African Amercian Music: Jazz

Hiding in the musical improvisation of the Jazz music, there is some things that could be related with the African American people. Improvisation is, in the most simple meaning, improve something. But, what we can set as improve? When somebody has troubles and is in a bad situation he, or she, is forced to find as fast as he can a solution to his problem. I really belive that this is the easy way to think about the meaning of improve.

When you improve, you know your limits and your resources. You know what you can do, and what you can't do. You can imagine what thing you want to do roughly and find a way to do it. Don't care how many problems do you have, you are going to find the way to do the thing you want to do. That is the truly essence of improvise.

Over the years, the African American People were in the conditions to improvise. All the dificulties of segregation and the racism forced them to find diferent ways and solutions to their problems in really limited conditions.

Now, when you think in jazz as way of improvement, you migth see that there is a lot of cultural stuff that makes the African American people more able than other cultures to improve.