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The Historical Origin of Jazz
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The origin of jazz

Jazz comes from blues, a folk music of African slaves and their descendants, who used to live in the southern United States. Bruce was deeply influenced by West African culture and music tradition, and these slaves gradually became black musicians who migrated to the city.

The real origin of jazz is poverty. 1865, the American civil war ended. In the past, black slaves were free, but their lives were still very difficult. Most of them can't read, and they only entertain themselves by the music cultivated in their native land. Singing labor trumpets and agricultural songs when picking cotton, singing hymns and hymns at church gatherings in apartheid, and improvising with banjo accompaniment by solo singers. In the church, the black priest adopted the English lead singing method to solve the problem of singing without words.

The standard form of concerts in the last century, that is, the music of military bands and dance bands at that time, influenced the earliest mainstream expression of jazz. These instruments: brass instruments, reed instruments and drums have become the basic instruments of jazz.