Analysis Of Jazz The Sound Of The Heart

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Jazz the Sound of the Heart
In a blog written by Virginia Hughes she states that “Music moves people of all cultures, Vocal Jazz and collaborations with other sub-genres such as bebop jazz, cool jazz and hard bob didn’t only affected the culture throughout the eras, but created an outlet for many artists to express their repressed feelings during difficult time periods, and allowed a strong rooted foundation for Jazz in whole to continue to develop. “Vocal Jazz” has been able to touch the deepest human emotions through the voice of the songs and powerful melodies behind them.in a way that doesn’t seem to happen with other animals. Nobody really understands why listening to music — which, unlike sex or food, has no intrinsic value — can trigger …show more content…

Merriam Webster dictionary defines Jazz as “a type of American music with lively rhythms and melodies that are often made up by musicians as they play (Webster, 2015). Music is extremely powerful and has the ability to change people’s feelings; in fact, music therapy has recently become a popular method of helping people deal with problems such as stress, anxiety, and pain (Music Therapy Makes a Difference, 2004). Vocal Jazz is rhythmic poetry tied with powerful instruments and the lyrics behind it, all are a key component of what makes it a powerful …show more content…

One has to ask how Jazz and more specifically Vocal Jazz got its foundation from. Blues was a major component in Vocal Jazz, it comes from the pain, suffering and agony of African Americans along with other emotions. Vocal Jazz continued along to help express agony, but added more elevating keys and melodies to be able to give it a more diverse sound. During the 1900’s the city of New Orleans was seen as a Melting Pot for music, from blues, to church gospel, to marching bands gave life to Jazz. From then on Jazz has been able inspire many artists to connect with the emotions within all of us. Louis Armstrong aka Satchmo, aka Pops, the singer without a voice is what most referred to him as and some went as far as even naming him the greatest. Billy Exstine, an American singer during the swing era, went as far as to say “that Louie Armstrong was the greatest singer in the world without a voice. And he was because what Louie did to a song, nobody else could do.” He single handedly created “scat” when Armstrong sang horn-like nonsense syllables during a recording of “Heebie Jeebies." According to Satchmo he dropped the lyric sheet, being a true professional he improvised the sounds of the horns (NPR Louis Armstrong: 'The Singer ') Louis Armstrong was able to

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