Brief History of Jazz

Of all the musical styles in the world, the most expressive and captivating is Jazz. Known for its styles, rhythms, scales and structure, it acts as an intermediary between classical music and rock 'n' roll. With its varying instruments, techniques and performers, it strokes the listener with cool, gentle hands, or bats them with hard, swift paws, whirls them away to a world conducted by the soul. The main idea of Jazz is freedom, about …

…us to be free, without the normal boundaries that occur in music. It was thanks to the hard working musicians from the late 1800s that Jazz was so successful. Slavery and racism formed work songs and Gospel music, which in turn formed blues, and the normal classical musicians who composed marches that influenced ragtime, and, of course, the human spirit, because without an internal yearning for freedom, 'Jazz' as we know it would never existed.