Have you ever listened jazz music and what image of jazz do you have ? My image of jazz is cool . Now, I'm showing you about jazz history.
Today, the mention of jazz reminds people of New york city, but the birthplace of jazz is New Orleans. There are two important factors. First, the existence of a black slave. They have their own folk song ;African folk song. The fork song have mixed with church music and Blues was born. Blues developped into jazz , rock , soul , and motown. In parallel with this ,a white developped country music . This music is result of european folk song. The country song developped into bluegrass and honky-tonk.
From them ,a genre called swing jazz was born . It is called big band. In 1940's, a greate musician apperared. The musician's name is Miles Davis. He developed jazz remarkably.By apperarance of Miles Davis, the form of jazz band changed into piano trio, quartet, quintet, and so on. Then , the center of jazz moved from New Orleans to New York . in New York, genres called Bossa Nova and Latin music were born.
How was the history of jazz? If you interested in jazz music , let's go to CD shop!!
1 comment:
Oh, I love jazz, all types. My favorite jazz musician is Alice Coltrane, who died recently. Do you know her? She was John Coltrane's widow, but a famous musician in her own right.
Black and white music aren't really parallel, though. That implies they don't meet. In fact they have been influencing each other in the United States since before it was the United States, i.e. since colonial times. Bossa Nova is a Brazilian music and Brazilian is only one kind of Latin Music. Latin Jazz is another.
Jazz doesn't belong only to the United States any more. Since American soldiers went to France in 1917 it has been in Europe, too. France is proud of having the oldest jazz in Europe. Japan has jazz too, even though it was forbidden under the militarists. The American Occupation was the golden age of jazz in Japan.
I used to teach a unit of poetry in this class when it was a full year course, by having the students write four verses of twelve bar blues. Do you know twelve bar blues? It's easy to write, but hard to write well.
Let me know if you think I should teach some blues in this class.
BTW, my daughter likes the movie "Swing Girls." I imagine you do, too.
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