Some Different Jazz Music Styles
Many of the dance elements of bebop eventually faded away and transformed into real music by musicians like Clifford Brown, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Ray Brown, and Sonny Stitt who really didn't want anything to do with commercial type music. What these musicians were trying to accomplish was to use jazz musicians in the past; people like: Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Art Tatum and Earl Hines in an attempt to take their jazz music to a higher level than it was at the time.
Over time jazz music started evolving and started moving away from basic melodies to start producing more complex chordal sounds as well is dissonant tones and even chromatic patterns as well. Some of these dissonant tones that you hear all the time in Jazz music are usually heard when two or more tones are played at the same time in a clashing manner that can be referred to as sounding strange or even terrible. This of course depends on how the tones all fit together from a particular key. If you use lowered fifths and raised fourths a lot, there is also a good chance he could start hearing clashing sounds.
The music's chromatic sound will allow any musician to play all of the 12 tones of these instruments without having to worry about any type of interference. Substitute chords are easy for musicians to play as well as altered chords which have the ability to change any key at a moments notice. There is been lots of change in the rhythm which has become more apparent which are used in most types of jazz music these days. In many cases the symbols were hit in predictable patterns while other musical instruments like the bass drum and snare are usually hit on a more random schedule.
For those of you that don't know what soul jazz is, it's a type of music that started out around the late 1950s and has its roots tied to gospel as well soul using musical instruments such as the tenor saxophone. Ramsey Lewis was a popular radio figure in this time period and he wrote a song called" the in crowd" which ended up being a hit song back in 1965. The music signature of soul Jazz included changing the tempo songs as well as powerful bass lines.
Bill Evans developed his own music style, and was a pianist that made his claim to fame by producing a few different jazz music styles using major and minor medieval church modes that made different types of sounds between these two notes. The matter what key they were using, the musicians were allowed to form new harmonies which broke all the music rules as we know them and is often referred to as Modal music.
Jazz music started integrating with rock 'n roll around the 1960s and 1970s which really ticked off a lot of jazz lovers. This amalgamation that took place is commonly referred to as jazz fusion. Complicated chordal harmonies are what make this music up. Also syncopating rhythms and oddly marked meters are another characteristic of this type of music. The type of instruments that are used in jazz fusion of the same type of instruments that today's bands are using like the electric guitar, the synthesizer and electric piano, as well as the bass guitar. Some well-known musicians like Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Miles Davis and Frank Zappa were known to be lovers of jazz fusion music.
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