Jazz music has the kind of power to touch ones soul; its deep and powerful yet soothing and relaxing.
The Origin of Jazz Music
The roots of jazz music lay in the combination of American African tradition. The origin of jazz music is from the African American communities near the beginning of 20th century; gaining its international popularity around 1920s. Jazz music has many different styles; even today it never stopped evolving bringing along a different angle to its impressive notes. However, the soul of jazz music is blues.
The word jazz is said to originate from American slang and is supposed to have been jass and that was a rude sexual slang related to the jasmine perfume worn by the urban prostitutes. Today if you look up jazz as a word in the dictionary it will translate to animation; nonsense; enthusiasm and miscellaneous.
The origin of jazz music is from simple musicians who taught themselves how to play music. Jazz music is said to have started with the black slaves in the cotton fields and continued after work in the bars to entertain themselves. They were mostly sad songs of grief and pain; even today jazz music inspires passion and pain.
New Orleans and the Origin of Jazz Music
New Orleans, Louisiana was the first city to commonly name jass music jazz; the city had a long history of being the regional music center with many people from different nations such as Africa, Europe and Latin America who contributed to New Orleans rich musical heritage.
The known New Orleans musicians say that one of the main reasons in the development of jazz is due to the well known trumpeter, Buddy Bolden and the members of his band. It is said that he was the first to take jazz to the blues styles that we are used to today. In the early 20th century anyone visiting New Orleans remarked the distinguished band and the jazz notes not heard anywhere else. It soon caught on nationwide and thereafter internationally.
The Love of Jazz Music
The origin of jazz music is inevitability within everyones heart as we hear it for the first time; we all find our style of jazz music that we enjoy and turn to when happy or sad.
One cannot help but fall in love with this soothing music that feeds the soul.
