their musical qualities. However, other influences in the early Jazz music’s also came from slaves who had learned the harmony of church hymns and were beginning to use this same theory in their own music.

During the early 19th century, many black musicians had begun to master how to play instruments like the violin which in the past had been a European thing. When musicians started to use this new fond understanding of new instruments to satirize European musical styles, they started to see incredible growth within the Americas and the Caribbean, as more cultures tapped into a unique style of music.

This was in the lead up to the beginning of the Afro-Latin progress from what it was to what is referred to as “New Orleans Jazz” and thiswas when rhythm started to come into play for many musicians. When drumming was outlawed for slaves, it was merely replaced by stomping and clapping instead.

After the Civil War, many African Americans started to play military drums and in time this started to create a whole new breed of this music – creating a unique African flair to the 19th century drum music. Even when you listen to jazz music today, it’s very easy to see the African inspired rhythm patterns within, due to the easier adaptation than European rhythms.

Jazz has, for many years, been considered quite a new form of music by some people but with more than two hundred years of history out there about jazz music, it’s incredible to see the various changes that have