Jazz Music

Jazz - a genre of music, which was formed in the first half of the twentieth century in the southern United States in New Orleans as a combination of West African music and Euro-American. It is a combination of popular music, art and entertainment.

Synkopowanym rhythms of jazz is characterized by a substantial amount of discretionary interpretation and design and a tendency to improvise. This was associated with the fact that the first creators of this species in general are not familiar with the nut descendants of slaves.

According to some jazz musician is a form of interpretation, rather than the style of music.

James Lincoln Collier identifies three key attributes of jazz: swing role and the individual code.

Swing to Collier in terms of coming from the practice of black jazz musicians of the essence of rhythm, which consists of a special lightness and elasticity of rhythm. The technical aspect is the unequal distribution of touch, not to write the music units of pace, the occasional use of vibrato, a diverse line of melody accents melody and frequent changes in the dynamics, the effect of a "discourse" instruments .

Jazz feature stems from the religious character of the West ceremonial dances, and notes of jazz, particularly during the call. jam sessions, concerts improvised. Mutual inspiration and improvisation of musicians leads to the active participation of students, as evidenced aplauzie, okrzykach, etc oklaskach

The code that identifies the performer individual jazz form of communication between him and the listener, shown in the creation of a melody, vibrato, the severity and intensity of the sound changes, the disappearance of sound, etc.