About ten years ago, nahui just bought a car, and wanted to burn a few CDs to listen to in the car, so he looked for songs everywhere, and accidentally found the two songs "Start From Here" and "i love you", which were almost looped during that time, and the lazy and sexy tone and rhythmic melody sounded very comfortable. During that time, the café was full of tunes from these two songs, and it was all the rage. I deliberately searched for it, and I learned that these two songs are the main works of Wang Ruolin, who is known as the "jazz goddess", which is my initial impression of jazz.
The origin of jazz is an expression of the yearning and release of life and emotion, focusing on improvisation, originated in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, born in the southern port city of New Orleans, and the musical roots came from Blues and Ragtime. (Source: Baidu)
The Jazz Chronicle, written by the famous British pianist and composer Mervine Cook, is a biographical work about the development of jazz in the past and present. In chronological order, starting from the origin of jazz, this book details important time nodes and development stages, as well as important representative figures, works, concerts, albums, etc. in the past two hundred years, and carefully lists the development process of jazz in the form of memorabilia, so that people can better understand and familiarize themselves with all aspects of this art form.
Art comes from life, but life is not always smooth. The vague West African traditions maintained by slaves on 19th-century American plantations were gradually combined with the tonality and structure of European classical music to form an exciting new art form. This musical style is relaxed, catchy, and the melody is even more fascinating. Scott Joplin carefully transformed this "Ragtime" style into a novel art form, which was the original form of jazz.
From New Orleans to the East Coast, from style to concept, the birth of modern jazz, and the blues of the new millennium, jazz across the centuries of art is extremely diverse, it recompiles traditional music and culture, and presents itself in a more easy-going and dazzling style. Generally speaking, the development of each art form cannot avoid the baptism of social turmoil and war, and then the gap between rich and poor and the unfair environment, so the development of jazz, like other art forms, has been constantly merging and changing along the way, and finally forming its own unique form.
The book contains more than 350 old photographs of the development of jazz music, and the form of the photo presentation is bound to be more intuitive than the text. From the characters to the album, from the poster to the performance scene, from the manuscript to the instrument, and with detailed literary information, it constitutes this weighty "Jazz Chronicle" in the hands of music lovers.