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1. In this way, jazz is different from classical music which is written down (composed) ahead of time and played the way the composer wrote it. 2. In jazz, the music heard during the musicians’ solos is “spontaneously composed” by the musicians themselves and played the way the musicians feel at that given moment. 3.
May 24, 2012 · Jazz has all the elements that other music has: It has melody; that's the tune of the song, the part you're most likely to remember. It has harmony, the notes that make the melody sound...
The improvisational aspect of jazz makes it incredibly unique compared to other musical styles; there are no set rules for how a song should be played or performed because each musician brings his/her own interpretation into each performance!
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According to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary(Revised Edition 2006) jazz is "a type of music of Black American origin characterised by improvisation, syncopation, and a regular rhythm, and typically played on brass and woodwind instruments." The origin of the word itself is given as "early 20th Century: of unknown origin." The music commonly r...
Perhaps one has to rely on ideas that pick up more on the experience than on any attempted academic definition, with phrases such as Whitney Balliett's "Sound of Surprise" (1961), which he elaborated on to describe jazz as "a highly personal, lightweight form—like poetry, it is an art of surprise—that, shaken down, amounts to the blues, some unique...
The beauty of jazz, the magnificence of jazz, is that it reproduces and amplifies those sounds, time after time, moment after moment, in ways that speak directly to the heart and ears of the listener as no other music does. Keith Jarrett, using a photographic metaphor in speaking of jazz, said that while classical music was like a photograph of a c...
The one thing that most jazz musicians and writers agree on is that jazz "swings", by which is not meant the "swing" style of the 1930s and 1940s, but something that jazz has but cannot be adequately described. South African jazz musician Chris McGregor wrote in a 1964 article in the arts journal The Classic.edited by Barney Simon, that the term "s...
To look at the term "improvisation" is to look at another important aspect of jazz that is often misunderstood. As Fordham writes, an enduring misconception is that "jazz performers simply make it all up as they go along, freewheeling without structure or theory."
Discover the origins and evolution of jazz music, a genre that blends classical, blues and folk influences. Learn more with Classical Music.
Every style of Jazz is played all around the world today, and two qualities that make it truly distinctive are improvisation, and attention to staying in the present. Additionally, Jazz music while absorbing influences from many genres, maintains it’s identity as Jazz.
How Jazz Works. Louis Armstrong performs in Paris in 1965. Dixieland, swing, bebop, acid jazz, hard bop and fusion -- these are only a few of the variations of jazz that have developed over the past 100 years. They can sound drastically different from one another, yet we call them all "jazz."
