Jazz was created in the 1800\u2019s in southern African-American communities, due to blues and ragtime. In 1963 Hancock joined up with Miles Davis\u2019 second great quintet where they refine the role of rhythm section. The first ever event held for International Jazz Day was in 2012. Many people consider Jazz as \u201cAmerica\u2019s classical music.\u201d The birth place of Jazz is Congo Square in New Orleans where in 1819 slaves would play \u201cragtime\u201d on Sundays when they didn\u2019t have work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sounds of Jazz during 1819 consisted of Caribbean music from the West Indies, beats from Africa, and melodies of southern churches. The music called the \u201cBlues\u201d came from spiritual churches and were played with brass instruments. In the 1890\u2019s, ragtime and the blues were combined to create jazz. American bandleader Buddy Bolden is considered to be the father of Jazz. During the first world war, soldiers were introduced to jazz music. Many people believe that jazz symbolizes peace and unity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jazz is a combination of different music. National Jazz Day celebrates those who play jazz and lift others spirits in hard times. Jazz should be as popular as it was back then, due to the history it holds and how it was created. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Citations: npr.org un.org nationaltoday.org <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Caleb Shaulis International Jazz Day is meant to celebrate all that jazz symbolizes. Jazz…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3.jpeg\")
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