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Jazz is a style of music that appeared in the early twentieth century in the southern states of the United States, originating in the songs of the black population, the descendant of slaves of African descent. Jazz music recognizes especially tones of blues and ragtime, to which are added elements of European music. Later, rhythms of Latin American music were taken over. Jazz is considered the first and, so far, the only form of artistic manifestation in the history of culture that has developed in the New World.
Although relatively recent, the origin and initial meaning of the word "jazz" (initially pronounced jass) is controversial. One hypothesis would be the phonetic kinship with the expression "chasse-beau", a dance figure from Louisiana, once a French colony. Others believe it derives from the word Jézabel, the name of a prostitute in New Orleans, in the American spelling "Jazz-Bel". In the jargon of the local population, the words jasm or gism mean speed and energy, but they also have an erotic meaning. In 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band was very successful in the New York Columbus Circle, and the word "jazz" entered the current vocabulary, although it had already appeared in 1913 in a San Francisco newspaper without reference to music. would have had a special echo.
The tone in jazz music, unlike traditional European music, focuses primarily on expressiveness and less on the beauty of sound. The sounds of the instruments are harsh, unfiltered and eruptive, the human voice is weeping or screaming and accusing, brutally expressing the aesthetically unprocessed truth, in a characteristic phrasing. It's called "Hot-Intonation." But the tone is different for different performers: voluminous and erotic for saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, elegance for clarinetist Benny Goodmann, sad to despair for trumpeter Miles Davis, triumphant for Louis Armstrong, full of brilliance for Dizzy Gillespie.
Improvisation is perhaps the most typical element in jazz music. At the beginning it was played without notes, the performers improvised on different themes or harmonies, individually or alternatively in small formations (combos), each with its own style of improvisation, easily recognizable. The music is developed and performed by different personalities, the composition and execution merge. Improvisation is normally accompanied by the repetition of the scheme of an agreement.
Rhythm always accompanies the execution of jazz music, jazz is a "syncopated" music. The rhythm gives the music a typical swing, sometimes occupying the foreground, leaving the tone of the song and the phrasing. At first the rhythm was given by the trombone, then this role was taken over by the percussion instruments. The orchestras are divided between a "Melody Section" (trumpet, clarinet, saxophone) and a "Rhythm Section" (bass, drums, guitar, piano). But the instruments in the "melodic sector" also emit syncopated sounds. Between rhythm and melody a state of tension is created, but sometimes they merge in a continuous flow, inseparable, as in the style of "Free jazz".
Blues, belonging to African-American folklore, characterized by a constant harmonic formula and a four-beat rhythm, is an essential component of jazz music, which gives it a certain mood, both in slow and fast forms.