JAZZ MUSIC

JAZZ MUSIC
Jazz Music is an American music
developed especially from ragtime and blues
which originated in the African American
country. The development of the jazz genre
was an offshoot of the music of an African
slaves who where brought to America.
 As an outlet for their deepest
feelings the Africans used music to recall
their nostalgic past in their home country
as well as to voice out their sentiments
on their desperate condition as slaves in
America.
CHARACTERISTICS:

- Syncopated rhythms
- Polyphonic
- Improvisation
- Distortion of pitch and timbre
FORMS OF JAZZ MUSIC
 RAGTIME
Ragtime is an American popular musical
style mainly for piano, that originated in the Afro-
American communities of St. Louis and style mainly
for piano to be a modification of the "marching
mode" made popular by fod Neilsons. Its music is
written unlike jazz which is danly tarbythen the
contains regular meters and clear phrases, with an
alternation of low bass or bass octaves and chords.
 Foremost exponents of ragtime were Jelly Roll
Morton, an American early jazz pianist who composed
Frog-I-More Rag, and Scott Joplin, who composed the
popular Maple Leaf Rag, Solace, and The Entertainer.

Joplin is also known as the "King of Ragtime." Ragtime

influenced a number of classical composers as well, among
them Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, and Igor Stravinsky, who
injected ragtime rhythmic elements in their compositions.
Jelly Roll Scoot Joplin
 BEBOP JAZZ ROCK
Jazz rock is the music of 1960s and 1970s hands that inserted jazz elements into skythais A synonyms the presic of 1960s
and where the music used amplification and electronic effects. complex time signatures, and extended instrumental
Bebop or bop is a musical style of modern
compositions with lengthy improvisations in the jazz style. inserted ja taim and blues")
Popular singer/songwriters Joni Mitchell, Tim Buckley, and Van Morrison were among those who adopted the jazz rock
jazz that emerged during World War II. It was style.
Joni Mitchell

characterized by a fast tempo, instrumental

Some popular groups that emerged using the above music styles were the following:
Grateful Dead

virtuosity, and improvisation. The speed of the

Cream
Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Santana
harmony, melody, and rhythm resulted in a Traffic
Chicago
heavy performance where the instrumental Steely Dan
Lighthouse
sound became more intense and free. Frank Zappa
Soft Machine
Hatfield and the North
 Bebop's main exponents were
trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, alto sax player
Charlie Parker, drummers Max Roach and Roy
Haynes, pianists Bud Powell and Thelonius
Monk, guitarist Charlie Christian tenor sax
players Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins,
who was also a composer and trombonist JJ
Johnson.
Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker
 BIGBAND
The term "Big Band" refers to a large ensemble
form originating in the United States in the mid-1920s
closely associated with the Swing Era and its jazz
elements. This style relied heavily on percussion
(drums), wind, rhythm (guitar, piano, double bass,
vibes), and brass instruments (particularly saxophones),
with a lyrical string section (violins and other string
instruments) to accompany a lyrical melody.
 Among the great
Big Bands were the
Glenn Miller Orchestra
(A String of Pearls,
Moonlight Serenade, In
The Mood, American
Patrol, and Smoke Gets
in Your Eyes)
Gleen Miller Orchestra
 JAZZ ROCK
Jazz rock is the music of 1960s and 1970s
hands that inserted jazz elements into skythais
A synonyms the presic of 1960s and where the
music used amplification and electronic
effects. complex time signatures, and extended
instrumental compositions with lengthy
improvisations in the jazz style.
Van Morrison Tim Buckley
Some popular groups that emerged using the above music styles
were the following:
 Grateful Dead
 Cream
 Blood, Sweat, and Tears
 Santana
 Traffic
 Chicago
 Steely Dan
 Lighthouse
 Frank Zappa
 Soft Machine
 Hatfield and the North
 MEMBERS:

- CHRISLYN ROSANES
- KATE KISSES AMADOR
- JULIE ANN HANTAL
- PHENA DOLENDO
- MARVIN GOMEZ
THANKS FOR ATTENTION!