Jazz Post
Jazz music played a crucial role in the late 19th century, early 20th century. Jazz originated from New Orleans in the year 1895 thanks to Buddy Bolden. Bolden and his bandmates created jazz in 1895, this form of jazz was inspired by ragtime and the blues and it shared the same 2/4ths rhythm as ragtime up until the 1930s. In the 1930s, many subgenres emerged separate from New Orleans Jazz. During the Great Migration, Jazz music traveled North to places such as Chicago and New York and transformed into the subcategories of Classical, Bebop, Free, Modal, and Swing. Jazz was greatly impacted by the Harlem Renaissance and In the 1930s the 2/4th rhythm of jazz turned into the 4/4 rhythm of swing. Blues also played a large role in Jazz, in the 1920s-1945 the term used to describe the mixing of Blues style piano playing, mixed with string instruments that we associate with Jazz was “Boogie Woogie”. The term used to describe the jazz style piano playing was “Honky Tonk”. A few of the notable Jazz musicians throughout history include Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Buster Young, Jo Jones , Herbie Hancock, John Kirby, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, and Pharoah Sanders.
