What is the jazz harp?

Jazz Harp is a music played by harpists in a jazz genre. Traditionally, people considered harp primarily a classic tool, although it is also popular as a folk instrument. However, some harpists believed that the percussion nature of the harp lent itself to spread to other genres.

Jazz Harp got his first real start with the effort of Harpist Casper Reardon at the age of 30. Reardon, known as the "Swing Harfist", was originally classically trained and served with organizations such as Cincinnati Conservatory and Philadelphia Orchestra. But when some of Reardon's students exposed him, he loved him, and thought the harp was able to play in a jazz style. He developed his own way of playing jazz in Harp and across the peak of the rocking era created a way for other jazz harpists and played with important jazz musicians like Jack Teagarden.

Reardon's efforts allowed other harpists to question Notion that the harp was limited to classical music, especially Adele Girard. In the 1960s they found another haRfists, such as Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, ways to further expand the jazz harp and push the boundaries of jazz -related genres such as bebop. The recordings of these artists remain some of the best examples of excellence while playing a jazz harp.

One of the main changes of jazz harpists brought harp playing was a reinforcement of the harp. Modern jazz harpists use one of two types of harp to play. The first is acoustic-electrical harp. These harp are similar to regular harp, but can be reinforced by electric sensors if necessary. The second type of harp used to play jazz is fully electric harp. These harp are the main divert from ordinary harp in that they do not have a sound plate, and therefore must be reinforced to make sounds loud enough to hear the audience well.

The amplification of the harp was important to jazz harpists for two reasons. It allowed it firstJazz harpists break the volume of barriers of acoustic instruments to face and compete often with explosive volumes of fully jazz ensembles. Second, it gave jazz harpists the ability to change and distort the sounds they made with the harp, like electric guitars. With this new sound palette, jazz harpists found a completely different way to solo and support other players.

In acoustically, the harp has a clear, almost bell tone often described as essential. In electric playing for jazz, however, the sound of the harp is almost comparable to the sound of a steel drum, although the fineness of the sound of the harp is strangely preserved. It often takes some time to adapt to this dramatic, almost Calypso taste, but people often fall in love with a new sound as soon as they are familiar with it.

One of the limitation of the jazz harp of Jeto that there are relatively few harpists compared to players, such as violins, because orchestras generally use only one or two harpists at most. Most school schools concentrate on KLASic music and technique, because there is much more demand for this style of playing harp. Subsequently, there are even fewer harpists who excel in the jazz genre.