The History Of Jazz The first jazz was played in the early 20th century. The work chants and folk music of black Americans are among the sources of jazz, which reflects the rhythms and expressions of West African song. Ragtime, an Afro-American music that first appeared in the 1890s, was composed for the piano, and each rag is a composition with several themes. The leading ragtime composer was Scott Joplin. The first improvising jazz musician …showed first 75 words of 634 total…

…showed last 75 words of 634 total…many countries were inspired to draw on their individual musical heritages to create new kinds of jazz. The most popular result of this trend to variety has been fusion music, which joins jazz, rock, and Latin-American rhythms. The concert on Wednesday night was pretty monotonous, my passion is for dance music and hard ,uplifting beats,such as rap, rock, and house. I did enter the auditorium with an open mind, but jazz did not click.