Jazz music - Definition
Where am i -> Home -> Jazz -> Jazz music - Definition The jazz, in first analysis, would thus be determined by a work of sound matter and a development of rhythm, that being lived on the mode of a balance, or swinging, to which returns the concept of swing, a musical parameter  "of variable appreciation, partly subjective, and of hazardous definition" (Jacques Réda), because untranslatable as a sign of musical theory. Impregnated memory of various African traditions and ineluctably influenced by what they collect (which is imposed to them or that they "braconnent") in their environment, the first musicians afro-American (singers, dancers, instrumentalists)"modernize" their message: in the churches and the temples (Negro spirituals and gospel songs), balls and cabarets, varieties, circuses, festivals and military parades or civil. To the drums and banjos of African origin, whose forms and techniques more or less resisted the lapse of memory (or prohibited to Masters), the instruments of European tradition are added; violin, guitar, piano and, especially, instruments wind (trumpet, saxophone, clarinet and trombone) which makes it possible "to sing", i.e. to cry, shout, of laughing. Mostly improvised, this jazz of the beginning is invented by starting from harmonies often borrowed from the hymns, the blues, the popular airs, the musicians embroidering, embellishing, paraphrasing in order to create new melodies. As fanfares and orphéons are often the most privileged places, and more or less the model, from these exploratory meetings, they obtain, with the liking of the collective improvisation, a manner of counterpoint with three votes (trumpet, clarinet, trombone), polyphony quasi miraculous that one could say "néo-orléanaise".

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