JAZZ STYLES IN BRIEF
BLUES AND RAGTIME: Blues were |] short twelve-bar themes based on minor or sad sounding chords. The singers often made up the words as they went along. Ragtime developed along with the blues, and at first was rough and clumsy, but with a strong rhythmic drive. BOOGIE: A merging of the blues with ragtime. The blues theme was taken by the right hand and the left hand doubled the tempo, playing eight to | the bar instead of the usual four to give it a rhythmic drive. DIXIE: Grew out of boogie as played by New Orleans Negro marching bands, The beat was given by drums and tuba and the other instruments moved around it. The second and fourth beats became emphasised as this was the natural time for people to clap to it. Flourished in Dixie. SWING (arranged jazz): White man’s interpretation and arrangement of existing jazz forms, with the saxophone added. By the ‘Thirties swing was more subtle with a more even beat. It swung lightly from bar to bar. BOP: Started around 1945 and exploited harmonic aspects of jazz with the driving beat subordinated to more complicated rhythmic patterns. PROGRESSIVE: This is still developing, especially harmonically. Tends to be more intellectual than emotional.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 7
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208JAZZ STYLES IN BRIEF New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 7
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