Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime.
Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music, linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage.
Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation.
The few times I had gone to New Orleans, I would stand sometimes just to listen to the Jazz music. Some of the best music you could ever hear. New Orleans is one of my favorite places to visit. Let me know if you have ever been and give me a story.
For this months challenge we are featuring Jazz music and musicians. Five books to be entered in our monthly drawing and have to be a member of the LPL Readers Club. If you are not a member, you can always check out a book about Jazz to enjoy it.
I plan on reading The Axeman by Ray Celestin. I read his nonfiction book Axeman of New Orleans a few years ago. I like crime history and serial killer type of thrillers. It was interesting. So I decided to go more into that and read his fiction book.
One of the other books I plan to read is Acid Jazz Singer by Nya Rawlins. Only because I like to read fantasy type science fiction.
Let me know what you plan to read. I love to hear what people are reading.
Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music, linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage.
Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation.
The few times I had gone to New Orleans, I would stand sometimes just to listen to the Jazz music. Some of the best music you could ever hear. New Orleans is one of my favorite places to visit.
Let me know if you have ever been and give me a story.
For this months challenge we are featuring Jazz music and musicians. Five books to be entered in our monthly drawing and have to be a member of the LPL Readers Club. If you are not a member, you can always check out a book about Jazz to enjoy it.
I plan on reading The Axeman by Ray Celestin. I read his nonfiction book Axeman of New Orleans a few years ago. I like crime history and serial killer type of thrillers. It was interesting. So I decided to go more into that and read his fiction book.
One of the other books I plan to read is Acid Jazz Singer by Nya Rawlins. Only because I like to read fantasy type science fiction.
Let me know what you plan to read. I love to hear what people are reading.