JAZZ instruments?

Question

I want to learn to play one

Answer 1

clarinet, piano, trumpet, read more about Jazz.


As a musical language of communication, jazz is the first indigenous American style to affect music in the rest of the World. From the beat of ragtime syncopation and driving brass bands to soaring gospel choirs mixed with field hollers and the deep down growl of the blues, jazz's many roots are celebrated almost everywhere in the United.
The city of New Orleans features prominently in early development of jazz. A port city with doors to the spicy sounds of the Caribbean and Mexico and large, well-stablished black population, the Crescent City was ripe for the developmentof new music at the turn of the century. Brass bands marched in numerous parades and played to comfort families during funerals. Also, numerous society dances required skilled musical ensembles. New Orleans was home to great early clarinetists Johnny Dodds, Jimmy Noone and Sidney Bechet. One of the first great cornetist, Joe "King" Oliver and his leading student and future star, Louis Armstrong hailed from New Orleans along with other influential musicians including Jelly Roll Morton.
Chicago became the focal point for jazz in the early 1920s when New Orleans musicians found their way north after clubs in the Storyville area of New Orleans were closed. Jazz began to gain wider notice as recordings made in the Windy City sold throughout America. Chicago was a magnet for musicians in the Mid-West. Famous musicians who received acclaim for their work in Chicago were Earl Hines, Johnny Dodds, Louis Armstrong and King
New York City contributed to the richness of jazz in many ways. The first piano style to be incorporated into jazz was stride which developed from ragtime and was popular in New York. The city was also the center of the music publishing business. Also in New York, James Reese Europe experimented with a style of jazz that involved large orchestras. Many of his early recordings would be considered ragtime, though his later recordings in 1919 clearly show jazz improvisation. In the 1920s, New York City had two pioneering orchestras that would eventually greatly affect jazz history. Fletcher Henderson put together a band that first appeared at the Cotton Club in New York in 1923. Henderson's unit featured future jazz stars Coleman Hawkins and Don Redman but it wasn't until Henderson brought Louis Armstrong from Chicago to play with his group that the band began to develop into a full-fledged jazz group which would help to usher in the swing era.
During the twenties and thirties there were many groups known as Territory Bands playing jazz in smaller United States cities. In the late twenties, Kansas City's Bennie Moten Band acquired members of Walter Page's Blue Devils which were formed in Oklahoma City. This group later evolved into the Count Basie Orchestra. Some other cities with burgeoning jazz scenes were St. Louis, Memphis and Detroit.
As jazz evolved, highly arranged dance music became the norm. When white musicians like Benny Goodman added black arrangements for their scores, jazz began to move into the Swing or Big Band period. Large black and white jazz bands toured the United States filling the radio airwaves with swing, a term which became synonymous with jazz. Great African American bands during the swing era were Jimmy Lunceford, Chick Webb, Mills Blue Rhythm and Andy Kirk's Clouds of Joy. It was also a time when vocalists came to the forefront led by such favorites Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Fats Waller.

Answer 2

The trumpet is an instrument of war, no matter how loud a group of peoples war cry is a trumpet can play louder than that, so a commander would play an order sound and everyone would hear it, it was like this until about the Civil war when African american slaves met at congo square and used African drums and then became rag time and jazz history comes and goes until the trumpet became the ideal jazz instrument in a big 4 New orleans style jazz group. No it was not ment to be a jazz instrument at first it was a war instrument, it was loud. it became a solo instrument because it is a high end alto pitch and played the melody, thus a solo. because valves were hard before in war, so he made it with valves for more playing ability.

Answer 3

As someone said earlier, it really is best to learn the clarinet before you learn the saxophone, but you might not want to go in that direction at all. You could play trumpet, which is the main jazz instrument along with the alto sax. Or you could learn trombone, the other common jazz brass instrument. But jazz also uses a lot of more popular instruments such as piano, guitar, bass, and drumsets. You have a lot of options -- just pick the one that appeals most to you.

Answer 4

Almost any instrument has been featured in some point in time in a jazz group. It all depends on what you feel like doing. Wanna go brass? Try trumpet or trombone. Woodwind? If you're ever going to think of doubling on clarinet and sax, learn clarinet first. But if you don't want to double, just go with alto sax, tenor sax or bari sax. Flutes have also been used on special occasions. Then there's percussion, of which there are two main types: mallet percussion (which would be the vibraphone) or what most people think of when they say "percussion"- drum set. My advice would be to see if you could talk to a local band director and get help testing out different instruments to see which one you like the best.

Answer 5

Vibraphone...wonderful for jazz, listen to Lionel Hampton's interpretation of Stardust..wicked man

Answer 6

Wouldnt call it exactly Jazzy (although you can play some pretty good jazz tunes on it) but the Clarinet is THE best instrument to play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Answer 7

I started on clarinet and then found my love: the trumpet.....there seem to be more solos for trumpets and saxes in jazz, if that's what you're looking for.

Answer 8

It's best to learn the clarinet first and then the saxophone.

Answer 9

Good double bass players are always in demand as are drummers.

Answer 10

Well done, how very good for you,
Have you decided which one yet, I like the xylophone