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Jazz history

Posted by Jibril on Wednesday, November 9, 2011


Jazz is a musical meeting between European and African music that evolved from the life of blacks in American society who are oppressed. The birth of music is influenced by tribal drums, gospel music, blues and field hollers. Basic instruments of jazz music was originally used musical instruments that they use the marching band to accompany the funeral African American community residents in New Orleans. Members of a marching band was in part a musician in jazz groups start a self-taught and plays an important role inearly development of jazz music
At first the music is synonymous with the negative things that smell of sex / women naughty and nightlife venues so that gets called "jazz". Most of the early jazz musicians play their music in various bars and nightclubs in the area of ​​localization around Basin Street, New Orleans (Storyville). But then this music into a music both in composition and improvisation that reflects melodies spontaneously. Even now jazz has an exclusive, classy and respectable.
Jazz music originated from New Orleans and get the influence from various music there. A joke but it is believed is that jazz start time after a hair shop owner in New Orleans named Buddy Bolden blew his cornet, until half a century later gave many contributions to jazz in the music world, in studying at various universities and eventually became one of music flow into account.
In 1919 jazz musicians from New Orleans that is Kid Ory's Original Creole Jazz Band concert in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. And in 1922 they became the first black band from New Orleans who made the recording. At that time, jazz was starting to catch on, develop and begin ogled the white musicians. The first collaboration between musicians blacks and whites occurred in 1926 when Jelly Roll Morton did a recording together with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. At the same time has begun to be played in a jazz orchestra or big band format, not only with a small band consisting of four or five people. Famous jazz bands that influenced the birth of Swing is the Fletcher Henderson band and Duke Ellington band in New York and the Earl Hines of Chicago.
In early 1930 most of the bands that wing groups began to adopt the style swing jazz. Swing is the jazz that developed in 1930 and became a separate flow five years later. Swing became the most popular music in America in late 1930 to akhir1940's. The popularity of swing decreased because of World War II that made it difficult to gather musicians to form a big band, big band tour cost was very expensive and the musicians union strike at tahun1942-1948 so there are no official records produced. Swing then transformed into a new stream of jump blues and bebop.
Meanwhile in European jazz style developed in France with the advent of Quintette Du Hot Club De France in 1934. Guitar legend Django Reinhardt popularized Belgium called Gypsies jazz (swing mix of American and French dance music of Eastern European folk music added.) There was also a latin jazz (a combination of African, Latin American, jazz, classical Harmony Latin America, Caribbean, Europe and America).
Around the 1940's young jazz musicians create new music of different styles of swing music style, they changed the dance music beyond jazz into music that is more artistic flavor and a bit complicated. This style is called bibop and is the music to be heard not to dance.
In the same year jazz musicians began to include elements of ragtime into a variety of their work. Ragtime is the flow of Native American music that ever popular between the years 1897-1918. Ragtime was originally played at various bars and low-class nightclub in St. Louis and New Orleans by those blacks who did not get a job after the United States abolished slavery.
At the end of 1940 to the 1950s many jazz musicians who have retired again plunge the world of jazz. They play back songs in its heyday before the smell Dixieland / Hot Jazz / New Orleans jazz and try to create new songs with innovative performances, called progressive Dixieland (Dixieland traditional melody combined with the rhythm of bebop).
During World War II, many jazz musicians who were white from California came to New York. They were then mixed with bebop musicians, mostly black. Thus was born the cool jazz that is a combination of California jazz, bebop and get the influence of Lester Young saksophone game calm and relaxed. Further more cool jazz in the know with west coast jazz. In addition to developing into cool jazz, bebop was also developed into hardbop (combined rhythm and blues, gospel music and blues, especially in the game saksophone and piano) and started to develop in the 1950s.
Hardbop music that gets stronger influence from blues, gospel and rhythm and blues, emphasizing the groove and the shrill repetition of melody, improvisation simpler known as soul jazz.
In 1950 an era of growing dan1960 music free jazz that emerged from the disappointment due to restrictions in bebop jazz, hardbop and modal jazz. A number of musicians with their own way trying to develop jazz jazz at the time also return back to the primitive or religious roots of jazz.
In the 1960s-era jazz fusion munculah namely the flow of music combined jazz with various musical genres ranging from soft like classical music to hard like metal music. In a jazz fusion album can contain a wide variety of music. At the same time rock musicians also began to incorporate elements of jazz into their songs. The heady days of jazz fusion began in the era of the 1970s until now. Some groups who brought the genre of jazz is Return to Forever, Weather Report, The Mahavisnu Orchestra, Chick Corea Elektric Band, Tribal Tech and Miles Davis.
In Indonesia alone jazz music has entered the era of the 30s that is brought by Filipino musicians seeking work in Jakarta with playing music. They play this music at major hotels Indonesia at that time. In 1948 the Dutch musicians come to Indonesia and form a symphony orchestra that includes local musicians.

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