How to distinguish the types of various subdivisions under jazz?

Jazz, which is what we usually call jazz, originated in the United States at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20 th century. This kind of music is based on blues and ragtime music. The greatest feature of jazz is that it pays attention to improvisation and is based on the shuffle rhythm with distinctive swing characteristics. Jazz is a combination of African black culture and European white culture.

Nowadays, jazz is popular all over the world, and has evolved into different styles and schools in different development periods. Although they all belong to the category of jazz, they all have distinct characteristics. The main styles and genres of jazz include: New Orleans jazz, swing music, Bibop jazz, cool jazz, free jazz and so on. Jazz has derived many styles and schools in different development periods, which is relatively common. Their differences are as follows:

New Orleans jazz, also known as traditional jazz, is the origin of jazz. This style of jazz music is dominated by four or two beats, with the feeling of parade music and circus music, and the overall style is cheerful and cheerful.

Swing music, born out of traditional jazz, is different from traditional jazz by adding elements of swing music. This kind of jazz is also the only jazz used for dancing. The dance accompanied by this kind of swing dance music is called swing dance, which has a relaxed and cheerful style and is mainly performed by a large number of big bands.

Bibo jazz was born in the era of the highest jazz playing skills. Since then, jazz has bid farewell to the era of pop music. The biggest feature is that in order to show its superb playing skills, it obviously accelerates the playing speed, composes more freely and improvises, incorporates complex and rich harmony parts, and the melody is more intense and exciting, full of dazzling elements of technology.

Cool jazz originated from Bipop, which is characterized by its slow speed and gloomy style, expanding the blank space of music, increasing the sense of space of music and giving people more room for daydreaming.

Free jazz is one of the freest art forms. The biggest feature of this kind of jazz is to make subversive creation in one or more aspects of music melody, rhythm or harmony, or to give up completely. This jazz style is very chaotic, which sounds like chaotic noise and is often incomprehensible to ordinary listeners.