Jazz music (Iván Fuentes)

WHAT IS JAZZ MUSIC?

 Jazz is an American musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States.

ORIGINS OF JAZZ MUSIC

 The essence of the sound of Jazz music is so versatile due to the origins from which it first began. In fact, New Orleans, Louisiana is the place where Jazz first began between 1850 and 1900 by African slaves as well as the freed people of color. The first style of Jazz music was known as Dixieland.

FIRST INSTRUMENTS IN JAZZ


 In the beginning of the century the instruments used in Jazz music were European percussion, brass and woodwind instruments primarily for the military marching or dance bands


JAZZ CENTERS OF THE 1920S:

 New Orleans:
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, African American musicians began gathering in New Orleans. They would congregate to improvise and share their music in Storyville. Early jazz musicians often called New Orleans their home

 Chicago:

Chicago in the 1920s held great opportunities for musicians.
King Oliver is the best example of the shift in style that occurred when musicians moved from New Orleans to Chicago

 New York:
The early New York Jazz music was influenced by ragtime music
whole genre of Jazz poetry evolved in New York. These poems confirm that early jazz also appealed to people on a spiritual, intellectual and philosophical level.

 Kansas City:

By 1920, Kansas city was booming. Jazz could be heard on nearly every street corner. Jazz musicians poured into Kansas City after the mass exodus from New Orleans.
One of the most significant contributions of the Kansas City jazz musicians was the way they propelled jazz toward the Big Bands of the 1930s.

JAZZ MUSICIANS OF THE 20S

Louis Amstrong
Armstrong influenced not only trumpeters but, directly or indirectly, nearly all subsequent instrumental and vocal jazz music.
. He is best known for helping to pioneer a style known as swing, which later formed the basis for most jazz music.

 Duke Ellington

Considered one of the greatest jazz composers of all time, Duke Ellington had an enormous impact on the popular music of the late 20th century.
Ellington called his style and sound "American Music" rather than Jazz.

 Billie Holiday
Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style — strongly inspired by instrumentalists — pioneered a new way of manipulating wording and tempo, and also popularized a more personal and intimate approach to singing.

 Bessie Smith
She’s been considered as "the first complete jazz singer”, whose influence on Billie Holiday and a whole generation of jazz singers cannot be overestimated.
She was certainly the first singer on jazz records to value diction, not for itself, but as a vehicle for conveying emotional states.

JAZZ AND WOMEN'S LIBERATION:

During the 1920s, jazz music provided the motivation and opportunity for many women to reach beyond the traditional sex role designated to them by society.

BOTTOM CULTURE RISES

 African American jazz music swept throughout the country during the 1920s. Jazz music was able to gain respect as an African American art form. For the first time in history, the culture of a minority became the desire of the majority.