What this article wants to share with you is "past lives's Past Life of Jazz".
/kloc-in the 0 th and 9 th centuries, many relatively free blacks emerged in New Orleans under the rule of the French. According to local laws, the freedom of marriage between blacks and whites promoted the birth of a number of mixed-race children. They have been exposed since childhood, inheriting the elements of free improvisation in African black traditional blues and gospel music, as well as the elements of harmony in orthodox and educated white classical music. This disguised form promoted the birth of jazz.
Sir New Orleans and Sir Dixieland (Sir New Orleans &; Dixieland jazz):
From 65438 to 0895, Buddy Bolden, a trumpeter in New Orleans, Louisiana, formed a band, which is usually considered as the year when jazz was born. At that time, brass bands in New Orleans were often used for some activities (such as parades, banquets, funerals, etc.). ) These brass bands don't just repeat some melodies, but because most band members can't read music, they usually play a short piece of ensemble melody and improvise. Improvisation is an important part of jazz, in other words, improvisation is the specialty of any excellent jazz musician.
In fact, before this, there was a kind of music called ragtime, which was the earliest real black music in American history. From 1898 to 1908, Ragtime entered a golden age. This kind of music characterized by slow 2/4 beat rhythm and syncopation is considered as early jazz.
? Although it is generally believed that 1895 is the first year of jazz, the first jazz record in history appeared in 19 17. It was recorded in New Orleans by a jazz band called Primitive Dixieland. Before that, jazz in New Orleans could only be known from some ancient music scores and videos.
Dixieland, as its name implies, is a kind of jazz with the theme of military camp, which is usually played by some white musicians. Jazz musicians use local materials and refer to some improvisations such as Bruce, ragtime and March. Because Sir Dixieland was very popular in Chicago in the early 1920s, it was also called Chicago Jazz.
? Swing jazz
191920s, with the emergence of a large number of dance bands influenced by jazz, sometimes a band needs three or four trumpeters. In this case, it is difficult for bands to improvise and need to record music scores, which promotes the birth of swing music.
Swing music is usually 4/4 beats faster, so it is also called "four beats jazz" by swing music. Because this rhythm is lively and vivid, people can't help wriggling and dancing with it, so swing music is often used in some entertainment places such as dance halls. In 1930s and 1940s, with the popularity of Benny Goodman Orchestra, large swing bands gradually became popular. Until 1946, with the end of the big band era, swing music gradually declined.
? What needs to be mentioned here is that the so-called big band usually refers to a jazz band with 10 to 25 musicians, including melody groups (saxophone, trumpet, trombone, vibrato, trombone, etc. ) and rhythm groups (piano, guitar, bass, drums, etc. ).
Bebop
Bibopo, also called BOPP, appeared in the early 1940s as a radical jazz style, which was founded by trumpeter John buchs, Gullers Pi and saxophonist Charlie Parker. This type of jazz music inherits the previous improvisation on the basis of swing music. Usually, after playing the first ensemble, we begin to abandon the melody and improvise on the basis of harmony. This type of jazz is radical because it is very risky and usually plays very fast (of course, not all).
? Bibopo era is the era that requires the highest playing skills in the history of jazz development. This style of jazz greatly improves its own artistry and greatly weakens its commercial value. Since then, jazz has completely bid farewell to the category of pop music. Sir Bibop is also considered as the pioneer of modern jazz (mainstream jazz).
This article ends here. As for "Jazz past lives", please look forward to it!