Essay - All that Jazz the Purpose of This Paper is to...

All that Jazz

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the *****pic ***** music appreciation. Specifically, it will ***** my personal attraction to jazz ***** and some of its composers ***** performers. Jazz music has been called a p*****rticularly American invention, and the many forms of ***** epitomize a successful ***** exciting country on the move. Jazz encompasses many facets of music, from be-bop to swing, and one testament to jazz's endurance is its continued popularity today. Jazz breathes life into the listener, and embodies ***** in America.

*****, a state of mind! " (Osgood 7)

Jazz is a uniquely ***** creation, ***** perhaps ***** ***** ***** reason I enjoy it so much. In ***** early part of the 20th century, the ***** we call jazz and blues were beginning to develop into popular *****ngs people *****ed. One critic writes, "Unquestionably, the most significant contribution made to music by ***** United States in the period under discussion lay in the field of ***** music" (Hansen 84). Jazz used atypical syncopation and "blues notes," which included a complex variation on the major scale. Most music experts believe jazz and ***** blues developed from black spirituals and folk music ***** the South, and stretched from New Orleans to Chicago and then the East. ***** due course, jazz would influence later styles of music, such ***** ***** and swing. In fact, jazz helped generate a popul*****r music rage that seized the country. That passion for jazz continues today. Jazz also influenced o*****r styles of *****, as the ***** ********** compositions of George Gershwin and Aaron Copland clearly illustrate. Nowhere is ***** influence more evident than in "Rhapsody in Blue," ***** deftly switches from bawdy all out jazz, to classical piano solo, and lush, romantic string orchestration in just a few b*****rs. An early ***** writer attempts to def*****e this music, "***** word jazz is ambitious. [...] The origin of the word is uncertain. The term has ***** applied also ***** noisy proceedings, to loud writing, ***** eccentric and discordant coloring'" (Osgood 10). ***** is loud, ***** is fine, and jazz has influenced much music that ***** come after. However, jazz lives on, which makes it an enduring American legend, and a d*****rned fine listen on a Saturday night.

***** had humble *****s in the "Harlem Renaissance," a creative group in ***** York's ***** district. It was here ***** ********** musicians as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, "Jelly Roll" Morton, Earl "Fatha" Hines, James P. Johnson, Benny Moten, Leon Beiderbecke, and many others ***** become some of the most popular b*****s playing in nightclubs and on records. One ***** the ***** legendary Harlem nightclubs was the Cotton Club, immortalized ***** film, ***** the stage where Duke *****'s band played for countless years. Ellington's sound, beat, and arrangements were ***** novel and unusual, and ***** music changed the way Americans listened and danced. ********** jazz wr*****er ***** *****, "'Jazz, in brief, is a compound of (a) the fox-trot rhythm (a four me*****sure,