With the 1920s came a new era of music: jazz. What were the influences behind this new musical genre and how has it influenced modern musicians of today?

JAZZ MUSIC ERA

Outline

1 . Introduction

2 . Rise of jazz music in America

2 .1 . Jazz roots

2 .2 . Instruments and the first jazz bands

2 .3 . The role of improvisation in jazz and some jazz terms

3 . History of jazz music

3 .1 . Jazz in 1920s

3 .2 . Development of swing and other substyles of jazz in 1930s

3 .3 Transition to the music trends of 1940s

3 .4 . Origins of modern jazz

3 .5 Latin Jazz and jazz fusion during 1960s

3 .6 . The key

jazz styles of 1980s

3 .7 . Modern jazz tendencies

4 . Conclusion

In this we are going to study the development of jazz music , its history and famous performers , its subdivisions and its influence many years ago as well as nowadays . The word jazz ' can be used as a noun and as a verb and is related to certain music genre or playing music When the term appeared it was not very popular among musicians as in vulgar language it meant sexual intercourse . However both the term and the music took their stand in the cultures in many countries in the world . Jazz is said to be the greatest contribution of America to the development of music in the whole world (Hennessey , 1994 . There is a great number of substyles in jazz music due to the fact that basis for this music genre was improvisation and individual approach . Such famous names as Louis Armstrong , Benny Goodman , Ella Fitzgerald , Duke Ellington , Count Basie , and Glenn Miller are known all over the world and are connected with jazz music

Jazz music blends the traditions of West African ragtime and blues with Western music , imparting a flavour of religious hymns and hillbilly music from England with music of military bands of Europe . Jazz appeared in the early twenty century and then rapidly expanded by the 1920s Nobody could establish any assertions about jazz origins . The origin of the word , as suggested above , is the American slang , but this is also only guesswork . Jazz was very closely related to blues music , which used to be the form of folk music of the slaves that were brought from Africa to the USA . Wynton Marsalis , jazz musician said that "Jazz is something Negroes invented .the nobility of the race put into sound . jazz has all the elements , from the spare and penetrating to the complex and enveloping (Erlewine , 1998

As jazz music absorbed some features of band music , the band instruments became the basic ones for jazz these are : reeds , drums and brass . At the beginning nobody was either teaching or learning jazz , mostly black musicians formed their small bands and were perfecting their skills during funerals in New Orleans . The bands were also traveling in the southern part of the country and to some cities in the north . Only after the war , when schools for black people were opened , there appeared a chance for musicians to gain some education as well . One of the first well-known blacks , who...