Jazz can be different.
Jazz is a live music that is constantly in motion and development. For every mood, for every style of behavior – its own jazz.
Jazz has always supported me. For example, in a state of deep disappointment, some kind of failure, I can not listen to anything but lyrical modern jazz performed by Keiko Matsui. A kind of mixture of modern jazz and classical music. It’s not like this music slaps my cheeks and says, “Shake it up! All OK!” This music simply supports… I would even say it “absorbs” a lot of negative emotions and feelings.
Jazz enhances the pleasant sensations of life. In a state of especially heated falling in love or a feeling of love for a certain female person, one wants to listen again and again to the music of the composer Henri Manchini, which in common people can be called “Easy-Listening”. By the way, it was he who “wrote the soundtrack” to the cartoon “Pink Panther”. And when I feel cheerful, my mood is excellent, then the best addition to the situation is the Acid Jazz direction. It’s literally modern music, only in a very jazzy rhythm. Almost always without words. Artists include Sound Assembly, LTJ Bukem, Azymuth. In more festive moments, the German band “De Phazz” is a real find! It’s even difficult to single out a style, a direction here… Rather, it’s a combination of jazz, acid jazz, electronic music, reggae. But one thing is for sure – this is absolutely unusual music. This is multicolored music. This is the music of a fun festival. Her songs are fireworks.
Jazz is a great place to unwind. In moments of fatigue, “Smooth Jazz”, as they say, is in a hurry to help. Relaxation comes instantly, from the first seconds of this melodic and smooth music. True, in order to keep calm, it is worth listening to at least a few songs. But listening to them is a pleasure, and what kind of person likes to deny himself pleasure
Jazz is played by real good musicians and they play masterfully!
Jazz is, above all, freedom. This is freedom, which implies personal self-expression. It allows you to play even one note exactly the way you want to play it; this is the magic that is inherent in the free genre. There is the theater of improvisation, there is the art of improvisational painting, and jazz is improvisation in music. In addition, this is a huge number of directions, among which you can choose your favorite artists, genres, styles. So it’s endless beauty. Improvisation is the great collective aesthetic of jazz, creating order in movement. This is another great feature of the jazz style: it still raises questions about order and chaos, structure and chance to this day. But the improvisation of jazz musicians remains something incomprehensible for many listeners, despite the fact that it is improvisation that underlies human communication. After all, no one goes out for a couple of beers with a friend, having previously written a script for friendly chatter.
Reasons to listen to jazz these days
This is very intellectual music. As far as I remember, there was a study on the influence of classical, jazz music and other genres on the body of plants, and after classical music, jazz is in second place in terms of beneficial effects. First of all, this is very beautiful music, if it is also good for health, then why not.
Why does jazz improve mood? Because this music itself – at its best – is bold, rich and inexhaustibly inventive.
Jazz is able to express any human momentary emotions. This is what distinguishes it from academic music for me. Academics don’t care about my feelings, they impose theirs on me. I am instructed to go through a certain emotional scenario (as Cage said about Beethoven’s symphonies: he upsets the listener in the first half of the work, calms the second, eventually leading to its original state). In the classics, I am invited to empathize with the composer, jazz empathizes with me. Moreover, it empathizes with the “here and now”, jazz does not pretend to life outside of time and space, and this is precisely the super-task of the classical work – “to become immortal”.
In jazz, one cannot abstract from the passage of time; on the contrary, it sticks out, pushes to the fore (again, unlike the classics, where, ideally, the listener should be completely immersed in the music and forget that there is something besides it). For me, this is the rhythm of life: I have been given a fairly short (and it is not known how short) period, and I want to feel every second of it.
In my opinion, in the acceptance of jazz, the love for it is the same motivation as in the love for modernism in literature, painting, theater. The destruction of the “ivory tower” created by classical art. Recognition that a person lives in the world and is not eternal.
Which jazz artist to listen to
For those who are starting to learn jazz, these must be the luminaries of jazz. First of all, the music of Dixieland, the music of the golden age of jazz (30s of the twentieth century): Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Lester Young. Next bebop era: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie. A huge number of names arise from the second half of the twentieth century.
All modern jazz musicians are unique. In fact, unique jazz projects are happening all over the world right now. Japanese jazz is incredibly interesting, Polish and French jazz are also interesting for learning. There are so many of them: as countries, as people all over the world. Of course, there are a limited number of geniuses, but it is advisable to be interested in this, and each next door will show you a new and new discovery.
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Jazz is an improvisational and experimental music form. It is a type of music that can be easily appreciated by the general public. Jazz has a unique sound that resonates with people and brings them joy.
People love jazz because it offers a way to express themselves through music and it allows them to experience new things in their life.