Jazz musicians like to play their songs in their own distinct styles, and so you might listen to a dozen different jazz recordings of the same song, but each will sound different.
The musicians' playing styles make each version different, and so do the improvised solos. Jazz is about making something familiar--a familiar song--into something fresh.
And about making something shared--a tune that everyone knows--into somethingpersonal. Those are just some of the reasons that jazz is a great art form, and why some people consider it "America's classical music.
Jazz developed in the United States in the very early part of the 20th century. New Orleans, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, played a key role in this development. The city's population was more diverse than anywhere else in the South, and people of African, French, Caribbean, Italian, German, Mexican, and American Indian, as well as English, descent interacted with one another.
African-American musical traditions mixed with others and gradually jazz emerged from a blend of ragtime, marches, blues, and other kinds of music. We don't care for some kinds of music, but we LOVE other kinds! Everyone is different and has different tastes in music!
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What do you like about each of these performances? What don't you like? Write several paragraphs comparing and contrasting these renditions of this classic jazz staple. Check out today's date on Today in Jazz History. Choose something that happened on this day in jazz history and do some additional research on the subject with an adult.
Perform a newscast as though you were a reporter with an exclusive. Take in some sweet jazz via Groovin' to Jazz. Listen to the selections on this page or at least some of them! Talk about what you liked and didn't like about each song. How do you think they all qualify as jazz?
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Madison's 2 favorite jazz musicians are Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Lauren's 2 favorite are the same as Madison's. We just read a book on jazz about 6 different people and about jazz today that video was good. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong. When my mom, Jeanette, got pregnant with me, she was convinced she was going to have a girl.
If it moves in a circle, a girl is supposedly on the way. It just took a little longer for everyone to realize the fetus fairies actually got it right with me. As I began to grow, my family thought my obsessive interest in girly things was just a normal developmental phase. I have really strong memories of the emotions I felt before I could speak, as well as my actions—I figured out how to undo the snaps on my onesie to turn it into a dress shortly after I began to walk.
My little penis felt so wrong on me. It definitely bothered me, but I remember feeling frustrated and confused more than anything else. She misunderstood, thinking I was trying to show off my independence and letting her know that I could dress myself just like my older sister did.
I get why she would have assumed that at first. I was an extremely self-reliant toddler. And during the day, what made me comfortable was wearing a dress. Around the house, I was pretty much allowed to wear whatever I wanted.
In fact, I first started wearing those heels back when I was still in diapers. Sometimes it helps people understand the feeling better if I put it like this: Imagine a young boy who is super into trucks and cars and playing in the mud.
Then imagine that every time his parents take him out in public, they parade him around in a pink frilly dress with a parasol. The more words I learned, the more I started to verbalize my feelings. I had no idea that I was asleep—the world seemed crystal clear as a grown woman wearing a blue gown floated into the room.
Other than those fantasy details, she looked and acted like an adult, full of purpose and authority.
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