Jazz emerged as an identifiable and distinct musical genre around 1900. Before this year extends the history of the long period, during which merged all the music and social components. For this period there is considerable testimony.
It is assumed that the origins of jazz music is African. The black slaves who - coming mainly from West Africa - again in the south of the United States moved part of their traditions, including particularly sacred traditions and music African features such as rhythmic complexity and abstract musical scales. Again even certain types of song and music forms as well as diversity and improvisation.
Although there is great difficulty to define jazz as a whole, a definition that states in part the content is that it is a music in which the musician performs melodic variations on a given harmonic basis and is in dialogue with the rhythmic pulse. Of course, in the second half of the 20th century, when the avant-garde jazz rejected the predetermined harmonic model, the definition is not considered adequate for all types of Jazz.
The music of jazz, there is painful to known elements of music common to every musical genre such as Scales, chords, the melody, rhythm, harmony, to be able, the melodies he hears in his mind to guide his fingers in a truly personal expression in a dialogue with himself, the musicians who accompany him and the public.
The etymology of the word jazz remains unsolved although at times different opinions prevailed. According to one version, the Jazz got its name from the dancer Tzazmpo Brown while another says that the name comes from jazz to shorten the name of a musician Charles (Charles, chas, jass, jazz) or Jasper.
It is said also that the word jazz was formed from the French verb jaser (the whites of New Orleans was talking in French) means waffle because chatter suggesting improvisation.
[The inrtoductory articles, photos, song selection and the creation of each compilation is made by the publication team of the magazine]
Track list and more info:
[Chuck Mangione] Recorded: 1978 more>>
[Bacharach/David] Recorded: 1969 more>>
[Don Cherry] Recorded: 1988 more>>
[Miles Davis] Recorded: 1992 more>>
[James Brown/Bert Jones] Recorded: 1988 more>>
[Dmitri Tiomkin/Ned Washington] Recorded: 1965 more>>
[Charles Mingus] Recorded: 1960 more>>
[Seymour Lefco/Clement Wells Jr.] Recorded: 1964 more>>
[Nacio Herb Brown/Gus Kuhn] Recorded: 1960 more>>
[Gil Evans] Recorded: 1964 more>>
[Duke Ellington] Recorded: 1993
[Thelonious Monk] Recorded: 1964 more>>
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