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Chapter 7 - Jazz Music- Deep and Profound Music!
What can you foretell from the word Jazz?? A lot of people think that jazz music is for elite and rich people. But if we go through the history of jazz music then we will see that it is the opposite. Jazz music is considered to be the elementary form of music in our lives. It helps in depicting our appearance in the form of music. The tradition of jazz music, evolved from the black, demoralized community in America. These black people used to play drums along with their music and danced on it. So from this we can very well illustrate that jazz was very close to the human lives.
Talking about the origin of the word ‘jazz’, you will be shocked to know that this word derived from a very offensive term which means sexual acts. But with time jazz became a musical art form which depicted impulsive melodies. The jazz musicians used to play the music which could touch the heart of everyone. They used to express the feelings with their music that was not easily explained. Jazz music was mainly influenced by wide range of music like ragtime, cakewalks and blues.
One of the legends of jazz music is ‘Buddy Bolden’ who basically was an owner of hair salon in New Orleans around 1891. This was a breakthrough in the jazz music and later on it contributed a lot to the American jazz music. Today jazz is studied in many universities around the globe. Students who love music take serious classes on this music form.
It is also said that jazz was more well-known in the swing era in the 1930’s and with time it became established as a major music form. By the year 1950 everyone was well versed with the term ‘jazz’. One more important point to be mentioned here is that the famous music form in jazz is ‘Blues’ music. If we are talking about jazz music then we cannot forget blues. The capability of playing blues music has become must for all jazz musicians today. The musicians who play blues music often use guitar and harmonica.
Today jazz music is a well known music form which is known by everyone. There are so many famous musicians who are famous for their jazz music. The music lovers should deeply understand this music form as it is full of emotions and sentiments.
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