Live Latin Jazz at Minton's Playhouse -Harlem, NY
Sunday, June 28, 2009
The Definition of Jazz
Define Jazz - What is Jazz music?
"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know" - Louis Armstrong
Jazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style's West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note.
From its early development until the present, jazz has also incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music.[2] The word jazz began as a West Coast slang term of uncertain derivation and was first used to refer to music in Chicago in about 1915; for the origin and history, see Jazz (word).
Jazz has, from its early 20th century inception, spawned a variety of subgenres, from New Orleans Dixieland dating from the early 1910s, big band-style swing from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s, a variety of Latin jazz fusions such as Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz from the 1950s and 1960s, jazz-rock fusion from the 1970s and late 1980s developments such as acid jazz, which blended jazz influences into funk and hip-hop. As the music has spread around the world it has drawn on local national and regional musical cultures, its aesthetics being adapted to its varied environments and giving rise to many distinctive styles.
"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know" - Louis Armstrong
Jazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style's West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note.
From its early development until the present, jazz has also incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music.[2] The word jazz began as a West Coast slang term of uncertain derivation and was first used to refer to music in Chicago in about 1915; for the origin and history, see Jazz (word).
Jazz has, from its early 20th century inception, spawned a variety of subgenres, from New Orleans Dixieland dating from the early 1910s, big band-style swing from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s, a variety of Latin jazz fusions such as Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz from the 1950s and 1960s, jazz-rock fusion from the 1970s and late 1980s developments such as acid jazz, which blended jazz influences into funk and hip-hop. As the music has spread around the world it has drawn on local national and regional musical cultures, its aesthetics being adapted to its varied environments and giving rise to many distinctive styles.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
EDQ1
EDQ 1 is a contemporary jazz quartet whose music influences covers the spectrum from Donny Hathaway and Herbie Hancock to Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. The soulful keyboard of Joel Bryant is a perfect complement to the sizzling jazz guitar of George Overton. Both are alumni of the Stylistics touring band. Joel is currently musical director for Grammy-winning gospel icon Tramaine Hawkins. In the rhythm section Lee Patterson on electric bass and Ed Dennis on drums takes care of business "on the bottom". It's a performance that will have you snapping your fingers and moving your feet to the positive music. Yes indeedee! *
*Thanks to the late Harrison Ridley Jr. of WRTI, Temple University's program 'The Historical Approach to the Positive Music'.
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