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MusicBluesBlues Music’s origin is located in the African-American communities in the Deep Southof the United States of America, near the end of the nineteenth century and at thebeginning of the twentieth century. The songs that are categorized in blues music havemostly a spiritual meaning. At its earliest stage, blues music was originally sung byslaves and later it was sung in the memory of slavery. It is named blues, because theword “blue” is associated by a lot of people to melancholy and depression, somethingthat we can get out of the songs that are located in the blues category. There aretraces of blues music located as back in history as in 1860. After the civil war inAmerica (1861-1865), blues music started expanding across America.In the 1960s, white bands like Rolling Stones, Canned Heat and Fleetwood Macbrought Blues music closer to young white people, something that the black Blues’singers were unable to do. Since then, another type of music has emerged, having its foundation based onblues music. That type of music is Rock music. Many great Rock guitarists and singers such as Eric Clapton andJimmy Hendrix have used Blues music as their starting point, in order of composing and creating music. Someblues singers of the latest generation like Robert Cray combining their music with their amazing techniques,have managed to draw the attention of young listeners. Some of the greatest blues musicians ever, areconsidered to be Eric Clapton, Louis Armstrong, Robert Johnson and W.C Handy.The most popular and yet still known way of composing the blues is using the twelve-bar blues. In melody theblues are recognized by the use of the flattened third, fifth and seventh of the linked major scale. Thesespecialized notes are called the blue or bent notes. To sum up the blues has developed and influenced mostgenres we listen today as a result it is now commonly listened to by everyone although the blues having a tragicorigin and how it ended up in the world today!Rolando Virardi, Michael Kazoulis, 3AJAZZ In Our LivesJazz was born in the city of New Orleans back in the 19 th century, wherepeople started mixing up and slowly they developed the music making a newstyle of it, Jazz. The most important instruments used in jazz are clarinet,piano, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, drums and the modern double bass.Most of the jazz ARTISTS are doing the so now known method improvising.They do not write down the music neither do they follow a sheet of musicthat someone else wrote. They improvise on the stage. The Jazz has a lottypes of music. Jazz is made up of African music and Western Europeanmusic. Then they changed the name Jazz and they decided to call the Jazzmusic New Orleans. The Creoles were from the West Indies and the poorAmericans were from the West side of New Orleans. The music of the poor Americans had blue notes. I meanthat they had sad music. Their music was only with memory and not formal. Then the Creoles and the poorAmericans decided to live together. Then these two types of music the poor American and the Creoles createdthe Jazz music. The Jazz music had the appearance of Ragtime, and Blues which were the two first styles ofJazz music. Also the Jazz music made in a style that it can be dance too. There are a lot types of Jazz musicsome of them are Dixieland, hot Jazz, Swig, Bebop, Cool, Hard Bop, Third Stream, Progressive Swing, Modal,Free Jazz, Bossa Nova, Fusion and Neo-Classical. Also some singers that sing Jazz music are Louis Armstrong,Johnny Hartman, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Sarah Vangham and Nancy Wilson. Some Jazzsongs are What a wonderful World, Don’t know why, Come away with me, L-O-V-E, Feeling Good, Georgia Onmy mind, These are the days, Turn me on, La vie en rose, Sing Sing Sing. A long drink of the Blues, Places andSpaces and other songs.Attempts have been made to define jazz from the perspective of other musical traditions—using the point ofview of European music history or African music for example—but jazz critic Joachim Berendt argues that allsuch attempts are unsatisfactory. One way to get around the definitional problems is to define the term "jazz"more broadly. Berendt defines jazz as a "form of art music which originated in the United States through theconfrontation of blacks with European music".Xenia Menelaou, Andreas Sazos, Alexandros Karamallis, Alexandros Avraam, Pampos Telemachou,Marilena Antoniou, 3BPASCAL Platinum 6th Edition 33