italy and Holland where they always garnered considerable praise ...

Jazz and Blues are the most important elements of jazz music and Amiri Baraki and Ralph Ellison delve into the subject with considerable aplomb and panache. Baraka describes jazz as an expression of culture at its most ‘unself’, therefore showing the larger consciousness of a self. He describes jazz as seeking another place apart from its middle-class origins. If jazz music can be described as black music, both are intrinsically separate, since the temptations for the middle class Negro include those of branching out into society.
In the reading, Baraka also discusses the breakdown of Black cultural tradition, describing ...

Early cinema was interestingly preoccupied with race; many of the great early films, for better or worse, addressed the conflict that occurred between people of different ethnicities, and their relationship to the greater whole of society. D.W. Griffith’s controversial The Birth of a Nation and Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer were no exceptions; both have problematic depictions of African-Americans, but while The Birth of a Nation provides no subversion to its unironic endorsement of the KKK, The Jazz Singer manages to use its depiction of blackface as a greater metaphor for the shirking of one’s cultural ...

Jazz is a unique style of music that took development in America during the early 20th century. It made a widespread popularity particularly in the urban areas such as New Orleans, and it served as a social-leveler and unifier. Melding both black and white citizens, Jazz became the basis for social dance music and the provided the early opportunities for public integration (“Jazz”, Encyclopedia.com). The music also helped stir up the national mood particularly during the Depression and the Second World War. The most remarkable period of the development of jazz is during the 1940s and 50s. During those ...

The Class Name

It`s hard even imagine our current musical life without such magnificent and diverse genre as jazz music, with its light tunes that are easy to listen, on the one hand, but with its possible complexities and progressive ways of composing and playing on the other. The aim of our current research is to discover the history and roots of jazz music, how the genre has developed in New Orleans, what it was influenced with, and what did the cultural and social variety of this city change in the cultures of various nations. Today we`re also about to ...

Summary Paper

Jazz music is traditionally an African American kind of music. Initially entertaining for its variety of instrument content and its diversity in musical aspects, jazz music became known for a specific type. With time, however, its message changed and the music has slowly become a platform for communicating political matters, as well as cultural concerns. Jazz music is not a rigid genre and even though it maintains its originality. It may also diversify to new explorations. Jazz music like other artistic subjects such as writing has to incorporate innovation in order to advance in the market. This market is ...

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote, “We Real Cool” in the middle of the American Civil Rights Movement. It was 1959. Racial segregation was the norm and the African American people had had enough of it. During this time, the Supreme Court was being pressured to desegregate schools. It was a time of extreme racial tension with severe hatred on both sides (whites vs. colored people). Colored people were being physically and verbally assaulted, and their efforts at integration were constantly being frustrated. Many African Americans used these attacks as motivation to incite change. They staged peaceful protests and remained noble despite ...

Reflection

Inequality in the Arts
In the world of arts, there are major gaps or inequalities between the successful artists and those who have not become famous or successful yet. An artist is a person who has horned a skill or a talent. Examples of artists are actors, musicians, painters, those who perform ‘spoken word’ and even poets. Inequality is clearly evident when two artists are born in different environments. For example, when a singer grows up in a family that nurtures and encourages her to continue singing, this tremendously increase her chances of becoming a successful artist, but if ...

Music is an inseparable part of human life. Nowadays, there are different kinds of music and every person can find something to one’s liking. This essay is aimed at comparing and contrasting two concerts: the pop music concert and Baroque era concert.
The first concert I have watched was the concert of Charmaine Clamor. Frankly speaking, I was not impressed much by the concert. However, I should admit that the atmosphere of the concert was interesting and inspiring. Although, it is pop music, it is much alike to jazz. The atmosphere in the club and the manner of ...

Concert Review: DVC Jazz Club, Tuesday, May 4th,2010

In general, the convert that I witnessed last May 2010 was amazing. It provided me with a good jazz experience and gave me ideas about the technicality of the genre. It was first time watching a pure jazz concert. With that I made sure that I not only enjoyed it but also learn as much as I can.
My favorite part of the concert is the Faculy Jazz Combo. The performance of everyone part of the group was notable and extremely professional. Everyone had their individual moments of brilliance that made their music standout and at the same time ...

The period between 1900 and 1940 witnessed huge growth and development of jazz leading it to become a widely popular genre of music not just in the United States but the entire globe. However, as is with any other type of music, this genre saw a lot of transformation in terms of style and structure. As time progressed, new forms of jazz that deviated from the traditional style and structure started to emerge. A perfect example of this is the bebop style that started gaining popularity in the 1940’s. The bebop style began to become popular at the ...

The swing era was marked by the introduction of jazz to the world. This genre of music started for the Southern states of the US. New Orleans in Louisiana is particularly considered to be the home of jazz music. During the swing era, this genre of music started to be acknowledged not only throughout the country but throughout the world. It was so influential that even some composers of classical music started borrowing some components from it.
In the 1940’, there emerged a new sub-genre of jazz music that was referred to as Bebop. Jazz had been increasing developing ...

Fitzgerald F. Scott is a renowned writer in the world literature. Scott’s works have contributed a lot to the development of literature in the global front. One of his remarkable piece of work is the novel entitled “The Great Gatsby”. First created in 1925, “The Great Gatsby” was republished several times in different languages to suit the needs of the audience. The book’s city of publication is New York in the United States. Fitzgerald Scott himself was an aspired American who was concerned by the civilization activities of the time (Fitzgerald & Bruccol 26). America was the place ...

1. What is Civil Disobedience? How did Thoreau utilize this process? What was he protesting against? What is his critique of American society? How was his idea practiced in other movements?
Henry David Thoreau asserts that people should not allow the government to atrophy and overrule their conscience. The government has to govern the least. In fact, a government that does not govern at all tend to be the best (Thoreau 99). Civil disobedience refers to nonviolent resistance and the need to prioritize personal conscience over what is dictated by law. In most cases, civil disobedience entails active and ...

According to the American heritage dictionary Jazz is ‘A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic under structure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom’. Jazz music originated with the southern black Americans in the 19th century. It mostly comprised of heavily accented rhythms, rubato, individualized melodic variations and the unusual tone on the trumpet.
Jazz style of fusion was named after the blending of rock and jazz music the singers of jazz music were exempted from the ban since they ...

Jazz is just one of the genres of music and just like other genres; it has its own set of subgenres too. One of the most popular and romanticized subgenres of jazz is hard bop. Some of the most popular hard bop artists include but may not be limited to Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Health, Clifford Brown, Horace Silver, and the hard bop artist who will be the focus of this paper, Charles Mingus Jr.
One of the most popular works of Charles Mingus Jr. was the Fables of Faubus. Having heard to the song numerous times, it ...

I have chosen to take a look into the piece “Heebie Jeebies” sung by Louis Armstrong. The piece was first recorded in 1926 and it is generally the first piece recorded into the scat-technique. Other performers that played this piece were Chick Webb after an arrangement by Benny Carter and the Boswell Sister that performed the tune on radio.
Jazz was a music genre that has emerged in America in the beginning of the twenty century and was developed from a confluence of African and European music tradition in African American communities in the Southern United States of America. ...

Historic jazz style represented by Johnson P. James

“Old fashioned love”
Composed in the year 1913 and later recorded by a person known as Cliff Ukulele Ike Edwards in the year 1923.
Johnson James and Fats Wallers
General characteristics of the historic jazz style:
Johnson P. Also known as the “Grandfather of the hottest Piano” was a jazz pianist who developed during the period of transition of ragtime. Ragtime is also known as the music that he performed from the written scores only and also had another attribute of rhythmically and more relaxed developments of the normal piano. As a result, it later becomes to be known ...

“My regards to broadways” is the opening Episode in the six Episode of the movie Broadway: The American Musical. The episode covers the period from 1893 – 1927 and considers the significance of the New York City and how the immigrants played a role in defining this city. The Broadway musical is a barometer of the American popular culture. The opening episode traces the origins of musicals to the Ziegfeld Follies. The episode introduces many of the era’s key figures such as entertainers Fanny Brice and Bert Williams, who were the first crossover artists (YouTube “My regards to broadways”). ...

For our music class, we had to attend a live Jazz concert. There were many several concerts, which we could choose from, both varied from on or off campus. The recommended concert that we chose for this this semester was on Thursday, November 13th in Gusman Concert Hall. We attended a “Jazz Vocal II Ensemble & Jazz Vocal III Ensemble”. The directors for this ensemble were Sherrine Mostin and Eliot Weeks. There were 2 Jazz Vocal Ensembles that consisted of different people playing and supporting during the concert. There is some information regarding these two excellent Ensembles
Jazz Vocal III ...

Both bebop and cool jazz emerged in the middle of 20th century; bebop was formed as a reaction to the mass development of trendy jazz dance orchestras in the early 1940s and cool jazz, in its turn, originated from the bebop in the late 1940s. Although both of these jazz styles arose in the same period and cool jazz as such is considered to be a modification of bebop, there are several fundamental differences between them. These differences lie in the mood of the music, expressivity of sound, causes of styles emergence and purposes of each style.
Developed in ...

Ballet dance at its inception was developed as a performance dance in the fifteen century. With time, however, music and choreography was incorporated and the dance itself became popular as a concert dance. In the contemporary times, the Ballet dance has since developed to a level where companies with professional composers and orchestras are trained to perform this kind of dance. On the other hand, Jazz dance was developed many years subsequent to the invention of Ballet dance. Particularly, this dance was developed in the 1900s as a vernacular dance that was performed by the African Americans who were ...

Music is an individual process of describing a composer or musician`s feelings and thoughts, that`s why every music masterpiece is so much different from another one. Let us take two great jazzmen, Earl Hines and John Coltrane, who worked in different times, depicting different life of people. They lived and worked in time, when everything was full of jazz as the contrary to classical music, jazz was considered immoral and inappropriate way to play and compose. Everything has changed in time and jazz has become one of the most popular genres of music of the time. Let ...

Esi Edugyan’s novel Half Blood Blues, with its tale of mixed-race characters, jazz, and Nazi Germany, focuses chiefly on the presence of ‘undesirables’ – people who the status quo rejects in some form or another. In the case of 1939 Berlin, people of non-white descent (such as the half-white Hiero Falk) were targeted for elimination and arrest. This left others who could mask their ‘undesirability’ (such as the lighter-skinned Sid Griffiths) to have an easier time escaping the horrors of World War II and Nazism. Many things are mixed in Half Blood Blues, as its title suggests – races are ...

It is hard to believe that anyone dare to define “What jazz is”, because even a great man in the history of jazz - Louis Armstrong could not make it, saying that you just need to understand it. Indeed, jazz, its history, origin and styles are too diverse and multifaceted to give a simple comprehensive definition. As you already guessed my favorite style of music is Jazz. It got me thinking about the genuine value of music. It is music of beauty and honesty, with an incredible history.
It is unique because its sound lives in the rhythm, in ...

Hipsters are a subculture of women and men typically between the ages of 16 to 30 years (Hiebert 2). This subculture values same qualities, which include individuality, progressiveness, counter-culture, and appreciation of art and indie-rock. Hipsters began in the 1940’s, and like most things hipster, the name of the subculture draws much from some other cultural movement, hipsters of the 1940s (Faulkner 1). This group was connected with calling each other hepcats, spending most their time smoking pot, and the modern jazz music.
Hipsters reject mainstream societal norms that apply to dating preferences and traditional “rules” of physical ...

According to John Kao , there are a few major connections between playing Jazz and doing innovation. First and foremost, it is the objectivity of Jazz and that it is the capability which is developed as a result of investment in self over a period of time. That way it becomes ingrained in self, and is something that is very hard to lose. Just as innovation, playing Jazz is not something along the lines of a mathematical formula, which you can learn in a short period of time. Like innovation, it is that deep capability that you build over time. ...

1960’s and 1970’s (p. 302)

2-The meaning of renaissance
A revival (p. 302)
3-What black aesthetic entails
In the 1960s a group formed that called themselves the African Community of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCobra). The collaborated in creating a black aesthetic which would respect the traditional culture of Africa, African American culture, and still respect the individual abilities of each artist The elements of black aesthetics include free symmetry, shine, jam-packed and jelly-tight compositions, awesome imagery and Koolaid Color. (p. 322)
4 -Why African American and African cultural inventions were and are referred to as inferior by Europeans.
It was seen as culture coming ...

In the early 40s many creative musicians began to feel acute stagnation in the development of jazz, which arose due to the emergence of a huge number of trendy dance and jazz bands. They did not seek to express the true spirit of jazz, mass-produced and used blanks and techniques best teams. Trying to break out of the impasse was made by young, first of all - the New York musicians, among whom alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, drummer Kenny Clarke, pianist Thelonious Monk are included. Gradually they began to emerge experiments with a new style, with ...

LIVE CONCERT ESSAY

Jazz music is one of the old genres of music in the world. It is however very interesting and soothing to listen to. It does have a hint of relaxation attached to it. The mood created by jazz music is just soothing to say the least. It is calmed and relaxed and surprisingly very easy to dance to. The following essay is a report on a visit to a jazz concert. It entails special and detailed analysis of the instruments applied in jazz music and their effectiveness in reaching out to the crowd and making jazz music the global ...

HOW GERSHWIN AND JAZZ INFLUENCED AMERICAN COMPOSERS

Gershwin was an excellent musician who doubled up as a composer and proficient pianist. Gershwin is termed as a prolific musicians and composer for blending the jazz-influenced style of music with classical music. Having studied under Charles Hambitzer, and Nadia Boulanger, Gershwin was able to perfect his art of music by blending the not-so popular jazz music in that age with the popular classical music. Despite many people`s cynical sentiment towards Gershwin`s attempt to blend both popular and classical genres of music, his works proved to be a great success that have greatly influenced composers up to ...

The Civil Rights Movement had various standard bearers in the struggle for equal rights across the colour line but music perhaps is the least well known of these. Ornette Coleman’s ‘Lonely Woman’ is a haunting piece containing several crooning sounds with the orchestral backing extremely effective. The woodwind and string sounds almost recreate the sounds of the Mississippi Delta where racial injustice was probably the most pronounced in the United States. Coleman’s voice contains typical African American tones which almost send a shiver down one’s spine. I felt very sad when listening to the music since ...

Coleman is more of an innovator in the field of jazz music. In fact, together with his band mates, they went against the grain by redefining their own style of jazz and stopped following the conventional forms that had been used there before. There before, jazz musicians run a tune’s change. Instead, he chose to use unfettered melodic inventiveness. Coleman went out of his way to play his kind of music and tunes that were pre-given to him. His style was different and therefore, he came up with his own signature which was identifiable to only him. He ...

The Orion Saxophone Quartet was started in the year 1989 by Jeff Benedict and Charles Richard. Both were products a saxophone studio belonging to Harvey Pittel. This studio was situated at the University of Texas. Being ardent fans disciples of Pittel, they wanted to replicated the expansive rich voice of their boss-Pittel in their music. Therefore, they decided to settle in Los Angeles and formed a group to play good music. In their search, they got a perfect match from Adrian Adams and Ken Foerch who had proved a perfect match in music conceptualization and tone matching. Orion Quartet ...

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians is indeed an innovative and highly committed organization. The non-profit group which saw its beginnings in Chicago, Illinois chiefly by the pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, Jodie Christian who is a pianist, drummer Steve McCall as well as composer Phil Cochran has responded extremely well to create support for up and coming artists who lack institutional support in the world of art and music.
With a charter that promotes performing and nurturing serious recorded music, the AACM has been working tirelessly since 1965 to promote various sections of music which have otherwise ...

Subjective

One of the most celebrated works of the American composer George Gershwin is entitled Rhapsody in Blue, which features a notable crossover between the sounds of a classical piano piece and Jazz masterpiece. It is not first the time that such musical piece grazed the concert halls and the ears of critiques, but what sets Gershwin’s piece apart from genre is its unique sound, which conveys specific mood. Rhapsody in Blue encompasses happy trails on a gloomy avenue kind of mood like riding down the yellow brick road in a wicked forest. The piece sustains the same mood ...

- Analysis of the song “Crazy Blues” (Recorded August 10 1920) by Mamie Smith and her Jazz group (arizona.edu)
- What musical elements were executed by the musicians?
In the song “crazy blues” the musicians executed several musical elements such as rhythm, timbre, tempo, pitch and harmony. In the song, the trombone plays first, followed by the clarinet and the violin. The instruments are all in tune and the pitch of the musician combines well with the instruments.
- What style did they play in?
The music style is jazz. This is evidenced by the improvisation, blue notes, polyrhythm’ ...

In his article, “The Gal Yippers Have No Place In Our Jazz Bands.” (Down Beat 15 October 1939), Ted Toll is at pains to point out that a good jazz vocalist should not be simply based exclusively on the sex. He is scathing of women due to the fact that he believes they are too artificial and this perhaps reflects the attitude which was prevalent in the time regarding women – one has to remember that this was 1939 and women were treated as quite less than important in those days.
However the main thrust of Toll’s article seems ...

Ted opens his article by reminding readers that there is already proliferation of good jazz than the public can consume. He calls this scenario the ‘abundance of the right stuff’. This opening remark is supposedly meant to convince a reader that jazz is not in any way in disarray that a knee-jerk experimentation is necessary. It serves as a foundation to his scathing article about the increasing involvement of lovely women in the business. He begins right away by a reference to a hypothetical humorous wince of the boys at the sound of a ‘young lovelies chirp’. But it ...

Jazz is a form of music that has faced tremendous advances for a long time. There have been various arguments about jazz that make people not to fully understand jazz music and how it came to develop to its current status. Proper understanding of jazz music would only be realized through exclusive analysis of what has been brought forth by various musicians concerning the form of music. Although, it is hard to understand who had the full understanding of the origin of jazz as well as its development a lot of facts may be borrowed from various musicians who ...

Introduction

As one of the most famous genres of music, jazz has played a very important role in the United States throughout the years. In spite of its popularity, the origin of this art form is however more vague than its impact. The major subject of contention about jazz has been about its place of founding and the exact dates of its formation amongst other hot topics. Some have maintained that jazz naturally evolved from two popular forms of music of the period, the blues and ragtime. This evolution occurred across the entire countries as various musicians experimented with these ...

African American music is a collective term used to refer to various musical styles made popular in the early centuries. It encompasses European and American influences in music that created an entirely new musical genre. It has traces of diverse cultural backgrounds and beliefs mixed with real-life happenings voiced out through meaningful lyrics and music. The combination of such musical influences paved the way for the development of a range of music styles such as blues, jazz, gospel, and rap music, among others. In all these developments, Jewish Americans have been in the forefront in introducing and influencing the ...

The origin of jazz music was reportedly traced to dates which were as early as the 1800s through an era more commonly known as “antebellum”. During those times, jazz music was already identified to be part of black music. Jazz is actually defined as “a style of music, an American culture and distinguished by flexible rhythmic tempo, as a base accompanied with improvisation of solo and ensemble on basic tunes and chord patterns” . Since its historical origin, jazz music has transcended and evolved through the creative and innovative influences of musicians and musical instruments through time. The current discourse ...

Music is a great thing to listen. It influences our thoughts and actions in different ways. Jazz is a musical genre originated from a mixture of European and African musical ideas that are filtered through the American experience.
Louis Armstrong- hotter than that (1982).
Louis performs his music with a brief introduction of instruments playing. The sounds give away to a wonderful swinging chorus on the cornet. The use of trumpet by Louis creates a wonderful melody accompanied by the use of drums, which makes the music a hot six and the bass created a hot seven. For his ...

Music is known to be universal but the jazz music emanated from slavery as African slaves came with their sounds which they fused with the church sounds and folk songs and songs from Europe in a bid to find consolation in their new surroundings. In the midst of everything it was used to unite the people. While Jazz music is being credited to gaining recognition through Buddy Bolden, the story of Jazz music cannot be discussed without one way or the other inadvertently coming back to Louis Armstrong whom many have claimed to be the greatest of Jazz musicians. ...

(Name of poems), are perhaps three of the most distinguishing poems of Langston Hughes, where it becomes obvious that Langston’s everyday life and everything surrounding him have been an inspiring platform for him to write. In fact, he appears to be noticing even the slightest details of what is going on around him and be particularly drawn by nature’s beauty as well as societal issues that included racism and the rights of the African Americans of that time, among others. For that reasons his poems include intense scenes that easily carry the reader away.
Since the blues ...

Sonny’s Blues

Introduction
This is the heart-rending is the tale of how two extreme approaches through which people deal with the tribulations and trials of life. The story reminded me of my own conflict with my family regarding my choice of career as a guitarist. In the novel, Sonny’s Blues, the author James Baldwin narrates the story of two African-American brothers. The story revolves around the relationship between the brothers and how it changes dimensions with the change in circumstances. The narrator, Sonny’s elder brother, had promised his dying mother that he will care for and look after his ...

Ethnocentrism is basically the judging of another culture by the standards of one’s own culture. This may mean that one can observe another culture in an insular manner and this means that there are negative connotations to the term. It may mean that one does not appreciate another culture especially in musical or art terms and that is obviously detrimental to one’s artistic success.
I have experienced ethnocentrism in various ways. A typical example would be the influx of African culture through the phenomenon of immigration and a negative view of this. I decided to judge the ...

Music- A form of art which is not governed by any external factor. It has an intrinsic appeal to itself that makes it fluid. Music does not know any language or boundaries. It touches heart and soul. The impact that it leaves is sometimes everlasting. It has the ability to control your mind and body, moods, actions and thinking. Music is practiced like a religion worldwide. There is a diversity of utilities that music fulfils. It is recreation for some people, few take it as a time pass, others consider it as their bread and some people just worship ...

Many say that music is the food of life and this has no better meaning than the actual experience music brings. Amongst the most popular genres, one can find pop and rap as well as R and B where jazz plays an important part. In fact, Rhythm and Blues actually came out of jazz as a genre and this type of music has been considerably influential across a number of countries in different continents.
Jazz is a genre of music that begun in the 20th century as result of a mixture of African and American music culture. For over ...

According to Eileen, there have been immense improvements that have been made in the black American music. This has been exhibited by the studies focused on spirituals, jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, popular music, and classic black American music. All these ranges of music fall under the umbrella of the African-American music genres. Their origin is traced back to the involuntary servitude that exhibited the nature of black Americans’ life approaching the American Civil War. These modern genres got into development during the 19th century. They involved the fusion of European musical styles with African originated styles that ...

Jazz is not just a form of musical style but in real terms, it is the outcome of one’s imagination that occurs in the performers mind and then gets turned into the music with the help of tunes and nodes. 20th century is the era that is remarkably termed as the Jazz era, as this period marks the origin of this unique style of music in the United States by blacks originated from Africa with the joining of the European music with blacks folks from the rest of the world.

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Introduction

The term art has diverse description based on the area of application. It originates from the word artificial meaning man-made therefore considering everything that has been built by man and has an emotional link to an artist and the audience is art. Art plays a major role in our daily lives; a deeper imagination of the world without arts is simply not possible. The world we live in today is full of arts from the shoes we wear to the desk in our offices. It involves designing of an object or an activity to solve a particular problem. Musicians ...

Jazz

Introduction:
Jazz is a genre of music that begun in the 20th century as result of a mixture of African and American music culture. For over a long period jazz has included 19th and 20th century’s music. West African jazz has a unique characteristic that uses blue notes, improvisation, syncopation, polyrhythm, call-response and the swing note. The Latin fusions further included afro-Cuban which lived from 1950s and 1960s, jazz fusion from 1970s, acid jazz from 1980s. Acid jazz merged both funk and hip-hop features. Afterwards Nu jazz preceded acid jazz later in the 1990s. 
Jazz has no clear ...

1956 – Hard Bop. Hard Bop developed from Bop and spread through the East Coast. Adherents of this style believed that cool jazz was too “European” and wanted to return more blues and Afro-centric elements. Hard Bop was an assertive style that characterized by more active drummers, improvisations, darker and heavier ambience. Style was preferred primary by urban musicians from Philadelphia and Detroit (“Cool Jazz and Hard Bop”).
In 1956 Sonny Rollins with different musicians created several significant albums: “Tenor Madness”, “Volume one”, “Colossus”, “Plus Four” and other. Rollins also became a tenor saxophonist of Miles Davis Quintet that was ...

One of the true American music art form is Jazz which has been the foundation of many music genres in the modern music era. There are several forms of jazz that has evolved through time. The oldest and known to be the origin of jazz is Ragtime, this is the music born from rhythms of African music and heritage. This is also incorporated to different styles such as coon songs, cakewalk and music from jig bands which afterwards turned into Ragtime back in 1895. The main characteristic and notable precursor of the early form Ragtime music was based from ...

The African American musical tradition spans hundreds of years, and represents substantial changes and shifts that have affected not just African American culture, but American musical tradition as a whole. From the traditional African songs brought over in slavery, to Negro spirituals, to the eventual creation and evolution of jazz and hip hop, this tradition has gone through many changes to accommodate the needs and incorporation of many different elements of the African-American experience. In this essay, the evolution of African American musical tradition is outlined, detailing many of the turning points in said tradition and their influence, including ...