Jazz

Jazz is an American musical art form of popular music.Its origins are in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a wide range of African and European music traditions.It spans from Ragtime waltzes to 2000s-era fusion. e states that it is music that includes qualities such as “swinging’, improvising, group interaction, developing an ‘individual voice’, and being ‘open’ to different musical possibilities

Jazz uses a wide variety of instruments notably the saxophone and other instruments like piano,bass,drums etc.Jazz is a music that does not follow a specified pattern and there are melodies and counter melodies.Generally Jazz is either listened upon to or people dance slowly to its tunes.Thus the composition of a Jazz song is complex and it involves a good instrumental prowess and music knowledge.Jazz songs are sometimes without any singing or there is singing sometimes.

In the 1920’s and 1930’s different types of Jazz such as Swing and European Jazz were present while in the 1940’s and 1950’s different types of Jazz such as Dixie style,Bepop,Cool Jazz,Hard Bop and Free Jazz emerged.In the 1960’s and 1970’s styles of Jazz music such as Latin Jazz,Soul Jazz and Jazz fusion emerged. From the 1980’2 onwards it was fused with other music types.