Jazz - A Healer

Jazz -  a music genre developing proud and loud with a tagline of being as complicated as pieces of strings entangled onto each other. Indeed jazz has roots sprouting in and toward different corners of the globe. Jazz legend Louis Armstrong once said, "If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know". This statement defines the versatility the genre has. Every musician from a different place carries off the genre with their own approach. Jazz's influential grid and profound presence in the global music area has left marks in every other musical genre and music culture known to man.

With its origins in the US in the early 20th century, in its early stages, the genre was merely African Americans grooving to European style music - a clash of African  rhythm and technique with European classical and folk music. With time, jazz not only evolved within the Afro-American community but also traveled across borders paving the way for many styles with the elegance of jazz. The music, due to multiple evolution and swift changes does not have a definite style or sound unlike other genres of music. In just over a century, it has turned out to be one of, if not the most, versatile music genres. Probably due to its dynamic persona causing changes in style, in a 1988 interview trombone player JJ Johnson said, "Jazz is restless. It won't stay put and it never will".

I love jazz - don't you? I shall write about it more in my next post.