The History

of Jazz
The Content:

1. What is Jazz and its origin.

2. Different Jazz types and their differences.
3. Famous Jazz artists and their origin.
4. Different Jazz instruments and how to play them
5. The positive and negative effects of Jazz.
History of jazz

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Jazz music originated in the Its influence around the artists The end of its dominance after
late nineteenth to early and countries on the world. the“Great Depression” and its
twentieth century. evolving.
 The origin of Jazz

Jazz originated in New Orleans in the second half of the 19th century.West Africa, the birthplace of many slaves,
was home to rich musical traditions which continued in the songs and field chants of the America’s slaves. When
the American Civil War ended (1865), many former slaves found jobs as musicians, exposing them to other musical
styles from around the world. Jazz was born into this new world of emancipation and freedom, stimulating a spirit
of experimentation and expression which would be key elements to jazz.

The influence of Jazz

Jazz is often thought of as being founded on the musical traditions of West Africa and Europe. Early jazz also incorporated church
hymns, slave songs, field chants, and cuban-style rhythm. However, jazz didn’t get it’s big break until the 1890s when 
“ragtime”, a precursor to jazz”, started to catch the ear of white Americans. The most famous of the artists at the time was Scott Joplin
who composed 44 original ragtime pieces before his death in 1917. It was around this time that other artists started to add in
improvisation to the sound, a crucial component of what would become modern jazz.

The aftermath of the “Great Depression”

The Jazz age really started in the 1920s when the music became popular across the US and Europe. The “Roaring Twenties” with
prohibition, speakeasies, flappers and music drove jazz into the mainstream and made overnight success stories of black musicians such
as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie. The age of Jazz culminated in the historic 1938 Benny Goodman concert at
Carnegie Hall, bringing together musicians from various ethnicities to perform jazz inside this hallowed hall. At this point, the jazz of the
1920s and 30s was already starting to give way to the Big Band era although musicians such as Ellington and Armstrong would continue
to develop jazz until their deaths.
Despite the dominance of jazz ending with the Great Depression, the music has continued to evolve with new styles and sub-genres
forming as its influence on pop-culture continues to echo through time.
Some styles

1.Bepop 2.Early Jazz

“I came through the “ If America has a future,
bebop era, and to me that Jazz has a future. The two
was enough.” are inseparable.”

3.Big Band 4.Latin Jazz

“The blues and jazz will  “Jazz stands for
live forever. So will the freedom.”
Delta and the Big Easy.”
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Section
Bebop
Bebop, also called bop, the first kind of
modern jazz, which split jazz into two
opposing camps in the last half of the 1940s.
The word is an onomatopoeic rendering of a
staccato two-tone phrase distinctive in this type
of music. ... Thus the harmonic territory open
to the jazz soloist was vastly increased.
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Section
Early Jazz
Its Roots and Musical Development, by Gunther
Schuller, is a seminal study of jazz from its origins
through the early 1930s, first published in 1968.It has
since been translated into five languages. When it was
published, it was the first volume of a projected two
volume history of jazz through the Swing era. The book
takes an enthusiastic tone to its subject. A notable feature
of the series is transcriptions of jazz performances, which
increase its value for the musically literate.
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Section
Big Band
A big band is a type of musical ensemble of jazz
music that usually consists of ten or more
musicians with four sections: saxophones,
trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big
bands originated during the early 1910s and
dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was
most popular. The term "big band" is also used to
describe a genre of music, although this was not the
only style of music played by big bands.
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Section
Latin Jazz
Latin jazz is a genre of jazz with Latin American
rhythms. The two main categories are Afro-
Cuban jazz, rhythmically based on Cuban
popular dance music, with a rhythm section
employing ostinato patterns or a clave, and Afro-
Brazilian jazz, which includes samba and bossa
nova.
Great representatives of jazz

Louis Armstrong Frank Sinatra Stan Getz

“What a wonderful “You may be a puzzle, “You don't rehearse jazz
world” but I like the way the to death to get the
parts fit.” camera angles.”

Ron Carter
 ”I am from the
planet of elegance.”
Fameous Jazz artist

1.Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong was one of jazz’s most
significant founding fathers and played a
profoundly influential role in exporting the
music to other parts of the world. He was
not only a brilliant trumpeter who could
dazzle with his hardswinging molten
improvisations but also an expressive jazz
singer who possessed a unique, gravel-
textured voice. He helped to popularize jazz
in the 1920s and enjoyed a long and fruitful
career that saw notable collaborations.
2.Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra had several
nicknames ,but the one that spoke
volumes about his talent as a jazz
singer was the most telling one:
“The Voice.” From Hoboken, New
Jersey, Sinatra rose to fame in the
big band era and first came on the
radar of record buyers singing with
the Harry James and Tommy
Dorsey bands. Phrasing melodies
like a jazz horn player, Sinatra
cemented his fame as a solo artist at
Capitol Records in the 1950s where
his themed concept albums In The
Wee Small Hours and Frank
Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely
showed him to be a pop innovator.
3.Stan Getz
Though born in Philadelphia, the tenor
saxophonist Stan Getz, whose nickname
was “The Sound,” became synonymous
with west coast cool jazz that emerged in
California during the 1950s. Famed for
producing a gorgeously feathery tone that
caressed the ear, Getz also played a major
role in exposing the bossa nova sound to
the wider US public, first with the LP
Jazz Samba in 1962 and then, two years
later when he collaborated with Brazilian
maestro Joao Gilberto on the landmark
album Getz/Gilberto, which featured the
hit single “Girl From Ipanema” sung by
Gilberto’s then wife, Astrud. Essential
Album: Jazz Samba
4.Ron Carter
One of the great jazz session musicians of
all time, no jazz bass player in history has
made more appearances than Michigan-
born Ron Carter, whose recording credits
exceed 2,000. Admired for his rich, full-
bodied tone, acute musical intelligence,
and nimble-fingered virtuosity, Carter
recorded with Eric Dolphy and Milt
Jackson in the early 60s before Miles
Davis recruited him and helped make him
a star in his “Second Great Quintet”
between 1962 and 1968. After leaving
Miles’ band, Carter became an
omnipresent figure of the US session
scene, appearing on records by artists as
varied as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Paul
Simon, and Roberta Flack.
Different Instruments

Drums Saxaphone Piano

 1.Saxaphone
The saxophone is a type of single-reed 
woodwind instrument with a conical body,
usually made of brass. As with all single-reed
instruments, sound is produced when a reed on
a mouthpiece vibrates to produce a sound wave
inside the instrument's body. The pitch is
controlled by opening and closing holes in the
body to change the effective length of the
tube.The holes are closed by leather pads
attached to keys operated by the player.
Saxophones are made in various sizes and are
almost always treated as 
transposing instruments. Saxophone players are
called saxophonists.
 2. Drums
Jazz drumming is the art of playing percussion
(predominantly the drum set, which includes a
variety of drums and cymbals) in jazz styles
ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to
1970s-era jazz fusion and 1980s-era Latin jazz.
The techniques and instrumentation of this type
of performance have evolved over several
periods, influenced by jazz at large and the
individual drummers within it. Stylistically, this
aspect of performance was shaped by its starting
place, New Orleans, as well as numerous other
regions of the world, including other parts of the
United States, the Caribbean, and Africa.
3. Piano
Jazz piano is a collective term for the techniques
pianists use when playing jazz. The piano has
been an integral part of the jazz idiom since
its inception, in both solo and ensemble
settings. Its role is multifaceted due largely to
the instrument's combined melodic and
harmonic capabilities. For this reason it is an
important tool of jazz musicians and
composers for teaching and learning jazz
theory and set arrangement, regardless of
their main instrument. By extension the
phrase 'jazz piano' can refer to similar
techniques on any keyboard instrument.
 The positive The negative
effects of Jazz
VS
effects of Jazz:
 Positive effects
Black jazz musicians were less credited for their
invention and innovation of jazz music. Jazz music

Negative effects created a sense of identity, originality, and social

cohesion among black musicians, but they were
Jazz music has created a sense of integration
between blacks and whites in the industry. seldom credited with inventing it. Kofsky (1998)
Buster Bailey, a black jazz musician said, believes that this refusal of whites to credit blacks
“One thing I’m happy to see is the integration is because they refused to equate anything valuable
that’s happening among musicians” (qtd. in with African Americans. According to Miles Davis,
Means, 1968, p. 22). Discrimination still this is the case because “the white man likes to win
existed, but in the jazz community, musicians everything. White people like to see other white
were somehow considered as equals. Whites
people win…
were hired to perform in several black bands
and the white trombonist Roswell Rudd was
introduced to jazz audiences by Archie Shepp
(Gerard, 1998). Means (1968) cites Monroe
Berger who notes that jazz music created
black-white contact where a black musician
received full acceptance as an equal and was
“(often admired as superior) without
condescension” (Means, 1998, p. 17).
 Conclusions
● Jazz goes all the way back to the 19 th century

and it influenced many countries right before

the “Great Depression” .
● Jazz has had a lot of positive and negative
affections in the community since its birth.
● Jazz has introduced us to many new artists,
instruments and types of jazz.
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