Jazz is a musical genre that emerged in the late 19th century in the United States and immediately spread throughout the world throughout the 20th century. Among his salient features is his improvisation and the very marked rhythm that he presents. This musical trend, especially identified with the black race, has had a constant assimilation of other musical trends, even the strangest, and has also mixed with other genres generating other very popular musical currents such as rock and roll and that later evolved from independently to jazz.
In the first years of its appearance its denomination varied between the following; Jaz, jas, jasz and jascz, while with respect to the origin of the term there are also no certainties, since some indicate that it comes from Africa, others from the Arab world and others say that it belongs to vaudeville. The term has even been linked to sex in American slang.
The first jazz record was recorded in 1917 in New York by the original Dixeland band, considered the pioneering lineup when it came to spreading jazz on a massive scale.
Thus, the fundamental characteristic of this type of genre is the interpretation of the performances without reading the score, that is, improvisation is the basis and reason for being of jazz. In jazz, improvisation supposes that the performer in question freely recreates the subject in each performance based on a certain harmonious structure, that is, in jazz the music falls more on who performs than on who composes. Meanwhile, it has been this question of improvisation that, on the one hand, has substantially differentiated jazz from other musical styles, such as classical music, and also what has led to a move away from a massive commercial presence.
Traditionally, jazz is performed through musical formations in which a single instrument stands out accompanied by a rhythmic section and some harmonic instrument. The same can be variable, that is, of soloists without any accompaniment, through trios, quartets and the so-called Big Bands.
Some of its most outstanding artists have been: Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Buddy Bolden, King Oliver.
