Various Jazz Music Genre
Did you know that the genre of jazz still has a longer flows underneath. Here it is, the flow of jazz music
1. Ragtime
Origins of jazz music. African music resembles the music with a beat and tone that resembles the original African music. Vibrant, enthusiastic, and extemporaneous are characteristics that can be recognized from ragtime. Characters such as Scott Joplin and Ben Harney.
2. Classic Jazz
Often referred to as "New Orleans Style". Originally a brass band that featured on the show and the dance parties at the end of the 1800s and early 1900s. Musical instrument equipped with the clarinet, saxophone, cornet, trombone, banjo, bass, guitar, drums and piano. Improvisation is emphasized in his playing and musical arrangements can be different from every appearance.
3. Hot Jazz
This type is characterized by jazz soloists improvise, distinctive melodic structure, and usually have an emotional climax and "hot". Rhythm sectionnya usually accompanied by guitar, bass, banjo, and drums that rise slowly so as to achieve climax (crescendo). The main character of this genre, none other than Louis Armstrong.
4. Chicago Style
Chicago became the center of the birth of this genre which is the main core of "inventive player". Characterized by an innovative and harmonious arrangement, and techniques of high players. The main characters such as Benny Goodman, Bud Freeman, Edie Condon, and Gene Krupa.
5. Swing
1930 became first swing. Its main characteristics: robust and invigorating. Swing dance music is also often said. Although playing collectively, a swing band to demonstrate performance to improvise melodic solo headliner. Characters a lot but that is often dubbed as the King of Swing Benny Goodman was.
6. Kansas Style
This stream was born during the Great Depression around 1920's and 1930's in Kansas City, USA. Its characteristics are very soulful style and blues. Characters such as Charlie Parker.
7. Gypsy Jazz
Originally introduced by the French guitarist, Django Reinhardt. Often influenced by folk music (folk music) from eastern europe. Often also known as Jazz Manouche. Its main characteristics are: Languid, seductive feel, which is characterized by "quirky cadences" and "driving rhytms".
8. Bebop
Developed in the early 1940s. Still relying on improvisation, the free bop soloist explores a chord for chord structure still in there. Different from the bebop swing, and even more dance music. Bebop was also the basis for the innovations of jazz music. Player among others: Charlie Parker (Saxophon) and Dizzi Gillespie (trumpet).
9. Mainstream
Born again of the flow of jazz music that is not too binding in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This flow is often called Modern Mainstream or Post Bop, and influencing other musical genres such as Cool Jazz, Classic, and Hardbop. Mainstream also often classified as jazz stream that is not too related to the historical flow of jazz music.
10. Vocalese
Often referred to vocal jazz. Combines lyric and music in an instrumental solo. In nature is bop, but the main priority is singing solo or accompanied by a small musical ensemble group. Player among others: Eddie Jefferson and Jon Hendricks.
11. Cool
Often described as "mixed" bebop and swing jazz. This stream is formed of the late 1940s and is a "natural child" which combines bebop swing in the harmonic and dynamic tone. Also dubbed the "West Coast Jazz", because a lot of innovation coming from the west coast of the USA, especially the city of Los Angeles.
12. Hard Bop
One of the other streams of jazz, which is a subsidiary of bebop flow. Hardbop more nuanced melodies on "soulful" than bebop, and sometimes influenced the themes of Rhythm & Blues music and Gospel music. Inovatornya is one of pianist Horace Silver.
13. Bossa Nova
Mixture of West Coast Cool, European Classical Harmonies, and Brazilian Samba rhythm. Often referred to by the name Brasillian Jazz, and flourished in America in 1962. Player such as Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and in America is Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz.
14. Free Jazz
Sometimes also called the "Avante Garde". Solis of free jazz experiment freely (free) to the music. Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane is an example.
15. Soul Jazz
Hardbop derived from well-known in the early 1960s. Improvise with chord progression, just like bop. Characters such as Horace Silver with his piano Hammond.
16. Groove
Often called the "Soul of-shoot of Jazz". Groove frequent use of tone-tone blues music with a focus primarily on rhytms. This music is nuanced and often touching emotion excited listeners to dance, while the slower blues. Improvised solos rarely used and relied more on music collective.
17. Fusion
This flow is a mix between "jazz improvisation" with the energy and rhythm of rock music. However, sometimes mixing is often considered a part of rock music and not jazz. This flow is also a kind of "rebellion" jazz musicians, especially hardbop flow of "jazz purists", who seemed to ordain that jazz should be like that already exist.
18. Afro-Cuban Jazz
Often called by its Latin name Jazz. Is a combination of improvisational jazz and latin music rhythm. Musical instruments that are used together with jazz instruments in general, but more focused on the rhythm section of the instrument conga, timbale, bongo and other latin instruments. Characters such as Arturo Sandoval, Poncho Sanchez, and Chucho Valdes.
19. Acid Jazz
Acid Jazz is not a genre of music often say jazz, because of the weak attachment to the history of jazz music. First it was the British dance music. Are then combined with classical jazz, 70s Funk, Hip-hop, Soul and Latin music, where the focus is instrumental music and not the lyrics. Eventually produce a rich music with improvised music that sounded "mixed up", and is often referred to Acid Jazz. Acid Jazz is Jazz.
20. European Jazz
In the late 20th century, the French jazz musician and the Scandinavian countries felt that the expression of American jazz music has lost its "sense" its in today. That was the beginning of a new style that they created a European Jazz. Such as Acid Jazz, european jazz rooted in dance music, and combine with elements of house music (disco music with basic Funk). Resultant sound is more nuanced and electronicaly digitaly and feels contemporary. Characters such as Bugge Wesseltoft, Nils Petter Molvaer, and Martial Solal.
That's just a glimpse of streams in jazz music drawn from a variety of jazz literature. There are also many important figures in jazz music that is not in the summary above. Now there are a lot of new jazz musicians and vocalists, such as Jammie Cullum, Renee Olstead, and others, who make restrictions in the flow of jazz music has begun to blur. Nevertheless, the point is not the stream itself, but the Jazz is now global.
