Music Jazz

MUSIC JAZZ

            Jazz is a genre of popular music that originated in African-American communities of New Orlens, Unites State, in 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. According to Travis Jackson says jazz is music that includes qualities such as swinging, improvising, group interaction, develoing an individual voice and being open to different musical possibilities (Sania,2018).
           As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to many distinctive styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. In the 1930s, heavily arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz, a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisational style and Gypsy jazz (a style that emphasized musette waltzes) were the prominent styles. Bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular music toward a more challenging “musician’s music” which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed in the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, linear melodic lines.
Modal jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock music’s rhythms, electric instruments, and highly improved stage sound. In the early 1980s, a commercial form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful, garnering significant radio airplay. Other styles and genres abound in the 2000s, such as Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz.
In Indonesia, jazz music first entered in the era of the 1930s. At that time the flow of jazz music dipopuelrkan by musicians from the Philippines musicians. The jazz music that Filipino immigrants brought was first played in Jakarta alone. With the characteristics of the instrument trumpet and saxophone, jazz music was famous in the city of Jakarta at that time. Philippine jazz musicians are playing many jazz rhythm songs like latin and boleros in hotels in Jakarta. They also play their jazz tracks in other cities such as Bandung and Surabaya that make jazz start to be known throughout Indonesia. It became a historical fact of early jazz music in Indonesia.
In the 1980s, the development of Indonesian jazz became more intense with the emergence of musicians and talented Indonesian jazz singers such as Ireng Maulana, Benny Likumahuwa, Oele Pattiselano or Elfa Secioria. They are skilled in a variety of jazz instruments ranging from guitar, piano, bass, trombone, violin, saxophone or vocals.

        The popularity of jazz makes this music genre more popular and interesting among young Indonesian musicians. Modern music era in the early modern, jazz music increasingly transformed with other music genres. There are many popular jazz musicians and singers that combine with genres and other types of music. Dewa Budjana, Andien, Tompi, Syaharani until the band Maliq & D'Essentials are examples of non-mainstream jazz musicians.
In the era of the 2000s until now jazz music began to be widely known with famous musicians are certainly very familiar in the ears of music lovers in Indonesia, the band The Groove, Maliq & D'Essentials, Syaharani, Dewa Budjana, Andien, Tompi, Ecoutez, until now on the rise is Sincere which video is much enjoyed and downloaded by music lovers in cyberspace.
Musician Fariz RM for example, able to popularize jazz music with the new age genre which is a combination of jazz and Latin pop music. In 1983, Fariz joined Iwan Madjid and Darwin B Rachman created the music group. They are then released an album titled Produk Hijau. And then Tulus, singer in category jazz. He is singing from childhood, Tulus began to be know when he often san at jazz club community events and campuses in the city of Bandung. During his lecture he once joined Sikuai Band. At the performance of Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2013 in Jakarta. At the event, Tulus also collaborated with Raisa, where they sang Teman Hidup and A Whole New World.
Also in this modern era so many jazz music festivals held in Indonesia both national and international level. Example Jazz Music Festival, usefulness of this jazz music festival is as a gathering event between jazz musicians with fellow musicians of other jazz music, and also as a means of discussion of knowledge and ability in terms of music in the type of jazz genre itself.