Early Jazz

Jazz 's Early History Jazz started in the United States and was a fundamentally strange musical style. Jazz music first appeared in New Orleans, eventually moved to Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and New York City. Jazz is a combination of various elements of African, African American, religious, brass and blues music style. Jazz music and its many years of change are now in the form of well-known music throughout the country and the world.

Improvisation is the most distinctive feature of jazz. Improvisation and music making. Jazz musicians perform using printed music and they perform solo improvisation. Improvisation is the center of jazz from early jazz group improvisation to independent improvisation to Louis Armstrong's Albert Ayl, Olnet Coleman, John Cortland's free jazz. Swing is the basic rhythm of jazz. Swing means enjoying in sync with other people. As a jazz style swing, it first appeared during the Great Depression. Optimistic optimism of swing enhances the spirit of everyone in the United States. In the mid - 1930 's, known as "Swing" era, swing dance becomes our national dance, and the big band is playing this style of music. The best bands at the time were Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Paul Whiteman, and Benny Goodman.

One of the founder of Johnson (1894 - 1955) style piano which combined Ragtime and blues, improvisation play led the development of early jazz. He is influencing jazzmasters such as Count Basie and Duke Ellington. I created "Charleston" which is one of the Lagtai time songs signed in the 1920s and was considered one of the best jazz pianists in his generation. Encouraged by his hero Scott Joplin, Lam (1887 - 1960) announced a lot of cloth between 1908 and 1920. He is a member of "Big Three" Ragtime composer including Joplin and James Scott. He is an Irish composer, the only rugtime composer who is not a heritage of an African American.

As the predecessor of early jazz, the music of Ragtime is of comparable importance with blues - probably in terms of its impact beyond that. Indeed, in the early days of New Orleans jazz, the boundary between lager and jazz performance was very delicate, and the two terms were often used interchangeably. In later thinking, you can clearly distinguish between the two types, but the reason for this subtle explanation is far from clear in the context of New Orleans African American music at the turn of the century. In his recording at the US Congress library, Jelly Roll Morton showed a comparison of the two ways to play Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag". One reflects the tradition of Missouri Lagham. It is a method.