jazz Jazz is a music genre born in the late nineteenth century in the United States, which expanded globally throughout the twentieth century. Among the many attempts to define and describe the complex phenomenon of jazz, German critic and scholar...
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jazz Jazz is a music genre born in the late nineteenth century in the United States, which expanded globally throughout the twentieth century. Among the many attempts to define and describe the complex phenomenon of jazz, German critic and scholar Joachim-Ernst Berendt, in his classic Jazz: New Orleans jazz rock, states: Jazz is a musical art form that originated in the United States through the confrontation of blacks with European music. Instrumentation, melody and harmony of jazz are primarily derived from the musical tradition of the West. Rhythm, phrasing and sound production, and the harmony of blues elements derived from African music and musical concept afroamericanos.
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