The essence of Jazz music is so versatile, because the sources from which it first started. In fact, New Orleans, Louisiana, where jazz began between 1850 and 1900 by African slaves and free people of color. The first style of music known as Dixieland jazz.

Africa and Middle West, can not hear the improvisation is a complex rhythmic percussion instruments, is often out of the music. These rhythms mixed with American Spirituals, Hymns, Blues and Blue Grass hillbilly musical sounds created a sort of starting a jazz performance. Still, the music was just unusual noise, without a specific reason to call it fifteen years later in 1915. Really an incredible pianist Earl Hines born in 1903 had this kind of music before the title Jazz became an official style of music. The “Jazz” word, that was previously written as “Jass” has its origin as a form of American slang used to describe the appearance of music.

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