Jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a very intriguing musical style. Jazz music gives the musician space to improve his/her ideas to the world by using their knowledge of swinging rhythms, scales and chords. I believe that musicians only play jazz for the love of it. Not all jazz musicians become millionaires. Listening to the radio today makes me feel sick to my stomach because I can never hear any new rock band or rap group come up with new and original songs. They either sing about their girlfriend dumping them or they sing about life in the ghetto. Pop musicians, such as the Backstreet Boys or Jessica Simpson, never have any songs that are interesting to listen too either. Jazz was the only form of music beside classical that has instruments tell a story or express human emotion. I always enjoy listening to jazz since I think of jazz as an art form in which musicians are allowed to express their original ideas and opinions to an audience who are always open to new sensations. As I was watching the documentary on the infamous Blue Note recording company, one of the jazz musicians that they interviewed made an interesting comment about the African-American jazz artists in the 1950s-1960s composing songs about their struggle for civil rights. I found that interesting because I never knew that I was listening to instrumental songs about civil rights protesting. I really wanted to do an I-Search paper on jazz, but I decided to research bebop since bebop is an extension of jazz. I wanted to find both bebop's and jazz's roots, so that I could have a better understanding of the jazz musician and his approach to playing bebop.

I found that the best web site about all the jazz styles was the Hyper Music web site since Hyper Music had a lot of informati...

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...isten to, such as cool jazz, free jazz, big band and fusion. I never knew until after I did the research that the music played by Miles Davis and many other musicians that I like to listen to, were not playing bebop, but actually were playing free jazz and cool jazz. If it was not for bebop, I would never have listened to jazz music for entertainment.

Works Cited

"Bebop". Hyper Music. 10 Oct. 2004<http://www.hypermusic.ca/jazz/bop.html>.

"The Bebop Pages Du Wop Shabam". Brent Wheeler Limited. 10 Oct. 2004<http://www.

Brentsjam.com/Jazz/jazzbebop.html>.

Duffy, Richard V. "Be-bop Is: The Music of the Future". 10 Oct. 2004<http://www.

jazzreview.com/corners90.html>.

Rudolph, Steve. Personal Interview. 14 Oct. 2004.

Sabatella, Marc. "Bebop". The Outside Shore. 10 Oct. 2004<http:// www. outsideshor.com/primer/primer/ms-primer-2-3.html>.