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Brief history of the jazz
The commerce of slaves of Africa from century XVII was intense in the colonization of the newone
 
continent, by Center America, Brazil, the tropical south and North America. They if they didnot come
 
evangelizados they finished being it in new territories of work. The religion takes a strong one
 
inspiration in the new sort that but ahead will transform American music.
 
Its main place of work, the territories of culture to the south of the United States, wasdeveloped there
 
worksongswith its African choral responds and more ahead songs with letters
 
nuns, gospels.
 
Although it is certain that the behavior of the African slave was similar in all the places
 
where it worked in the different countries, here to the south of the United States, they wentgiving
 
special elements to arrive at the creation of the jazz music.
 
Let us consider some:
 
The prevailing religion of the Settlers
ones was the protestant; luterana, Anglican,
 
calvinist, Methodist, baptist, and others, whose characteristics in addition to the intenseBiblical reading,
 
it was the song and it dances of psalms with great participation of the assistants.
Thecatholic church
 
prevailing in
the South part of the continent
it did not have these characteristics.
The End of the war of Secession 1865
, the slaves are left and many free with
 
instruments of the bands military.
 
Spirituals, religious hymns that the slaves were transforming his little by little
 
choral interpretation, emphasizing vocal individual improvisations.
The Gospels
, religious songs in its beginnings, now with subjects of the social contingency,
 
the slavery and all the suffering that entails to it, give origin to one of the musical forms
 
more solid and important of the jazz music,
the blues
.
The tradition of the bands
, specially in the state of Lousiana, these
 
they used for the funerales interpreting hymns with instrumental improvisations
 
preferredly of winds.
The RagTime
, from 1895 -1910 it appears east pianÃstico style executed by the musicians of
 
better social position, Scot Joplin, pianista and in the beginning accompanying composer ofoperate,
 
it excelled next to Jelly Roll Morton in this period. Its performances with single piano in
 
halls you, coffees, and great stores, made them popular. Its compositions already printed in
 
scores or rolls of the autopianosthey were commercialized successfully.
The creation of Storyville
, located in New Orleans, capital of state of
 
Lousiana, important by the amount of musicians who found a work place there
 
stable, those occasional bands of funerales and celebrations were dedicated professionally to
 
improvisation music. There for some the jazz was created a place not very saint like “thetango”
 
in South America. Storyville it was closed in 1917 emigrating its musicians towards the north,Chicago and
 
New York, towards followed the famous trompetista there Louis Armstrong.
The Original Dixieland jass band
, the 30 of January of 1917 east group of white musicians
 
it recorded touching in the style of the black musicians,Darktown to stratter> s ballandIndianafor the seal
 
 
Columbia, pays attention to the word jass written without z , this recording marks animportant landmark in
 
the music of the sort and gives a name him to style,
Dixie
or
Dixieland
.
 
Since then the jazz has evolved to more and more complex forms, creating styles
 
individuals modified by the historical events of the time from beginning of
 
century.
1920
, the Twenties a difficult period during the dry law where the musicians
 
they finded work and refuge in the halls the alcohol dealers. This year
Mamie
 
Smith
it recorded the first bluesCrazy blues.
 
In 1923, the orchestras of the trompetista
King Oliver
and the pianista
Jelly Roll Morton
 
they begin to record discs with the name of jazz. A style known like New Orleans or
 
Chicago to that it would be added
Louis Armstrong
.This same year end the law of prohibition to the alcohol and the appearance of whitemusicians
 
like
Benny Goodman
,
Glen Miller
they help to give one better image to the considered jazz
 
until then like marginal. It is the year of Swing style, the bailables orchestras and theappearance
 
of great solistas, the pianista
Art Tatum
, the pianista and singer
Fats Waller
.
 
The depression of years 1929, forced many musicians to emigrate towards the Europeancontinent
 
presenting the new music with great success, being created hot club by all sides, but
 
conoticed the quinteto
hot club of France
led by the guitarist
Django Reinhardt
and
 
the violinista
Stephane Grappelli
.
Of the previous years and during the second great war
the jazz was favored with theappearance of
 
the great bailables
orchestras
,
Big Bands
 
Glen Miller
,
Artie Shaw
,
Count Basie
,
 
Duke Ellington
names recognized in the popular hearing. Solistas Grandes like
 
saxofonista Lester Young, singers like
Billie Holiday
,
Ella Fitzgerald
,
Sarah
 
Vaugham
.
 
The modernist movements are occurred parallelly, thus is like the style
BeBop
it is born
 
in the previous years at the end of World War II. Its creation is assigned to him to
 
talented musicians of Harlem,
Charlie Parker
,
Charlie Christian
,
Dizzy Guillespie
,
 
shortly after they follow to him
Thelonious Monk
,
Charles Mingus
. This style arrives upperat his
 
level with the saxofonista
John Coltrane.The appearance of Cool jazz by years 50
in the coast the west it is characterized by itsadjustments
 
with smooth accents but in the melodic and harmonic treatment, a clear influence of
 
classic music,
The Modern jazz Quarter
,
Chet Baker
,
Gil Evans
,
Miles Davis
.
 
With the arrival of
Free Jazz
the years ‘60 with
Ornette Coleman
music explores towards
 
contemporary, the exhibition of the subject in unison and the freedom of collectiveimprovisation
 
it makes different from the well-known styles.
Cecil Taylor
in piano it makes of free jazz one
 
approach to contemporary classic music.
The modal jazz
which it uses the Renaissance ways of the Greek scales, it had great
 
acceptance by the public, was led by the trumpeter and composer
Miles Davis
.
 
The Rock Jazz, Bossa Nova, Flamenco jazz, Acid Jazz, she is one looks for it constant of
 
to find new expressions of the jazz music, to this style we denominated it Fusion.
What musical Formation had the black slaves when they arrived to the AmericanContinent?
 Only we can speculate on the antecedents that contribute to us ethnomusicology of
 
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hugohar1

Hi Jharnum, thanks for your honest comment, really I translated it with a bad program, I had no time, this site was a hard work; but I hope to do it myself soon, hugohar1

reply09 / 10 / 2009
jharnum

Aha! Yeah, I've used translation programs, too, and they never do a very accurate job. Sometimes the results are quite funny. Thanks for clearing that up. Cheers!

09 / 11 / 2009
hugohar1

Hi Jharnum, thanks for your honest comment, really I translated it with a bad program,I have no time to do it myself; I made this site and was a hard work,I'll work to translate it soon, I hope it be better, hugohar1

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jharnum

HI Hugo: This is all accurate information, but it's difficult to follow your English (no offense intended :). This would be a great resource in your native language. Have you written this out in your own tongue and posted it?

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