Censored versions for teachers and their classes: With Bleep: ua-cam.com/video/pp7BgnWvuXA/v-deo.html Without Bleep; expletives silenced: ua-cam.com/video/V8jt7bJJ8XM/v-deo.html
@@janethampton6671 haha dont worry, honestly leave the comment anyway- any interaction helps boost the algorithm 🤷♂️. Hope this is good for your class
yes you read our minds, thank you, will use the censored version. Also, some of us wouldn't be bored shitless to hear more theoretical analysis, e.g. your discussion of your experiment with Bartok / Coltrane elements.
I'm writing an essay on Jazz right now and listening to this really helped contextualize alot without having to trawl through lengthy wordy articles so thank you so much! Also, having the lense of your personal character and energy and the little comedic flairs really makes it much more interesting than any boring article I could have found. Thank you so much :D
Please, read my reply insteed. I am a "conservatory" trained perfoming artist, and music historian, past, yet present. I consider myself a Music Anthropologist. Regurgitating what some Ass-Hat on UA-cam told you is no sub-reference for your formal education. Nor does it contextualize the historical facts. All our knowlege, prior to the recording, and motion picture industry, is learned through what has been writen by first hand journalists, and the interpretation of those journalist's observations.
I really appreciate the emphasis you put on the colonial process, specially it being a central topic when talking about music that mixes african traditions with american ones, but is mostly overlooked since a lot of people (specially in Europe) prefer to look the other way instead of acknowledging what's happened. That's a part of history that cannot be overlooked, so great job!
Much props to you for mentioning colonialism and slavery - when talking about the history of the music and how much culture was eradicated by Europeans. I expected you would skip over it, but you didn't and I thank you for it.
I need this video to be longer!!! It will be amazing if I can hear a bit of every genre you talked about. I really enjoy it but I'm sure everybody will appreciate a longer version.
Really awesome video! You covered a lot of bases, without being overly technical. Jazz has been going on for over 120 years, so it’s kind of hard to define in a nutshell. About 40 years ago,when I became musician, I was flabbergasted by this guy I met in high school who was a very gifted improviser. So I started trying to improvise myself. Still impressed to this day by people who improvise well,as it takes a lot of practice and study! Again , great video, my friend, Cheers from the USA!
I'm 3 years late, but I gotta say your presentation style is unique and refreshing! I'm paused at 1:11 to write this comment, so I can't speak on the rest of the video yet, but I like the personality of it so far. Nice work!
i just watched a few videos about jazz history but yours was definitely the most fun and interesting to watch just because you have such an inspirational und fun way to talk about something your obviously passionated about!!
I'm very impressed and entertained with this video. I've never been interested in this genre of music but took an Introduction to Music class for humanities credits. The assignment I'm working on now is a jazz timeline and I must say, my interests are peeked. Thank you!
Wow, by the quality of this video I thought you had hundreds of thousands of subscribers. That was a very fun and informative video to watch, thank you for uploading it!
Followed a link on a reddit thread and now I'm here. I'm not musically inclined at all but I do love Jazz and so, this was very interesting! Look forward to more music knowledge videos.
Dam it!!!! As a middle school music teacher, I was hoping to use this in my class. Its perfect...except for your expletive rather early on. Too bad. Its perfect!
Really incredibly informative and captivating video! I also loved your discussion at the end on how jazz fusion continues to evolve. I went to school for jazz sax however spent most of my life producing hip hop. I decided last year to start releasing ‘trap jazz’ where I combine jazz sax improvisation over current sounding hip hop production 🥂
I randomly got curious about where jazz came from, (and also I wanted to know the meaning behind the sarcastic look on Blake Lively’s character Adeline when the guy puts on “jazz”) and this video made me stayed focused long enough to actually watch and learn, which happens rarely. Anyways I loved your vid!
Enjoyed that, thanks, and could have watched a lot more. Good job on packing so much in, I'll probably rewatch later. Also, very rare for me to catch a premiere, and only just arrived home in time for this. I'd be interested in more videos about specific kinds of jazz and individual artists or groups, though I realise it's a massive subject. Love the channel.
Thanks for watching! Yeah I'm thinking of some more jazz topics to talk about, might go into free jazz a bit deeper or maybe explore the third stream. 💫
Good video overall but I feel like what many consider the golden era of jazz (late 50s - early 60s) was almost completely skipped. I would love a video to explain how bebop evolved into hard bop, cool jazz, jazz fusion etc and what the difference is between these. Like, how would one recognize the difference between bebop and hard bop?
Ultimately jazz was a fusion of western and African culture, the music theory and instruments of the west and rhythm and breaking away from the rigidness of western music theory of Africa . Nothing exists in a vacuum including music. I cant think of any Jazz musicians black or not that wasn't trained in western music theory or played a western instrument.
Ironically it would have actually been good if you hadn't blah-blahd your analysis/explanation of your experiment in combining Bartok with Coltrane. Particularly for those of us nerdy enough to watch right til the end.
me after 2 minutes of video: SO COOL OMG I'M LOVING THIS Let's see how it ends Pretty cool video so far, well explained with slight funny moments, so yes
Another lovely video, thanks! You really make engaging videos. It seems to be a pretty common thing for us classical music nerds to also love jazz. I love late Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor and those European free jazz artists like Evan Parker, Brötzmann and von Schlippenbach. Sometimes they almost sound like modern classical music. More than once I've felt that Pierre Boulez's piano sonatas kinda sound like Cecil Taylor. And that's high praise for both since I love both Boulez and Taylor.
Oh I love jazz so much, I'm constantly incorporating into my work. I've actually got a bass clarient project coming up that's going to be a jazz/contemporary classical fusion. I know what you mean when you say modern classical sounds very jazz-like, i think composers are more and more realising the value of the genre
Jazz is a 100% American born style of music, with its origins evolving in the mid-19th century as African/European-Americans, and Immigrants, migrated west. Who stopped over in the saloons and played the piano for hotel money as they saved to move further west. You could earn a jar full of coins and bills if you could keep the crowd entertained for a few hours by playing the latest pop songs, classical greats, or improvising your own interpretations of the latter. The newly emancipated Afro-Americans, who learned to play piano, and made to entertain their white guests on Sundays, who's background was in gospel, folk, and blues. The Anglo-Americans, whose background was in country, pop, and classical. The eastern immigrants whose background was in classical, folk, and other "ethnic" sounds, also contributed to this free-range melting pot. People think Jazz began when the first records, or movie films came out. But Jazz was around many, many years before that. Long before Louis Armstrong coined the term for modern music as "Jazz". Rag-Time was also Jazz. And existed long before Louis was even born. Jazz was the first great American music stemming from generations, cultures, and topographical locations from all around this country. I am tired of these pansy-ass self-loathing-WHITE bitches, who think that if they continue kissing the asses of African-Americans, then they will be redeemed for the sins of their ancestors. Not true! You will NEVER be redeemed, because of all the other shit they did! Anyway. I will, and do, give credit where credit is due, and I do credit the African-American ancestry for their extensive contributions to the jazz world. Now, you also have to understand that there were many other avenues of jazz music. It wasn’t just Dixieland, or New York, Chicago, Memphis, Boston, Chattanooga, and so on. Swing, Bebop, and Rag. The elements came from all directions, and all walks of life. You can call Claude Debussy, or Frederic Chopin's music, Jazz, because they were modern (at the time) styles that represented contemporary instruments, and ideas, that had new and innovative rhythms. As did the Gospel, and blues influence, at that time, of the Afro-American culture, which had its rhythmical roots going back to West-East-African culture. And let us not forget the Latin American sounds at that time from Peru, and other South American cultures. I apologize in advance, but I once heard a joke, or comment, (no names mentioned) by another musician, (you know who you are) who said that "white people invented the Blues, because if it wasn’t for them, Black people would have nothing to complain about." In a way, that's sort of true, funny, but not funny at all. In fact, I get that it’s a thoughtless statement, but the fact that there is a slight glimmer of truth, makes it ironically funny. I know... "Asshole!" Anyway, to wrap shit up. The western saloons is where modern American Music evolved, later to be called JAZZ. By, who I believe was, Louis Armstrong. And I do thank, love, and "appreciate" very much, the contributions of African-American people. Who I consider, my fellow American brothers and sisters. But please, stop taking 100% of the credit. I'll give at least 60%. But 100% goes to the total American people. And I know you'll all flip if I mention Stephen Foster. So, I won't. But stop trying to re-right history... Jo Fraser! Who stole his name from a famous Black American hero. And, YES, I know that I will take a great shelling for this from the "woke" communities, but I know my music history, and I'm ready for your replies. Thank you for taking the time to read this. To me, ALL music is Jazz. And all Jazz musicians are family. Saloons...the most musically transformative gig in American history.
Jazz was created by African Americans. Keyword African. If African were never shipped to the Americas Via Trans Atlantic Slave trade their would be no Blues or Jazz. Jazz is simply an African interpretation of European Classical music. Foh
Haha this is great! It's like watching Ken Burn's 12 episode 'Jazz' series in the age of internet. Condensed and funny... Really great stuff, will be checking other videos soon :)
Great video! You should do it again where you have for audio examples of all the things you're talking about. To give us a better understanding of the differences along the way and how it changed.
That's a really good idea but unfortunately the nature of youtube means that the use of any copyrighted audio will be instantly flagged and my video will be restricted 😢
Jazz features melody with different types of harmonies, song structures, chords, lyrics, rhythms, ad lib solos and ensembles, using sophisticated instruments ( mostly of European origin). The so-called music from Africa doesn't contain most of these and their rhythm on drums isn't at all close to what jazz in its heyday used.
great to see some historical context around the colonialism and all the horrible things that this brings to our history, thanks for so didactive video! greetings from Brasil(Yeah with S)! Also, so damn good compressed historical knowledge content and infos, on such a small piece of time! great sintesis!
I know that in portuguese what is in english spelled "brazil" is spelled "brasil", but is there a specific reason to spell it with an s rather than a z?
Synopsis for yall making notes: Jazz first came into existence in form of spiritual music in Africa and focused more on rhythm than melody and harmony, using a variety of percussive instruments like drums and shakers. This type of african spiritual music layed the base of modern day jazz. This is noticeable by the way they layered many rhythms on top of each other, creating polyrhythms. Centuries later the atlantic slave trade had been in progress for years and enslaved the indigenous people of west Africa and generations of their descendants. These african slaves would start forming their own traditions, which of course included music, which was based on the spiritual music of their pre-slavery ancestors. This was the first appearance of Blues, which put heavy emphasis on conveying a story with meaning, mainly about what it was like to be black in America at the time, especially making clear the callousness of the 19th century slave traders (see Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"). Blues was slow and had heavy, meaningful lyrics. In the 1890s jazz evolved into Ragtime, which (usually played on pianos) was much faster in tempo and used syncopation. Ragtime was big, loud and bold and effectively served as a pick-me-up after the mourning of the Blues period. It focused on the present and looked away from all that was sad and depressing. People danced to it and forgot about the darkness in their lives with it. The 30s' and 40s' 'Swing' style was similar in that way. It took away from the doom and gloom of the Great Depression and general sadnesses of the time. Swing had clear intonation and used wooden and brass instruments, as well as little improvisation, in contrast to the recent style of jazz "New Orleans", which was prominent between 1900 and 1920. Swing used the "Call and Response" trope and had skipping beats, which was likely inspired by the spiritual music that kickstarted the jazz genre in the first place. In the 1940s Bebop was born. Bebop's very name hints at its core traits; it stems from scat sounds, which are the nonsensical improvised syllables of scat singing. Scatting itself is not dissimilar to Bebop in the way that it is hectic, irregular and heavily improvised. The idea of Bebop was that the player or singer could express their personalities and show their humanity as a 'black person in a white world'. TLDR: - Spiritual african music - Slavery - Blues (sad, mourning) - Ragtime (fast, loud, 1890s) - Swing (little improv, dance-happy songs, 1930s and 40s) - Bebop (self expression, hectic, much improv, 1940s)
Do you mean the history of American Jazz? I'm a fan of what they call French Cafe Music, and also some classical composers like Debussy and Satie. ( French colonialism is a whole depressing rabbit hole onto itself. ) As a musician myself, I didn't start out with the intention of shifting into a jazz direction, rather I wanting to take classical music in a slightly different direction. Although this has led to...unintentionally networking with Metal, Jazz, and Goth Rock. I'm also a bit more about improv.
You video moved me very much. I am blind and play the piano mainly classical but i'm falling in love with jaz for the first time in my life. From time to time growing up i'd listen to a Bill Evans album and think 'yeah right ok' but now I feel it. Surely Jaz has brought black adn white together and asian adn Jewish and all the rest. I had an argument with a blues teacdher who said tht Pebo Bricen is commercial radio crap and i said that wasn't fair because he has done lots of things. If anyone would likie to look for my blind piano teachers album Jan Rutherford a kind of blue on the abc tall poppies label. Sorry if it's hard to find. Jan died in 2003 saddly of lung cancre but she was cool i write this in memory of her. I am writing from sydney. I want to make a jaz trio but i don't know how to find a rhythm person etc. ANyone have a word of advice?
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Censored versions for teachers and their classes:
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Without Bleep; expletives silenced: ua-cam.com/video/V8jt7bJJ8XM/v-deo.html
ahhh......thank you ( I think) I hadn't seen this until after I pressed "send"
@@janethampton6671 haha dont worry, honestly leave the comment anyway- any interaction helps boost the algorithm 🤷♂️. Hope this is good for your class
Thank you for this :)
yes you read our minds, thank you, will use the censored version. Also, some of us wouldn't be bored shitless to hear more theoretical analysis, e.g. your discussion of your experiment with Bartok / Coltrane elements.
Thank you!! This is the best version I've found, and I was just thinking - dang - I can't use it in my piano studio. Now I can!!
I'm writing an essay on Jazz right now and listening to this really helped contextualize alot without having to trawl through lengthy wordy articles so thank you so much! Also, having the lense of your personal character and energy and the little comedic flairs really makes it much more interesting than any boring article I could have found. Thank you so much :D
Glad I could help 💚
haha it is funny that I'm in the same situation... BTW, nice and helpful video!!
I'd read it for fun if you don't mind.
saameee LOL
update: bruh i got an 88 on it
Please, read my reply insteed. I am a "conservatory" trained perfoming artist, and music historian, past, yet present. I consider myself a Music Anthropologist. Regurgitating what some Ass-Hat on UA-cam told you is no sub-reference for your formal education. Nor does it contextualize the historical facts. All our knowlege, prior to the recording, and motion picture industry, is learned through what has been writen by first hand journalists, and the interpretation of those journalist's observations.
I really appreciate the emphasis you put on the colonial process, specially it being a central topic when talking about music that mixes african traditions with american ones, but is mostly overlooked since a lot of people (specially in Europe) prefer to look the other way instead of acknowledging what's happened. That's a part of history that cannot be overlooked, so great job!
They hate acknowledging it. The funny part is we as blk people don’t care about the origins of styles of music. It’s only an issue when they hear it.
Much props to you for mentioning colonialism and slavery - when talking about the history of the music and how much culture was eradicated by Europeans. I expected you would skip over it, but you didn't and I thank you for it.
I need this video to be longer!!! It will be amazing if I can hear a bit of every genre you talked about. I really enjoy it but I'm sure everybody will appreciate a longer version.
I'm literally assigning this to my college class tomorrow. 100/10.
Dude you’re really fucking underrated
Thanks 💚
Absolutely, I like this channel.
Love the commentary, super insightful but incredibly entertaining.
I just wish he would not drop F bombs so teachers can share with students. I enjoy it as an adult though.
@@brianhonan4427 if you check the pinned comment you will see that their are multiple censored versions for use in class 💚
I'm just starting to explore jazz in more detail. This is a great help for understanding the roots of this great music!
This is THE most informative video on the history of Jazz!!! Thank you. You’re so smart and hilarious!
Really awesome video! You covered a lot of bases, without being overly technical. Jazz has been going on for over 120 years, so it’s kind of hard to define in a nutshell. About 40 years ago,when I became musician, I was flabbergasted by this guy I met in high school who was a very gifted improviser. So I started trying to improvise myself. Still impressed to this day by people who improvise well,as it takes a lot of practice and study! Again , great video, my friend, Cheers from the USA!
I'm 3 years late, but I gotta say your presentation style is unique and refreshing! I'm paused at 1:11 to write this comment, so I can't speak on the rest of the video yet, but I like the personality of it so far. Nice work!
i just watched a few videos about jazz history but yours was definitely the most fun and interesting to watch just because you have such an inspirational und fun way to talk about something your obviously passionated about!!
I'm very impressed and entertained with this video. I've never been interested in this genre of music but took an Introduction to Music class for humanities credits. The assignment I'm working on now is a jazz timeline and I must say, my interests are peeked. Thank you!
Jazz is wonderful and is so diverse that I think everyone can find something to like about it- I'm glad you found my video helpful!
Wow, by the quality of this video I thought you had hundreds of thousands of subscribers. That was a very fun and informative video to watch, thank you for uploading it!
I wish lmao, thanks
thank you so much for this, literally my new favorite channel
That's so nice thanks 💚 next video this Friday
Followed a link on a reddit thread and now I'm here. I'm not musically inclined at all but I do love Jazz and so, this was very interesting! Look forward to more music knowledge videos.
Thanks 🎉🎉
i saw this on reddit too
This is a really good vid
Yes
Yessir
This was superrrr informative and im so thankful for ur effort into researching all of this 😭
yoooo this is amazing work 🤩 finally my mans is getting the recognignition he deserves! keep it up bruh ❤️
I loved this so much! Thanks for making it! Jazz and pop are my favs♥️
I’m new to your channel, but I dig your vibe. I’m only a couple minutes into this video and I’m already sold.
Dam it!!!! As a middle school music teacher, I was hoping to use this in my class. Its perfect...except for your expletive rather early on. Too bad. Its perfect!
Thanks for mentioning Maria Chiara Argiro! I am loving her! What a find!
Great to see many of our tracks in this cool video! Very well done! ❤️👍🎷
I wish I had access to this when I was studying Jazz history as elective for my undergraduate degree. Very well done. 😊
Really incredibly informative and captivating video! I also loved your discussion at the end on how jazz fusion continues to evolve. I went to school for jazz sax however spent most of my life producing hip hop. I decided last year to start releasing ‘trap jazz’ where I combine jazz sax improvisation over current sounding hip hop production 🥂
I randomly got curious about where jazz came from, (and also I wanted to know the meaning behind the sarcastic look on Blake Lively’s character Adeline when the guy puts on “jazz”) and this video made me stayed focused long enough to actually watch and learn, which happens rarely. Anyways I loved your vid!
you had me at "oral tradition... DMFKLSDRNGISVDJGNFSKGDF" legendary video
You made the video very engaging and fun, thank you
2:55 You did not have to put that sound byte there but I am glad you did.
Love this wish it was longer, like probably each artist ur mentioned and other underrated ones and some Latino jazz and other countries jazz :)
i have never watched something so educational and entertaining at the same time. Thankyou for extricating my thoughts on this matter!
Enjoyed that, thanks, and could have watched a lot more. Good job on packing so much in, I'll probably rewatch later. Also, very rare for me to catch a premiere, and only just arrived home in time for this. I'd be interested in more videos about specific kinds of jazz and individual artists or groups, though I realise it's a massive subject. Love the channel.
Thanks for watching! Yeah I'm thinking of some more jazz topics to talk about, might go into free jazz a bit deeper or maybe explore the third stream. 💫
Same
Yeah this music video changed my life. Jazz helps me stay present.
Dude, you are insane! I only started learning about jazz and you just gave all the basic information. Thanks:)
I'm so glad I could help!
needed this for school and couldnt find anything online, thanks dude
Good video overall but I feel like what many consider the golden era of jazz (late 50s - early 60s) was almost completely skipped. I would love a video to explain how bebop evolved into hard bop, cool jazz, jazz fusion etc and what the difference is between these. Like, how would one recognize the difference between bebop and hard bop?
Bruh your channel is awesome thank you for your work 🙏
Horribly good, well done
Thanks homie I got a final for my jazz history class in 4 hours
Hope it went well!
Ultimately jazz was a fusion of western and African culture, the music theory and instruments of the west and rhythm and breaking away from the rigidness of western music theory of Africa . Nothing exists in a vacuum including music. I cant think of any Jazz musicians black or not that wasn't trained in western music theory or played a western instrument.
Jazz is black music
Ironically it would have actually been good if you hadn't blah-blahd your analysis/explanation of your experiment in combining Bartok with Coltrane. Particularly for those of us nerdy enough to watch right til the end.
I love that you have Giant Steps remix in your intro :)
You are great! Thank you for the excellent video
me after 2 minutes of video: SO COOL OMG I'M LOVING THIS
Let's see how it ends
Pretty cool video so far, well explained with slight funny moments, so yes
Another lovely video, thanks! You really make engaging videos. It seems to be a pretty common thing for us classical music nerds to also love jazz. I love late Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor and those European free jazz artists like Evan Parker, Brötzmann and von Schlippenbach. Sometimes they almost sound like modern classical music. More than once I've felt that Pierre Boulez's piano sonatas kinda sound like Cecil Taylor. And that's high praise for both since I love both Boulez and Taylor.
Oh I love jazz so much, I'm constantly incorporating into my work. I've actually got a bass clarient project coming up that's going to be a jazz/contemporary classical fusion. I know what you mean when you say modern classical sounds very jazz-like, i think composers are more and more realising the value of the genre
Loved the music theory moments, simple enough even for me to understand. And of course your delivery ;) thanks!
What a great video. I enjoyed the progressively more monged takes on Giant Steps.
Hilarious, informative, and entertaining. Rrelly got a kick out of the social commentary. Well done sir!
Jazz is a 100% American born style of music, with its origins evolving in the mid-19th century as African/European-Americans, and Immigrants, migrated west. Who stopped over in the saloons and played the piano for hotel money as they saved to move further west. You could earn a jar full of coins and bills if you could keep the crowd entertained for a few hours by playing the latest pop songs, classical greats, or improvising your own interpretations of the latter. The newly emancipated Afro-Americans, who learned to play piano, and made to entertain their white guests on Sundays, who's background was in gospel, folk, and blues. The Anglo-Americans, whose background was in country, pop, and classical. The eastern immigrants whose background was in classical, folk, and other "ethnic" sounds, also contributed to this free-range melting pot. People think Jazz began when the first records, or movie films came out. But Jazz was around many, many years before that. Long before Louis Armstrong coined the term for modern music as "Jazz". Rag-Time was also Jazz. And existed long before Louis was even born. Jazz was the first great American music stemming from generations, cultures, and topographical locations from all around this country. I am tired of these pansy-ass self-loathing-WHITE bitches, who think that if they continue kissing the asses of African-Americans, then they will be redeemed for the sins of their ancestors. Not true! You will NEVER be redeemed, because of all the other shit they did! Anyway. I will, and do, give credit where credit is due, and I do credit the African-American ancestry for their extensive contributions to the jazz world. Now, you also have to understand that there were many other avenues of jazz music. It wasn’t just Dixieland, or New York, Chicago, Memphis, Boston, Chattanooga, and so on. Swing, Bebop, and Rag. The elements came from all directions, and all walks of life. You can call Claude Debussy, or Frederic Chopin's music, Jazz, because they were modern (at the time) styles that represented contemporary instruments, and ideas, that had new and innovative rhythms. As did the Gospel, and blues influence, at that time, of the Afro-American culture, which had its rhythmical roots going back to West-East-African culture. And let us not forget the Latin American sounds at that time from Peru, and other South American cultures. I apologize in advance, but I once heard a joke, or comment, (no names mentioned) by another musician, (you know who you are) who said that "white people invented the Blues, because if it wasn’t for them, Black people would have nothing to complain about." In a way, that's sort of true, funny, but not funny at all. In fact, I get that it’s a thoughtless statement, but the fact that there is a slight glimmer of truth, makes it ironically funny. I know... "Asshole!" Anyway, to wrap shit up. The western saloons is where modern American Music evolved, later to be called JAZZ. By, who I believe was, Louis Armstrong. And I do thank, love, and "appreciate" very much, the contributions of African-American people. Who I consider, my fellow American brothers and sisters. But please, stop taking 100% of the credit. I'll give at least 60%. But 100% goes to the total American people. And I know you'll all flip if I mention Stephen Foster. So, I won't. But stop trying to re-right history... Jo Fraser! Who stole his name from a famous Black American hero. And, YES, I know that I will take a great shelling for this from the "woke" communities, but I know my music history, and I'm ready for your replies. Thank you for taking the time to read this. To me, ALL music is Jazz. And all Jazz musicians are family. Saloons...the most musically transformative gig in American history.
Lol
I think the % is 62.4 my latest calculation based on my extensive knowledge of jazz history .
Jazz was created by African Americans. Keyword African. If African were never shipped to the Americas Via Trans Atlantic Slave trade their would be no Blues or Jazz. Jazz is simply an African interpretation of European Classical music. Foh
Really love your video essays! 💜 Keep 'em comin' 🌻
AMAZING VIDEO!! Thank you!
You’re such a cute jazz nerd/musician!Love the content and alien giant steps transitions 🤘💜
Fantastic video! Excited to have stumbled onto your channel.
Okay but what if we want to here the peice you composed to get into music school, it sounded very interesting
😂I'm still working myself up to showing that piece. Maybe I'll get a pianist to play it then I'll put the recording on this channel!
learn the difference between "here" and "hear" if you want to know about music!
Haha this is great! It's like watching Ken Burn's 12 episode 'Jazz' series in the age of internet. Condensed and funny... Really great stuff, will be checking other videos soon :)
this is good good good. i like it. yes yes
I loved this video, thank you! 🤍
Thank you! Trying to immerse myself into jazz and this video helps with brief history
Really enjoyable and informative. Keep it up!
Great video. I have been playing piano for 2 years just playing songs i like. But i want to start learning jazz to grow as a musician.
Great video! You should do it again where you have for audio examples of all the things you're talking about. To give us a better understanding of the differences along the way and how it changed.
That's a really good idea but unfortunately the nature of youtube means that the use of any copyrighted audio will be instantly flagged and my video will be restricted 😢
you‘re so underrated this is amazing!
Wow, haven't seen such thing on UA-cam for quite a long time.
So helpful and well done, thank you!
Jazz features melody with different types of harmonies, song structures, chords, lyrics, rhythms, ad lib solos and ensembles, using sophisticated instruments ( mostly of European origin). The so-called music from Africa doesn't contain most of these and their rhythm on drums isn't at all close to what jazz in its heyday used.
That was so HELPFUL!! Thanks for the crash course haha
AWESOME VID
Oh boy, this is a godsend
If you're a teacher using this for a class I have two different censored versions pinned in the top comment :)
great to see some historical context around the colonialism and all the horrible things that this brings to our history, thanks for so didactive video! greetings from Brasil(Yeah with S)! Also, so damn good compressed historical knowledge content and infos, on such a small piece of time! great sintesis!
I know that in portuguese what is in english spelled "brazil" is spelled "brasil", but is there a specific reason to spell it with an s rather than a z?
jus a anticolonial way to spell the name of my country. @@rina-ht4cc
Thank you this is dope
Awesome vid!!
Synopsis for yall making notes:
Jazz first came into existence in form of spiritual music in Africa and focused more on rhythm than melody and harmony, using a variety of percussive instruments like drums and shakers.
This type of african spiritual music layed the base of modern day jazz.
This is noticeable by the way they layered many rhythms on top of each other, creating polyrhythms.
Centuries later the atlantic slave trade had been in progress for years and enslaved the indigenous people of west Africa and generations of their descendants.
These african slaves would start forming their own traditions, which of course included music, which was based on the spiritual music of their pre-slavery ancestors.
This was the first appearance of Blues, which put heavy emphasis on conveying a story with meaning, mainly about what it was like to be black in America at the time, especially making clear the callousness of the 19th century slave traders (see Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit").
Blues was slow and had heavy, meaningful lyrics.
In the 1890s jazz evolved into Ragtime, which (usually played on pianos) was much faster in tempo and used syncopation. Ragtime was big, loud and bold and effectively served as a pick-me-up after the mourning of the Blues period. It focused on the present and looked away from all that was sad and depressing. People danced to it and forgot about the darkness in their lives with it.
The 30s' and 40s' 'Swing' style was similar in that way. It took away from the doom and gloom of the Great Depression and general sadnesses of the time.
Swing had clear intonation and used wooden and brass instruments, as well as little improvisation, in contrast to the recent style of jazz "New Orleans", which was prominent between 1900 and 1920.
Swing used the "Call and Response" trope and had skipping beats, which was likely inspired by the spiritual music that kickstarted the jazz genre in the first place.
In the 1940s Bebop was born. Bebop's very name hints at its core traits; it stems from scat sounds, which are the nonsensical improvised syllables of scat singing.
Scatting itself is not dissimilar to Bebop in the way that it is hectic, irregular and heavily improvised.
The idea of Bebop was that the player or singer could express their personalities and show their humanity as a 'black person in a white world'.
TLDR:
- Spiritual african music
- Slavery
- Blues (sad, mourning)
- Ragtime (fast, loud, 1890s)
- Swing (little improv, dance-happy songs, 1930s and 40s)
- Bebop (self expression, hectic, much improv, 1940s)
Very informative video, great work!
Thank you so much for making this!!
thanks for the interesting history lesson; good humor btw, i really enjoyed !
I love jazz, and love what you did hear
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Do you mean the history of American Jazz? I'm a fan of what they call French Cafe Music, and also some classical composers like Debussy and Satie.
( French colonialism is a whole depressing rabbit hole onto itself. )
As a musician myself, I didn't start out with the intention of shifting into a jazz direction, rather I wanting to take classical music in a slightly different direction. Although this has led to...unintentionally networking with Metal, Jazz, and Goth Rock. I'm also a bit more about improv.
You video moved me very much. I am blind and play the piano mainly classical but i'm falling in love with jaz for the first time in my life. From time to time growing up i'd listen to a Bill Evans album and think 'yeah right ok' but now I feel it. Surely Jaz has brought black adn white together and asian adn Jewish and all the rest. I had an argument with a blues teacdher who said tht Pebo Bricen is commercial radio crap and i said that wasn't fair because he has done lots of things. If anyone would likie to look for my blind piano teachers album Jan Rutherford a kind of blue on the abc tall poppies label. Sorry if it's hard to find. Jan died in 2003 saddly of lung cancre but she was cool i write this in memory of her. I am writing from sydney. I want to make a jaz trio but i don't know how to find a rhythm person etc. ANyone have a word of advice?
This video got me a good grade in music. so thanks
Fucking impressive
I love you! Legend! Big thanks!
Awesome video. Thank you!!
Thank you .
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this is just excellent!
Fantastic video!!
Your humour man. So delicious
Thank you for making me laugh while learning
great video thank you! also cool the giant steps with synthesizers haha
Thanks, the full track is on my soundcloud 💚
I have a final on this in a couple hours. Hopefully this helps.
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Only 1 minute in and love this energy already 😆
i love this video. it explained jazz so well for my tiny brain to understand 😹
thank you for including hellzapoppin clip!
WOW!! Great intro to jazz!