Thank you for uploading this! FINALLY, a jazz documentary narrated by a black American. I'm fed up with the British and French offerings. Billie Taylor's voice, talent, and his knowledge are much appreciated.
I love to learn more and also it hurts me to see the racism and slavery that took place in this country but I admire so much the true resilience and will to keep going that the African-American people can only truly understand. No one can begin to know the hurt and pain they endured. I apologize on behalf of my country. But I thank God for those who had paved the way for freedom and what a wonderful documentary this is I will show my kids. Thank you for this wonderful music and also teaching the world that you can stand up again after hurt and pain teaching everyone that music can heal you and remind you how strong you are and that better days are ahead. ❤️it’s so important to learn the history behind all the music
i wonder how the world would be like without jazz , and the blues, African Americans contributed so much to America, there is so much information on this video
Taz-on-the-loose Yusef "Artists Created" what came to be called: Jazz, Blues, Funk, R & B - The creations of artists comes from their mind and what they speak in their art of: visual, experiences, interpretations if others experiences, in that elements direct relationship to their senses - visual, emotional, feeling, seeing, tasting, touching, etc. The expression of these are relative to their culture and often heritage - that being the case - all the remaining is "How it's expressed" There would be no sunject of Jazz without the "response to its expression" If you followed this comment in understanding - you now will understand - "It is all about the Creative" expression and response - It takes both to be complete - thus - it is without a complete understanding to "leave out the audience and their response" in understanding the reality of the whole. Exactly as the narrator expressed in the various styles, based on physical location. Take the ego mind out of the concept and replace with "an artist's understanding with their soul-mind" ...and that's when the racial weight of social ideas is left. It about the Soul - and energy is not black or white.
Dr. Billy Taylor summed up the early development of jazz in an entertaining and comprehensive way. His own piano examples with the trio are also great to hear and complement the story.
Django Reinhardt - Duke loved Django, an era I truly wish I could travel to... The directions of his influence is overwhelming when realized. ...ask Willie Nelson
Great documentary, I love jazz music. I'll come back to New Orleans again in the future to listen to jazz music only. Bourbon street waits for me please.
This video showed a quick clip of James Reese Europe, but never mentioned his name. He held the first Jazz concert ever with all Black Musicians at Carnegie Hall in 1912. James Reese Europe was a Giant of Jazz whos shoulders all others have stood upon, Please look him up and his 369th Harlem Hell Fighters Band.
The swing, rhythm, and perhaps melodies are largely from the black community in the US. The harmonies of jazz and modern pop are an evolution of European classical music. I think it's a beautiful marriage. Both benefited from the partnering.
It's always a shame when people come out with stuff like this. I'm fairly certain many of the jazz pioneers were also educated in the western musical tradition. I know that Scott Joplin and Louis Armstrong were. There's no denying the huge contribution that black people have made to music, but your comment only shows your ignorance. Perhaps you should broaden your horizons.
They hated jazz just the way they now hates hip hop. White Americans connected jazz with drugs and now they connect hip hop with drugs. My respect and love for African Americans are huge.
awesome video this video make me appreciate music so much of the past and the history of it. besides racism and oppression that blacks went through at that time they had the best most beautiful gorgeous music we can imagine of jazz blues early r&b etc... meaningful lyrics they play real instruments instead relying on a computer no auto tune no profanity. grandma's great grandma's and Grandparents were so fortunate in the music scene they had the best of the best music of all time history man besides the young people of today's generation we barley got anybody that really stands out a few exceptions of course but not many like decades ago.
I still find this story over simplified and I don’t mean that as a pejorative. Jazz is so unbelievably unorthodox and paradigm shifting that it couldn’t be the work of one man or one music scene. I wish there was a way to have a video of the thousands of individual moments in quiet isolation that a man set his fingers down on the keys and played a diminished 6th or a dominant 13th and slowly that chaotic sound formed itself into a new ordered universe of sound. The fact that jazz came to be at all is truly remarkable thing. So beautiful. So weird. So not Bach.
@@hithere2426 Bach is very calculated and mathematical, jazz is more free form and improvisational, modal music that takes the rules of music and bends and breaks them to create something entirely new and outside of the box of traditional forms of music
The banjo configuration was also found in China, Mesopotamia, and many other civilizations other than Africa. Drums of course can be found in Egypt and places that predate African use. Most of the other instruments used in jazz were developed or invented in Europe - sax, clarinet, violin, piano - as well as the brass trumpets (mentioned in the bible's Old Testament), trombone (which started out as a non-slide horn), cymbals (also mentioned in the bible). The song structure which we eventually called jazz plus the use of chords, as well as instrument interplay was developed in Europe, not Africa. Right now one can hear the primitive music still played in Africa - there are virtually no native recordings that sound anything like ragtime, 1920s jazz, 1930s swing or 1940s bop. Black culture did bring a soul to jazz but it hardly invented it.
Glad that I watched this, I wanted to learn a little bit about jazz as I like most types of music. Unfortunately I have come to the conclusion that I don’t like jazz at all.
May I respectfully ask the author of this valuable piece of Jazz History if there's a way to increase the definition of the images for clearer pictures? I like to increase the size but it turns to a blur. 720 or 1080 works well.-
+Anton Moiseenko did you ever get the link to part 2? I am looking for it and can't seem to find it. Please email me if you have it. fourmanc@masonohioschools.comThanks in advance
John Parker. the Irish famine occurred in 1847. did you know that it was the young Turkish Sultan who sent in ships filled with grains from his storage in Poland and Turkey. He also convinced the Morocco ruler to come to Irelands assistance.
Hard to hear and understand what the narrator is saying. I tried to catch and google a couple musicians' names, but couldn't because the narrator's voice is weak, muffling, and difficult to understand with music playing in the background. Also, where can I watch part 2 of this video? I'm not able to find it on youtube.
Search for Azerbaijani Jazz, your ears will thank you. The brilliant Vagif Mustafazade fused Azerbaijani mugham (complex Azeri folk music) with Africcan American jazz in the 60s and it's an undiscovered gem!
Steve Cournane "Ragtime is part of the chronological evolution of jazz." Just as blues is part of the chronological evolution of rock and roll, if I understand right what you're try to say. But that misses the point of what I was trying to say. The quote "Original Introducer to the Stage of the Now Popular 'Rag Time'" is from 1896. Countless musicians who encountered "ragtime" music during more than two decades, before 1896 to after 1915, were not encountering jazz when they encountered it, which is why Elizabeth Cotten and David Miller e.g. didn't play jazz when they played a "rag." Musicians in New Orleans were collectively improvising (the most important characteristic of early jazz) on ragtime pieces as of about 1905, in a way that developed further and as of about 1913 or 1914 became known as "jazz," and only became popular nationally from 1916 on. Saying more than two decades of ragtime were a "jazz style" is even more chronologically off than saying the first decade-plus of soul music should be considered a subcategory of '70s-style "disco."
I really miss your point, there is nothing chronologically off, are you trying to say that ragtime came after jazz? I think not, so the chronology is correct. If you are trying to say that Ragtime had nothing to do with jazz that would be more understandable and in some ways logical, but then you go on to say that musicians in New Orleans were improvising collectively over rags. Thankyou for that, that is exactly why we call rag a part of the evolution of jazz. It is a very important part and along with Africa and the blues, is like the third part of the chain of a magical evolution that leads into syncopation (as Baby Dodds called it) or a more group concept of improvising , jass perhaps, or rag jazz as I have even read sometimes. I put the 1917 ODJB recordings in that bag. Many others would call that sacrilege. I think modern jazz started later and exactly where is hard to say, maybe the 1921 ODJB recording of St Louis Blues. King Olivers's recordings certainly upped the ante somewhat and lead to a more individual concept of improvising (what i would call true jazz), and then onwards into the swing era, bebop, etc. etc. It may be that you define evolution differently to myself and Billie Taylor. You see I even put John Phillip Sousa ( the march composer before ragtime) into that chain of evolution. All music for me is a fusion process, like language. It may not be so for you, therefore it would be impossible to resolve this discussion easily. take care ,
Steve Cournane No one is disputing that jazz had roots in ragtime. Ragtime was earlier than jazz. Because countless musicians who encountered "ragtime" music during more than two decades, before 1896 to after 1915, were not encountering jazz when they encountered it (which is why Elizabeth Cotten and David Miller e.g. didn't play jazz when they played a "rag"), it is misleading for the show to say ragtime is a "jazz style." As an analogy to that, Sam Cooke e.g. was a soul singer and he was not a singer of the later "disco" music. If a show said soul music was a type of disco music, that would be misleading in the same way (all early soul music was not disco music; all early ragtime was not jazz music).
Steve Cournane Ragtime was so popular in the nation generally during the years surrounding about 1903 that countless folk musicians were inspired to play relatively simple pieces that folk musicians routinely called rags, such as David Miller's "Cannon Ball Rag," John Hurt's "Salty Dog," Elizabeth Cotten's "Wilson Rag," Sylvester Weaver's "Guitar Rag," William Moore's "Ragtime Millionaire," and Charlie Patton's "Hang It On The Wall." These generally had basic approaches to chord progressions that were far more similar to published rags than to blues, and had the influence of ragtime in playing approaches. Blues only became a fad among folk musicians (the first people it became a fad among) in about 1909 or 1910, and many folk musicians learned to play rags before they had ever heard of "blues music," e.g. Hurt was playing for dances in about 1905 at about age 13. I have heard Ossman. I agree with Ed Berlin's findings that "ragtime songs" with vocals were considered ragtime. When folk musicians played a blues they were "country blues" musicians (so-called "country blues" is a concept popularized about six decades into the history of folk blues to describe folk blues, e.g. the folk blues by Furry Lewis and Rabbit Brown who lived in cities). And when they played a rag a few minutes later, they were folk ragtime musicians.
Saying the swing sound came from mixing ragtime with blues is misleading. Mississippi John Hurt was mixing ragtime with blues to create his non-swing non-jazz in about 1912. The swing sound arose about 1929-1931, and blues influence had been very important in jazz long before that (the first publication of a 12-bar "Blues" was in New Orleans in 1908).
This video is incorrect. The way that it is structured makes it seem like Ragtime was founded before the blues which is inaccurate.Blues gave birth their birth after 1870's
