Jazz music is the transliteration of English Jazz. Some people think that jazz music is foreign obscene dance music, which is unhealthy and decadent. In fact, judging from its origin and popularity, it is far from being such a generalization.

Jazz music originated from black African music. In the early 17th century, when a large number of black people were sold to the Americas and became slaves, they also brought the music of their hometown to the Americas. Black people love singing and dancing. During those difficult years, they always sought sustenance and comfort each other in singing. As a result, this kind of music with African melodies and rhythms became popular in America.

Black people are good at playing instrumental music. Earlier, their instruments were mainly stringed instruments. Since the end of the American Civil War in the 1860s, emancipated black slaves have obtained many brass instruments left by soldiers during the Civil War. They creatively used brass horns to imitate human voices when playing, turning the bugles into "singing pipes", which became a basic feature of jazz music in the future. Another feature of jazz music is a kind of piano music called "ragtime"-when the player's right hand changes the rhythm in various sudden ways, the rhythm of the left hand remains fixed, resulting in a kind of syncopation. sound effect.

Jazz music developed as "entertainment music" for poor black people. The performance of this kind of music was initially limited to small bars and dance halls in black areas. Those "higher whites" don't come quietly to such places. However, with the popularity of jazz music, many white bands also began to imitate this tune and developed a fast dance music called "Dichonsland", but it was still based on black music.

By the 1920s and 1930s of this century, jazz music had become a form of music popular with the masses in the West. It is not only a kind of music to accompany dancing, but also developed into music specially for appreciation. Many famous jazz bands, performers and singers emerged, and many people with higher musical education also participated in such bands or composed music for them.