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    David Kordik Jazz - The Music of America During the early 1900’s, a new style of music began to take shape in the colorful city of New Orleans. People from all over the world came to exchange stories, conversation, and music. Although it is a very hard genre of music to define, it is said that Jazz is the combination of European and African music that was brought in via the ports. With mostly an African American population, the musicians shared their music in Storyville - a cultural melting pot

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    The Origins Of Jazz Music

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    Jazz origins within New Orleans and key musicians The aim of this paper is to explore the origins of Jazz music, where it came from the key players and it’s lasting influence as one of the most celebrated and discussed musical idioms. The main topics this paper will be covering how we how we got Jazz through western traditional music and the improvisation and syncopation of the African American slaves, what is Ragtime and why is it so influential, the early pioneers in Jazz such as Buddy Bolden

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    your life? This is something funny for me because I love the Jazz music and when I have the opportunity to make my concert review, I thought that the best opinion that I can give you is about the jazz music. I was checking around because I did not have the opportunity to see an event of jazz music here in Reno so I checked in YouTube and I choose one of the most incredible concerts that I have never seen in my life. The international Jazz Day. One of the most important days that many people are joining

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    tempo), that rather frequently were marching bands, or single pianists, who quite commonly were jazz pianists. Contrary to blues music, that was particularly done by afro-americans, jazz music was as inter-racial as the fusion of New Orleans. Blacks were not the just one that performed jazz. Jazz bands were established by Italians, Creoles and entire type of European settlers. The "African" origins of the music might or might not have been evident to the professionals, but precisely it did not prevent

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    year of musical instruction. In this ensemble, the students will be exposed to different styles of the American musical art form of jazz which would include but not be limited to: swing, bebop, ballads, Latin/Afro-Cuban, and Commercial (Rock). The big band will rehearse and perform pieces and arrangements of the preceding styles as well as work on introductory jazz improvisatory skills (language, chord relationships, scale relationships, etc.). Along with being within a big band setting, the students

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    Karley Dodd N.Tolbert History 1301 5 February 2018 The Beginning of Jazz and Blues Music Jazz was born in New Orleans nearly one hundred years ago. It’s roots can be found in the musical traditions of Africa and Europe. In fact, some people say that jazz is the perfect combination of African and European music. From African music, jazz got its: rhythm and "feel", "blues" quality, some even say it originated from the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from slaves

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    Background of Jazz Jazz is still considered as etymology obscure as the origin and the background of the music is still unclear to the society. According to The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd Edition by Kennedy Michael (1994), page 445 : “Jazz is a term which came into general use for a type of music which developed in the Southern States of United States of America in the late 19th century and came into prominence at the turn of the century in New Orleans, chiefly (but not exclusively) among

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    The Jazz Age is notably one of the most famous periods in the history of the United States. It was a span in the 1920s between the end of World War I and the beginning of the great Depression. The Jazz Age, otherwise known as the Roaring 20’s or the Flapper Era, is characterized by creativeness and a lively, strong rhythm. The Jazz Age is most well-known for its musical style, dances, modern ideas, extravagant ways of living, fashion, and new inventions. The Roaring 20’s is a very important era in

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    Music is a form of art that is expressed through the creation of sound based on several cultures throughout the world. New Orleans Jazz is a genre of music originating in the 19th century that allowed people, especially of African American decent, to feel to express their love and excitement for the jubilant music. Jazz is a unique style of music that is often performed by brass band musicians using simple instruments to create a distinctive musical sound. Two distinguished musicians, Louis Armstrong

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    September 2015 Classical music and Jazz What people come up with when they hear the words “classical music” is a big concert hall, while what people come up with is a small bar or something when they hear “jazz”. It seems they are different as they are named differently, but are they really different? Also, given that the mainstream in the music industry is popular music, both classical music and jazz are not appreciated by many people, but how have these two music survived up until today? Firstly

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