Since the 1. Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience and styles to the art form as well. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as one of Americas original art forms. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to many distinctive styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1. French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonicimprovisation. Jennifer Steinkamp Steven Durow Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Two immersive installations explore life, loss, and growth at the Fine Arts Center. After a 20 year sojourn in the final frontier, at approximately 500 AM PT this morning, NASAs Jet Propulsion laboratory lost contact with the Cassini spacecraft. Jazz jam session, if you want to play jazz in a jamming session and you are in one of the following areas then come along to jam with the jazz band in one of the. Historical A Golden Month For J. J. Johnson December 1947 By Christopher Smith This month marks the 50th anniversary of an historic month in jazz. The question of the origin of the word jazz has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented. It is believed to be related to jasm, a slang. Old school skeezy dude on the subway pleasuring himself in public. New school skeezy dude on the subway airdropping you a dick pic. Ah, the forward march of technologyIn the 1. Kansas City jazz, a hard swinging, bluesy, improvisational style and Gypsy jazz a style that emphasized musette waltzes were the prominent styles. Bebop emerged in the 1. Cool jazz developed in the end of the 1. The 1. 95. 0s saw the emergence of free jazz, which explored playing without regular meter, beat and formal structures, and in the mid 1. Modal jazz developed in the late 1. Jazz rock fusion appeared in the late 1. In the early 1. 98. Other styles and genres abound in the 2. Latin and Afro Cuban jazz. Etymology and definitioneditThe question of the origin of the word jazz has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented. It is believed to be related to jasm, a slang term dating back to 1. The earliest written record of the word is in a 1. Los Angeles Times in which a minor league baseballpitcher described a pitch which he called a jazz ball because it wobbles and you simply cant do anything with it. The use of the word in a musical context was documented as early as 1. Chicago Daily Tribune. Its first documented use in a musical context in New Orleans was in a November 1. Times Picayune article about jas bands. In an interview with NPR, musician Eubie Blake offered his recollections of the original slang connotations of the term, saying When Broadway picked it up, they called it J A Z Z. It wasnt called that. It was spelled J A S S. That was dirty, and if you knew what it was, you wouldnt say it in front of ladies. The American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century. Jazz has proved to be very difficult to define, since it encompasses a wide range of music spanning a period of over 1. Attempts have been made to define jazz from the perspective of other musical traditions, such as European music history or African music. But critic Joachim Ernst Berendt argues that its terms of reference and its definition should be broader,1. United States through the confrontation of the Negro with European music1. European music in that jazz has a special relationship to time defined as swing, involves a spontaneity and vitality of musical production in which improvisation plays a role and contains a sonority and manner of phrasing which mirror the individuality of the performing jazz musician. In the opinion of Robert Christgau, most of us would say that inventing meaning while letting loose is the essence and promise of jazz. A broader definition that encompasses all of the radically different eras of jazz has been proposed by Travis Jackson it is music that includes qualities such as swing, improvising, group interaction, developing an individual voice, and being open to different musical possibilities. Krin Gibbard has provided an overview of the discussion on definitions, arguing that jazz is a construct that, while artificial, still is useful to designate a number of musics with enough in common to be understood as part of a coherent tradition. In contrast to the efforts of commentators and enthusiasts of certain types of jazz, who have argued for narrower definitions that exclude other types, the musicians themselves are often reluctant to define the music they play. As Duke Ellington, one of jazzs most famous figures, said Its all music. Elements and issueseditImprovisationeditAlthough jazz is considered highly difficult to define, at least in part because it contains so many varied subgenres, improvisation is consistently regarded as being one of its key elements. The centrality of improvisation in jazz is attributed to influential earlier forms of music the early blues, a form of folk music which arose in part from the work songs and field hollers of the African American slaves on plantations. These were commonly structured around a repetitive call and response pattern, but early blues was also highly improvisational. European classical music performance is evaluated by its fidelity to the musical score, with much less discretion over interpretation, ornamentation, and accompaniment the classical performers primary goal is to play a composition as it was written. In contrast, jazz is often characterized as the product of group creativity, interaction, and collaboration, which places varying degrees of value on the contributions of the composer if there is one and performers. In jazz, the skilled performer will interpret a tune in very individual ways, never playing the same composition the same way twice depending on the performers mood and personal experience, interactions with other musicians, or even members of the audience, a jazz musician may alter melodies, harmonies or time signature at will. The approach to improvisation has developed enormously over the history of the music. In early New Orleans and Dixieland jazz, performers took turns playing the melody, while others improvised countermelodies. By the swing era, big bands were coming to rely more on arranged music arrangements were either written or learned by ear and memorized, while individual soloists would improvise within these arrangements. Later, in bebop, the focus shifted back toward small groups and minimal arrangements the melody would be stated briefly at the start and end of a piece, but the core of the performance would be the series of improvisations. Subsequent styles such as modal jazz abandoned the strict notion of a chord progression, allowing the individual musicians to improvise even more freely within the context of a given scale or mode. In many forms of jazz, a soloist is often supported by a rhythm section consisting of one or more chordal instruments piano, guitar, etc., double bass playing the basslines and drum kit. These performers provide accompaniment by playing chords and rhythms that outline the song structure and complement the soloist. In avant garde and free jazz idioms, the separation of soloist and band is reduced, and there is license, or even a requirement, for the abandoning of chords, scales and rhythmic meters. Tradition and raceeditSince at least the emergence of bebop, forms of jazz that are commercially oriented or influenced by popular music have been criticized by purists. According to Bruce Johnson, there has always been a tension between jazz as a commercial music and an art form. Traditional jazz enthusiasts have dismissed bebop, free jazz, the 1. An alternative viewpoint is that jazz is able to absorb and transform influences from diverse musical styles,1. Raw Power Mine To Kill Rar. Letter Note Player. Answering Questions about Letter. Notes Answering Questions by LNP 2 Chainz Im Different Watch Out 2. Pac Tupac Ambitionz Az A Ridah California Love ft. Dr. Dre Changes Dear Mama I Aint Mad At Cha Keep Ya Head Up. Cent Ready For War ft. Eminem Dr. Dre5 Seconds Of Summer Amnesia A Great Big World Say Something ft. Christina AguileraABBA I Have A Dream. 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