Jazz Instruments

Jazz was created off of church music so it mainly used all the instruments they used, the main ones that brought life to jazz music were the trumpet, saxaphone, trambone, drums double bass and the clarinet. the piano wasnt added on to jazz until later when jazz was making its way through the north of the United States.

The saxophone is the musical instrument that creates the vibe to jazz music, many people are amazed on the sounds that a saxophone can make. The saxophone was used in jazz for the first time not by individual jazz musicians but by bands, the saxophone added the sound of intimacy and thats why many older people blamed jazz and said it was a bad inlfuence on young adults. The drums added a more fatser beat to jazz music that made people want to get up and dance, it gave jazz that fast vibe and thats another reason why young adults liked jazz so much because it was something different. it wasnt just the same old slow church songs, it was was something that they related to and that they could dance to.
When the piano was included to jazz music it changed the sound of it from classical jazz to a more soothing sound that later became known as "swing". Ray Charles was the main jazz musician to make the piano famous and later on many would follow.
The trumpet was always a part of jazz ever since the start of it and is a main factor to the development of jazz through the years because without the trumpet jazz is just not the same.
Putting all of these instruments together and playing them well will create an amzing sound that is called jazz. These instruments are still a big part of todays music, they are used in different genres of music to create different sounds needed for a song. Some artist still include jazz in some of their music, "gold digger" is a song that was released in 2007, this song was based on a song by Ray Charles called "I got a woman" and it just goes to show that jazz can still move todays young audience with the same instruments of a century ago.