Jazz English

Jazz, a genre of music, originated in the United States at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century, and was born in the southern port city of New Orleans. Its music comes from blues and ragtime music. Jazz pays attention to improvisation, based on the swaying rhythm of shuffling, and is a combination of African black culture and European white culture.

In the first decade of the 20th century, jazz developed mainly in New Orleans. 19 17 and then moved to Chicago, and then moved to new york in 1930. Jazz became popular all over the world. The main styles of jazz are: New Orleans jazz, swing music, Bibop jazz, cold jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz, fusion jazz and so on.

During the19th century, music was an important means for black slaves to express their lives and feelings on plantations in the southern United States. From the end of 19, jazz was based on traditional British and American music, and it was a product of "mixed blood", combining blues, ragtime and other music types.

African-American music retains many African characteristics, obvious rhythm characteristics and collective improvisation characteristics. The combination of this tradition and the music (mainly vocal music) of the new residence not only produces a new sound, but also produces a brand-new musical expression.

Artistic features:

Among the tunes of jazz, apart from the elements absorbed from European traditional music, white folk songs and popular songs, the most distinctive one is the "blues scale" (we will introduce the structure of this scale in the part about blues). Jazz harmony can be said to be completely based on traditional harmony, but it is more free to use various chords.

A major difference is also brought by blues chords. Jazz is very distinctive in musical instruments and playing methods, which is completely different from traditional bands. Since the Jazz Age, saxophone has become one of the best-selling musical instruments. Trombones can play funny or grotesque sliding sounds that other brass instruments can't play, so they cause a sensation in jazz bands.