History of Jazz Music

As well as classical music, most people do tend to think of this kind of music is too heavy, abstract, and difficult to digest. In addition, jazz music often stereotyped as the elite or the gedongan, despite the fact that among the "gedongan" itself, is actually a fan of jazz music lovers or still are minorities. Even among young people today have common notion that jazz is "a boring old people's music and make us sleepy."
The emergence of the image for this unfavorable jazz originate in a dominant sense that the primary function of music is to entertain and to give satisfaction to the audience, with the aim to benefit. The development of technology, the emergence of a tape recorder -19 in the last century has resulted in a major shift in the art music world: if at first the music is a pure expression of human feelings into products then now is the music recording industry and commodity trading.  

Capitalism music industry has also shifted the old music that shows the cultural identity of each ethnic / nation in the world, and in its place emerged a new kind of music that transcends and shed the cultural differences that exist, namely the so-called "popular music". Without prejudice to the creativity of musicians pop (only a small part of pop musicians have original creativity!), Actually does little pop compositions are standardized forms or reproduction of momentary trends, and this phenomenon is likely to take place globally.
In this respect noteworthy that jazz emerged as a musical transition from "traditional" to music "popular". In early development, jazz can diketegorikan as an example of traditional music, where the music is very representative of expression and culture of black people in the United States. As the music that represents a society that discriminated against, the development of this kind of music will also experience much the same fate.  

The emergence of flow swing in the 1930s brought significant changes in the way people look at music, which ultimately affects the categorization of jazz position among other music. The era was marked by the emergence of jazz swing band with a large number of players (big band), which can be seen as a form of European-style orchestration applied in jazz, although retaining the principal characteristics, such as improvisation, syncopation and blue notes (condescending tone on the third and seventh notes, is characteristic of blues and jazz music). With these developments, jazz music is no longer considered "barbarians" as synonymous with black people.  

At that time, jazz has even become popular music, with its swing rhythms suitable for dancing, and jazz at that time also began to spread to other parts of the world such as Europe or Asia. Not a bit of jazz compositions of musicians sort of George Gershwin, Cole Porter or Duke Ellington was named a film soundtrack, and the compositions are actually a pop song in his day.
The development of jazz music entertainment increasingly leads to the reaction among black jazz musicians. Some of them such as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie bebop then introduce, a new style of jazz in the late 1940s.  

The appearance is often referred to as the bebop revolution in jazz, because supposedly the exponent has a new spirit which aims to restore the essence of jazz music as "art" is typical of the Negro. The flow is characterized by the development of a new formation of the band / combo in a more minimalist with the consequences of the vastness of space for improvised solos each player. Besides style big band swing with his formation, bebop and some variations that appear later (hard bop, cool jazz, and so on) into the mainstream (mainstream) and the center of the development of the jazz world to the present day.

Since the "revolution" bebop, jazz seems likely to evolve into a genre that is more exclusive than ever before and more visible apart from many other genres. Indeed, jazz and then really developed into a musical "art" with a high degree of difficulty, as well as classical music. In times of today will be more prevalent jazz musicians graduated from music schools, despite the fact that the lord early jazz music almost entirely self-taught learning. As a musical genre that increasingly requires seriousness