As a musical genre, jazz was already taking place in the history ofworld music. Considered the first jazz music that makes headaches,(very) difficult to understand, and boring. But now, with a variety of jazzgenres in a very much different from when it first appeared, jazz has been able to enchant millions of fans around the world. Even youngchildren-no matter that many are fond of jazz.
From the literature (as well as Internet sites), which contains about jazz, we can see the various streams in jazz, since it first appeared in New Orleans to its development today. Probably less informative in this paper discusses the jazz but at least it can give you an idea as to what jazz is.
That there are different schools of jazz, among others:
Ragtime:
Origins of jazz. African music resembles the music with a beat and tone that resembles the native African music. Vibrant, enthusiastic, and extemporaneous are characteristics that can be recognized
Classic Jazz:
Often called the "New Orleans Style". Originally a brass band featured on the show and dance parties at the end of the 1800's and early 1900's. Musical instrument equipped with a clarinet, saxophone, cornet, trombone, banjo, bass, guitar, drums and piano.Improvisation is emphasized in his playing and musical arrangements can be different from every performance.
Hot Jazz:
Jazz singer of this type is characterized by an improvised solo, the typical structure of the melody, and usually have an emotional climax, and "hot". Rhytm sectionnya usually accompanied by guitar, bass, banjo, and drums that slowly increased so that reaches climax (crescendo). The main character of this genre, none other than Louis Armstrong.
Chicago Style:
Chicago became the center of the birth of this flow is the main core is the "inventive player". Characterized by innovative and harmonious arrangement, and a high technical players. The main characters, among others, Benny Goodman, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, and Gene Krupa.
Swing:
In the 1930's to early swing. Its main characteristics: robust and Invigorating. Swing is also referred to dance music. Although collectively play, a swing band to demonstrate the performance of its main melodic solo to improvise. Characters a lot, but that is often dubbed as The King of Swing Benny Goodman is.
Kansas Style:
This flow was born during the Great Depression sometime in the 1920s and 1930s in the city of Kansas, USA. Its characteristics are very soulful style and blues. Characters such as Charlie Parker.
Gypsy Jazz:
Originally introduced by the French guitarist, Django Reinhardt. Often influenced by folk music (folk music) from eastern europe. Often also known as Jazz Manouche. Its main characteristics are: languid, seductive feel, which is characterized by "quirky cadences" and "driving rhytms".
Bebop:
Developed in the early 1940's. Still rely on improvisation, the free bop soloist explores a chord for chord structure still in there. Bebop is different from the swing, and especially dance music. Bebop is also the basis for the innovations of jazz music. Player among others: Charlie Parker (saxophon) and Dizzi Gillespie (trumpet).
Mainstream:
Born again of the flow of jazz music that is not too binding in the late 1970's and early 1980's. This stream is often called the Modern Mainstream or Post Bop, and affect the flow of other music like Cool Jazz, Classic, and Hardbop. Mainstream is also often classified as a stream of jazz that is not too related to the historical flow of jazz music.
Vocalese:
Often referred to jazz vocals. Combines the lyric and music in an instrumental solo. In nature is a bop, but the priority is singing solo accompanied by a small band or ensemble. Player are: Eddie Jefferson and Jon Hendricks.
Cool:
Often said to be "mixed" bebop and swing jazz. This stream is formed of the late 1940s and was a "child of" bebop swing in a tone that combines a harmonic and dynamic. Also dubbed the "West Coast Jazz" because a lot of innovation coming from the west coast of USA, particularly the city of Los Angeles.
Hard Bop:
One of the other streams of jazz, which is a subsidiary of the flow of bebop. Hardbop more nuanced melodies on "soulful" than bebop, and sometimes influenced the themes of music Rhytm & Blues and Gospel music. One is the pianist Horace Silver inovatornya.
Bossa Nova:
A mixture of West Coast Cool, European Classical Harmonies, and Brazilian Samba rhythm. Often referred to as the Jazz Brasillian, and developed in America around 1962. Joao Gilberto player, among others, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and in America is Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz.
Free Jazz:
Sometimes called the "Avante Garde". Solis of experimenting with free jazz free (free) to the music. Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane is an example.
Soul Jazz:
Derived from Hardbop is quite famous in the early 1960s.Improvising with the chord progression, same as bop. Characters such as Horace Silver with his piano Hammond.
Groove:
Often called the "of-shoot of Soul Jazz". Groove frequent use of tone-tone blues music with a focus primarily on rhytms. This music is nuanced and often touches the emotions excited listeners to dance, while the slower blues. Solo improvisation is rarely used and rely more on collective music.
Fusion:
This flow is a mixture between "jazz improvisation" with energy and rhythm of rock music. However, sometimes mixing is often considered a part of rock music rather than jazz. This flow is also a sort of "rebellion" jazz musicians, especially the flow hardbop to "jazz purists", who seemed to ordain that jazz should be as the existing one.
Afro-Cuban Jazz:
Often referred to as Latin Jazz. A combination of improvisational jazz and Latin music rhythm. Musical instruments used musical instrument similar to jazz in general, but more focused on the rhythm section of the instrument conga, timbale, bongo and other latin instruments. Characters such as Arturo Sandoval, Poncho Sanchez, Chucho Valdes and.
Acid Jazz:
Acid Jazz is often said to be not the jazz music genre, because of weak attachment to the history of jazz music. First it was the British dance music. Which is then combined with classical music jazz, Funk 70's, Hip-Hop, Soul and Latin music, where the focus is instrumental music and not lyrics. Eventually produces a rich musical improvisation with music that sounded "mixed up", and is often called Acid Jazz. Acid Jazz is Jazz.
European Jazz:
In the late 20th century, the French jazz musicians and the Scandinavian countries feel that the American expression of jazz music has lost the "feel" it in today. That was the beginning they created a new style that is European Jazz. As with Acid Jazz, european jazz rooted in dance music, and combine with elements of house music (disco music with basic Funk). Who produced more nuanced sound digitaly and electronicaly and contemporary feel.Characters such as Bugge Wesseltoft, Nils Petter Molvaer, and Martial Solal.
It was just a glimpse into the streams in jazz music taken from the literature of jazz music. Many important figures in jazz music that is not in the summary above. Now it has a lot of new jazz musicians and vocalists, such as Jammie Cullum, Renee Olstead, and others, which makes the constraints in the flow of jazz music has begun to blur. Nevertheless, the point is not the flow itself, but the Jazz is now global.
