The videos playing in the class were useful to better understand the jazz music: by going over Billy Taylor’s What Is Jazz, I realized the composition of a jazz band and the different role of the instruments, how did each of them sound like; by listening to various style of jazz music, I started to sense the differences in rhythm, melody and even mood between different period jazz music: New Orleans, Bebop,
The videos playing in the class were useful to better understand the jazz music: by going over Billy Taylor’s What Is Jazz, I realized the composition of a jazz band and the different role of the instruments, how did each of them sound like; by listening to various style of jazz music, I started to sense the differences in rhythm, melody and even mood between different period jazz music: New Orleans, Bebop,