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The History of Jazz
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The History of Jazz Jazz is a type of music that was firstly developed around the year 1895 in New Orleans. To create this type of music, elements from many types of music were mixed, including Ragtime, marching band music, and blues. The difference between this newly developed music called Jazz, and the earlier styles of music was the improvising that was done to the music, by many of the players in each band or orchestra. Jazz music was very different to the traditional Western Music, and was a "break " For Jazz players to play in a Jazz band in the earlier years, they were simply given a few notes of chords to play in, which they would create their own melodies from. This is what made Jazz so unique, how every instrument would be playing their own separate, individual melody, but the instruments were able to fit together as...
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