Vision JazzJazz Area for Soul

Progenitor of jazz, the urban music, from rural areas in the south like streets in American cities. This is the result of two real musical traditions, namely West Africa and Europe. West African influence on jazz in the form of a continuous rhythm, movement, and emotions play jazz very well supported. While European spices more influence in terms of musical quality offensive harmony and melody.

Combination of these two traditions produced a music that plays in a meter and a reinterpretation of the use of tones in new combinations, creating the blue tones that express feelings, both sad and happy. Shouts cultivators / slave-combined with the sounds of musicians of New Orleans style, producing a new type of music. Gospel Music from the melt with the church in the 20th century known as “blues”, offers a vocal seasoning translate well into the instrument.

Marching Bands, which was played not only by the whites but also blacks, introducing instruments that otherwise have to keep an expression of the classical music tradition. Drums and stringed instruments are in combination with trumpet, trombone, tuba, and saxophone. Music from West Africa and the music created by slaves translated by different methods by the influence of Caribbean and Latin strains. And what eventually became a popular song is accompanied by elements of Gospel, Blues, and Field Hollers (shouts cultivators), adding a rich texture to the music world had never heard it before. American music, matured with the transformation that will be jazz. In the end, ragtime into this movement toward the end of the 19th century, and the rest, as they say, has become history.

It’s very interesting to study this type of music. Jazz departing from the workers and the music is now regarded as the elite. It was a mistaken assumption. However, until now the definition of “jazz” is still continuing debate.