Response to a youtube comment about the history of jazz
Jazz is a uniquely American musical form that combines the rhythmic complexity of African traditional music with the harmonic structure of European musical theory. Check the facts yourself...
Traditional African music does not have simultaneous melody lines that are each unique and different and combine to form chords. European music invented the idea of musical chords. No other traditional music had that concept. Parallel melody lines a certain interval apart, but not musical chords. Traditional African music has a rhythmic complexity that is absolutely unknown in classical European music. Jazz is the unique combination of these two musical traditions. And jazz first appeared in New Orleans in the early 1900's
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