Sub Style Of Jazz

Jazz is one of the only uniquely American forms of music. Its roots date back all the way to the Atlantic slave trade. Jazz is still alive and well today. This paper will walk you through Jazz’s rich history. We’ll start with the basics of African music and its influences. Then we will take you through the decades leading to modern Jazz. In the early 19th century, the Atlantic slave trade had brought close to five hundred thousand African slaves to the United States. The slaves had brought ingrained musical traditions with them. These consisted of call-and-response patterns, single-line melodies, and a counter-metric structure. These early slaves also drew influence from the harmonic style of the church which they incorporated into their spirituals. (Early) Another topic that forged the preceding of Jazz was

Latin jazz was prominent in the sixties and seventies. Critics say Afro-Latin jazz might be a more exact term. This is because this style employs aspects from Africa. The sub styles of this explores this. (Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz) Post-bop is synthesized from earlier forms of bop. This term is taken to describe jazz from the mid-sixties and longer that takes influence from the other styles, however it is not easily identifiable as being any one of the other styles. Many of the artists that worked with this style also worked in other genres. Most of the records of this style were recorded by the label Blue Note Records. Some of the key albums were The Real McCoy by McCoy Tyner, Speak No Evil by Shorter, and Miles Smiles by Davis. (A Passion for Jazz!) Soul Jazz was derived from hard bop. It integrated influences from gospel, blues, and rhythm and blues. It was made for music in small groups. Soul Jazz had repetitive grooves, non-complex improvisation, and melodic hooks. A large influence of this style was Horace Silver, who had funky and gospel included piano vamps. (A Passion for