Jazz History and Styles

This essay explores the rich history of jazz music, starting with its origins in New Orleans and the unique cultural factors that contributed to its birth. It delves into the characteristics of New Orleans jazz, highlighting its communal nature and diverse influences. The essay then transitions to the contributions of Benny Goodman, a key figure in swing music, and his role in integrating jazz groups. Finally, it examines the contrasting styles of Bebop and Cool jazz, discussing their distinct features and impact on the evolution of jazz. The essay also touches upon the social and cultural impact of jazz, including its role in challenging racial barriers and its enduring legacy as a significant American art form.

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Assignment 1: Jazz Heritage
Factors that made New Orleans ripe for the birth of jazz.
New Orleans show the spiritual Musicalization of the life; it brought everything from life to
music, the combination of life, dissimilar People. The French, blacks in the city, wealthy people
and the local white people wanted to mix their music style together. A polyphenol obverse line,
which means three front line instrument of clarinet, trombone and cornet (or trumpet) all play
concurrently lacing their separate improvisation about the music of their obverse line colleagues.
Due to its unique climatic culture, its gives social forces for the creation of jazz music. The city
port was a place where people come and have a party, fun on the river. New Orleans is a quite
understatement to describe the climate in New Orleans is not same you find boiling in the
morning and rain and cold in the afternoon. The only thing is predicted is that it is damn hot in
July and August and always humid (Goto et al., 2002).
The New Orleans is the only environment which raises and permitted the right elements to come
together within the beginning of few years of 20th century. In the city, all the element of musical
and cultural parts came together in history to make the arrival of jazz almost unavoidable.
New Orleans considered the 'party town.'
New Orleans is making the industry of its last 200 years, servicing many a cashed up and
isolated sailor who wash away into port at the joining of jazz and blues. Party looks to secretion
out of building everything. The reputation of the party is very strong that every routine act like
it’s a party just because it is in the New Orleans. Eating disordered pizza, safe dancing to top 40

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hits of the last three decades, or drinking till you cannot do anything else. Welcome to Bourbon
Street (Clark, 2015).
Where does it all start in New Orleans
• At the end of the century, the street is being hit by a new form of music. New Orleans
Jazz. Dissimilar the sadness, New Orleans Jazz is the first music to be multicultural.
• New Orleans Jazz is also called as Old-style Jazz or Dixieland.
• The individual who demanded to create jazz name Jelly Roll Morton, but then again in
detail he is the first one to note it down.
• Jazz bring a sense of communal and give life to New Orleans City, which started around
the year 1895 probably.
• The variety of cultural groups New Orleans had, it brings music from all around the
world in a city (Stark et al., 2015).
• New Orleans Jazz is listened by everywhere, and Jazz brought a sense of community and
life to the city of New Orleans, starting around 1895. (Probably earlier)
• The diversity of ethnic groups New Orleans had, brought music from all over the world
in one city.
• New Orleans Jazz was heard anywhere and everywhere – funerals, picnics, sporting,
parades, and events.

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The 'tradition' of New Orleans
New Orleans is the home for many numerous annual celebrations including New Year’s
celebration, Mardi Gras, and the New Orleans jazz and heritage festivals and the most important
season is Carnival seasons.
The people and the culture have made New Orleans, unique among and the distinct from cities in
the United States, also including others cities. The New Orleans is separately from the world, in
several ways its own little town state, it’s a part of the United States, then at the same time so
dissimilar from the other places in that nation.
The language of New Orleans is American English with the significant difference, and it is the
dominant language in the New Orleans. The background of the city is from French colonial.
French is rarely used.
It is always an important center for the music with entangled Latin America, European and
African-American culture. This is well served by the radio and television
The city also hosts the college football games. The city holds the bayou classic, which is a game
which is a game which is played annually in colleges between universities (Benedek et al.,
2014).

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Assignment 2: Hard Bop, Funky, Gospel Jazz
Benny Goodman’s contributions to jazz history.
Goodman`s grown up in a very poor family in Chicago, but he works hard to get the musical life.
He molds his playing for both black (Jimmie Noone) and white (Leon Rappolo) in the year 1920
he played with Ben Pollack’s band as a good leaning player to jazz.
Goodman wants that he lead a band which linked jazz and commercial world of music. Mildred
Bailey proposed he recruit some black arrangers, many of them remained out of work due to the
Depression
Benny Goodman’s was a swing musician, American jazz, bandleader, and clarinetist are known
as the king of the swing. He also led one of the best musicals groups in the United States. He
launched his bands of many major jazz artists. He runs on of the first integrated well-known jazz
groups. He performed approximately to the end of his life while showing his attention in the
classical music.
Goodman`s shift to the Los Angeles to join Ben Pollack's band. He lives there with the band for
many years, finally become one of the best leading soloists. In the year 1928, he launched his
first album called, "A Jazz Holiday" and then he leaves the band and shifts to New York City
(Rafer et al., 2014).
He was seen as someone who takes black music and uses it in a such a way that white people
dance to this exciting sound and liberating
Jazz is a most powerful antidote to racism in America. A demo, A self-ruled force, the African-
American art system has transported for both blacks and whites. Entrenched in liberty and

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impulsiveness, it was taking blacks and whites both one for co-operating and mix times before
court rulings and the civil rights undertaking made steps near fairness.
The Goodman`s go on the road trip with his group, which at the same time added trumpeters
Harry James and Ziggy Elman, pianists Teddy Wilson and Jess Stacey, and drummer Gene
Krupa among others he continue to accelerate with 15 top 10 hits in 1936, including you turned
the table on me And goody goody.
By making history again, Goodman's group was first to perform jazz in the New York City in
1938. His one of the best trademark songs, sing, sing, sing (with the swing), that similar year
which was later inaugurated into the Grammy hall of fame. As the band leader, he is known as
the demanding boss who required technical perfection for the performance. Many of his
members left his group to start their own groups.
Some of the musicians that Goodman helped launch careers in jazz
The main purpose for Goodman's achievement over the following years was the brilliant
musicians with whom he enclosed himself. White musicians like the drummer Gene Krupa and
the trumpeter Harry James, the African American musicians like pianist Teddy Wilson and
vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, and the first skillful of the electronic guitar, Charlie Christian, all
helped the Goodman to uphold his place in the national spotlight. In 1936 the band won the
Down Beat magazine reader's poll for best band by a victory and could satisfy jitterbugs though
at the same time make jazz accept (Larsen et al., 2013).

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Assignment 3: Hard Bop, Funky, gospel jazz.
The adjacent style periods in jazz of Bebop and Cool
 Cool Jazz was at the lead of jazz and pass on over its best-concerted Development and
growth since 1949 – 1955.
 Bebop was “hot,” which means it is loud, loose and exciting, cool jazz is “cool,” which
means it is soft, controlled and more reserved.
 While bebop bands stayed classically a quartet or quintet and were included of saxophone
or trumpet and beat section, cool jazz groups had a wider variety of size and arrangement.
 Cool Jazz is a blend of classical and jazz.
 Cool jazz frequently comprised counterpoint, which is, more than two melodious lines
going on at the similar time, counterpoint is a mutual musical device used by the classical
music composers. This was dissimilar from bebop which had its emphasis on one
melodious line at one time (Burkholder et al., 2014)
 No liking bebop, much of cool jazz was decided in advance of time, in bebop, the stress
was on the unprepared solos, in cool jazz both the preparation and the corrected solos
were important.
 The very first and important coo jazz artist was trumpeter Miles Davis, the first album for
cool jazz was his birth of the cool
 Cool jazz bring jazz music back to mainstream, which means it is again popularized jazz
 Bebop is associated with new York (east coast), cool jazz was associated with the
California (west coast)

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 Bebop is the style of jazz. And it is emerged in the forties as an artist with a lot of the
musical knowledge and skill in progress to make Jazz extra difficult and contain a
component of improvisation. Bebop is very hard and complex and difficult in hearing.
 And jazz works well in the background music in the cafes; Bebop is a kind of music
which need full attention.
Impact of jazz
 Think about the history of jazz; it might be surprising that to learn about that how
America classical music not always accepted by everyone. Jazz created an argument
when it was innate because it is that which never be done earlier. All music teachers
concerned that this new style of the music will destroy classical music and disturb the
mind of the children mind while watching a black man play an instrument as well as
singing well.
 Jazz was a disobedient and delivering style form to several; it meant to walk out of the
box and to view individualism. In cities singing jazz was well thought-out to be a
wickedness, and it might be only played in the red light region of cities, less needed areas
of the town.
 The anti-movement contrary to jazz gone so far that it is referred as a devils music to
some people and it is banned to be played in the dance rooms. It was ridiculous for the
white communal to allow a black man control an art form such as jazz, but jazz was not
stopped.
 At the chance of the period, America was surprised by hearing the energetic, powerful,
sugary sounds coming as of bands similar the Hot Five. After the argument in the
twenties, the jazz was fairly seeming that jazz will not going somewhere.

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 This new music is getting attention, produced relationships between the separated
countries. best performers are arisen from jazz, always altering the appearance of music
and brings the new standard for music.
 Jazz music is a home-based art form in the United States, it is a part of our country form
New Year’s no matter what way we chose (Shuker, 2016).
Music is all about.
The style Bebop or bop is jazz style which is developed in the1940s early-mid in the United
States, which gives features to the songs considered by a complex chord, fast tempo
developments with quick chord variations and many changes of key, instrumental skill, and
correction based on a mixture of harmonic structure, its use
The music should be in an improvised way which gives the listener a sense of melodious sound,
harmonic and motivate the listener to listen to the song again and again. And when all instrument
are placed together it gives a smooth rhythm which makes the listener feel relax.
“Music is the soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination,
and life to everything.”

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