Introduction
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In the early decades of the 20th century jazz was the name that was given to music played by African Americans. It was a kind of folk music that black people played for entertainment. Today jazz is performed all over the world and it has also influenced other kinds of music.
The features of jazz are its sound and rhythms. Jazz is improvised music that shows strong emotions and feelings. Typical jazz instruments are the trumpet, trombone , saxophone and clarinet.
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Words
- decade = a period of ten years
- entertainment = you perform music or a play that people listen to or watch
- feature= characteristic, quality
- folk music = music that has been played by normal people for a long time
- improvise = if you don’t prepare anything, you just invent musical sounds
- influence = to have an effect on
- perform = to do something to entertain people; to act a play or play music
- rhythm = beat
- trombone = a metal instrument that you play by blowing into it and you pull a part of it in and out to change the notes