Dixieland Jazz -The Beggining
Jazz music’s origins are mainly related to the US city of New Orleans -this is when for the first time jazz musicians started performing and using the word Dixie (that has been used for the southeastern part of the US) the first jazz music was referred to as Dixieland Jazz or New Orleans Jazz.
At first the jazz music was developed by majorly the African Americans who first started performing. Before settling as a distinctive genre, the jazz music performances significantly varied. For example there was not a set sequence in the music, it consisted of improvisations and the musicians themselves primarily experimented with the sounds they were creating. The streets of New Orleans became the place where the first Jazz rhythms were born and where the first innovative musicians were making the path for the future music genre. Typically, several march groups started playing on the streets and thus popularized the overall primary jazz trends. Later, musicians like Armstrong influenced the jazz music so much that they established certain manners to be followed in the performance, in the composition of the band, in the music itself.
However, the fist jazz performers were only making a scratch for the genre. The people in New Orleans started to feel the music as a distinctive genre, streets were crowded every time there was performance by a band and slowly and gradually, the admirers and the posters on the walls were getting more and more. This is when the fist million copies sold by a jazz group came -in the 20s of the 20th century and since then the genre developed rapidly so nowadays it is a distinctive music culture with millions of fans. And the Dixieland jazz in New Orleans remained the credible and the future of that music genre, still inspiring and giving contribution to the young and rising performers.
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