Jazz is a music genre that originated from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz spans a period of over a hundred years, encompassing a very wide range of music, making it difficult to define. Jazz makes heavy use of improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swing note, as well as aspects of European harmony, American popular music, the brass band tradition, and African musical elements such as blue notes and African-American styles such as ragtime. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience to the music as well. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".
Jazz is an album by jazz artist Wallace Roney released in 2007.
Jazz (Kanso series) is a series of 20 paintings made by Nabil Kanso in 1978-79. The subjects of the works are based on the jazz music and the entertainments night life in New York and New Orleans. The paintings are done in oil and acrylic on canvas measuring 224 X 182 cm (88 X 72 inches) each. Their compositions reflect predominant red tonality built with broad brushstrokes. Works from the series were exhibited in Atlanta in 1985.
Leave us, I'm in heaven and I can't believe I'm watching you
When everything you float upon comes down to soon
Jesus hairdo
I mean we all live in America
And if everything you say is true, it's bad TV
And you shine like a star
And you shine like a genius
Fix our hands together
When I surf another wave comes right
Don't wanna cry, know what I need
Oh choose your words
Jesus hairdo
I mean we all live in America
And it's hard to know reality when you don't have a life
And you shine like a star
And you shine like a genius
Sing your song whenever
Can't you see you're catchin' something I need
Get yourself together now you come and going out of phase
And you shine like a star
And you shine like a star
And you shine like a star