BRIEF HISTORY OF JAZZ

Jazz music is a mestizo whose grandparents European music and African rhythm.

Their merger was in the United States with the arrival of African slaves in the early seventeenth century, cotton plantations, whose owners had a white European culture, with its traditional classical and folk music.

The black slaves eventually assimilate the Christian religion, especially Baptist and Methodist and sang psalms in church, with European harmonies of white fused with traditional African roots and was born GOSPEL religious side and the BLUES outside the churches in plantations and street.

 

The Gospel, in full force with the magnificent religious choirs, has been the cradle of many of the great female voices of jazz.

The Blues, as the name suggests is sadness, melancholy, and being "blues" is to feel sadness of a situation that is not seen remedy, very typical of slaves and marginalized.

With a basic twelve-bar musical, uses so-called "blue notes", an alteration of the third and seventh notes of the musical scale, peculiar to this scale just as well call it "blues scale". Especially the singers say the blues, but expressed sadness that is "feeling" (Blues is a feeling).

Something like flamenco "duende".

In 1865, after the Civil War slaves they are declared free.

At about that time, a musical style born in St. Louis in 1870, gained in popularity. It was a dynamic dance style piano, ragtime, whose scores were recorded in cardboard rolls for mechanical piano or pianola was not jazz, but it was anything.

The Jazz comes from the pot where all these styles are baked in the late nineteenth century in New Orleans.

In this city it was customary to accompany funerals with band music. They did slow, sad and slow to go to the cemetery and cheerful way to return, causing people out dancing behind them.

In the thirties jazz gets a great professional and shown great soloists who improvise according to the appropriate harmonic scheme for each song. Now was the "Swing", the Big Bands and mythical characters such as Duke Ellintong, Count Basie, Goodman Benni yLouis Armstrong. The Jazz had also played dignified and whites. It was dance music in the great halls or in small slums US After the Second World War, appear on different styles of jazz. Of the first styles, the "Be-bop" or simply "Bop" was invented by the legendary Charlie Parker with Dizzy Gillespie. Being a more artistic and intellectual style, full of racial and social protest, was not fit for the dance, it was too fast and sometimes chaotic, but artistically was a revolution, which made the batteries put everyone else.

Since 1947 successive changes again revolutionize the Jazz, the "Bop" to "Cool" to "Hard Bop" and "Free Jazz" occur. Artists as trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, pianist Thelonius Monk, saxophonist Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, etc ..., all these styles evolved or invented.

With concerts throughout Europe and the personal search without style defined the Fusion comes almost anything, especially with the 60 Brazilian music (Bossa Nova), Cuba and America in general including flamenco.

But he had also appeared on Rock, Pop, and soloists, which moved masses of young people. The Jazz fell to a vast minority who appreciate its essence: freedom; the music that arises at the time, yet the value of the unique and ephemeral.

Today jazz is recovering thanks to the vast minority, unconditional public. Even the primitive New Orleans, with the band of Woody Allen and others.

There are now more jazz musicians than ever in its history, but it is also true that fewer disks are sold in stores, and only one has to ask. It is best to look on the internet and not the market the major labels, but small independent labels or the musicians themselves. The discs are worth us fans to remember and learn.

Anyway with discs musicians earn little, the solution has been and will do concerts at festivals and clubs again, to make the public dance, participate and have fun, as in the beginning, but very few in Europe They understand and like dance music, it is, there is always something primitive style swing, which invites you to move your feet.

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