Final Reflection
The development of jazz created a new perception of modern jazz to me. Through this blog, I have seen posts that shows how jazz impacts the music today. Things brings to a conclusion that the development of jazz gives more positive impacts rather than negative. We can see that jazz has some sub-genres such as, hip-hop, r&b, soul, funk, etc. which is the most obvious development of jazz. Though some jazz sub-genres may sound very different with jazz, it still has the essence, which we can listen through its chords progression, drumming tempo, etc. Fusion, is a very well developed jazz genre which allows musicians to combine different genres/elements with jazz together. I became more aware that jazz have different impacts today.
Before running this blog, I wasn’t sure whether jazz is still a popular genre today, referring to the pop culture we live in. However, after discovering my way through tumblr, I discovered that jazz highly impacted some of my favorite artists and bands. This shows how some musicians today still relies on jazz as a part of their song-writing. I think that the development of jazz through fusion lacks the tradition of the music style, because when hearing artists today playing/singing jazz influenced music style, it is quite hard to grasp the jazz genre. However, I think it is still easy to catch the essence of jazz if the song/piece is influenced by the genre. I also think that this is what makes jazz very influential to the music world today, because though some genres like hip-hop may sound very different to what traditional jazz sounds like, it still has the very essence of jazz. I wouldn’t say that these changes are bad, because I think it should keep growing since society is growing too. But, we still need to maintain traditional jazz as part of the changes because without it, the essence of jazz in these sub-genres are gone.
From this assignment I have not only learned about how jazz have changed through the years, but I have also discovered jazz itself (what it sounds like, how you play it, bands, etc). It furthers my understanding about traditional jazz while also exploring the changes it is making.
