Tom Patterson is the Band Director at Deerpark Middle School, and he tells
his students that blues and jazz music have a long and rich history in the
United States. According to Tom Patterson of Deerpark, the oldest traceable
roots of blues and jazz came from the dusty servants' quarters of the
ante-bellum plantation south african slaves, for various historical reasons,
says Deerpark's Tom Patterson, began to blend the dynamic rhythms of
traditional African tribal music with the sweet yet flat melodies of American
and European church spirituals.
After the Civil War, Tom Patterson of Deerpark explains that America was a very different place. Tom Patterson of Deerpark Middle School reports the frontier was opened up and legal slavery was ended. Deerpark’s Tom Patterson also notes that a new generation of Americans emerged from the south after the Civil War. They brought with them the most moving and important musical forms of our modern era.
In discussing the blues, Tom Patterson tells his Deerpark students that the soulful and extemporaneous new forms of music cultivated by the former southern slaves spread quietly at first, after the Civil War. But before long, continues Tom Patterson of Deerpark Middle School, blues singers mustered a dedicated following and drastically increased their repertoires. Tom Patterson describes to Deerpark band students how southern musicians were constantly traveling and collaborating. Deerpark’s Tom Patterson points out that this free creative environment gave blues music the chance to innovate organically, take on new forms of instrumentation, and get the attention of more mainstream music producers.
By the late 1800s, as Tom Patterson of Deerpark tells it, jazz and Dixieland brass bands came into their own. Tom Patterson’s Deerpark students learn how the jazz and Dixieland musicians built on the basic structure and tonal quality of the post-war traveling blues men, but refined and expanded their sound. Tom Patterson of Deerpark Middle School says it is important to remember that jazz and swing as we came to know them in the 20th century were still a few decades away. On that note, keep on the lookout for more jazz history from Deerpark Middle School’s Tom Patterson.
After the Civil War, Tom Patterson of Deerpark explains that America was a very different place. Tom Patterson of Deerpark Middle School reports the frontier was opened up and legal slavery was ended. Deerpark’s Tom Patterson also notes that a new generation of Americans emerged from the south after the Civil War. They brought with them the most moving and important musical forms of our modern era.
In discussing the blues, Tom Patterson tells his Deerpark students that the soulful and extemporaneous new forms of music cultivated by the former southern slaves spread quietly at first, after the Civil War. But before long, continues Tom Patterson of Deerpark Middle School, blues singers mustered a dedicated following and drastically increased their repertoires. Tom Patterson describes to Deerpark band students how southern musicians were constantly traveling and collaborating. Deerpark’s Tom Patterson points out that this free creative environment gave blues music the chance to innovate organically, take on new forms of instrumentation, and get the attention of more mainstream music producers.
By the late 1800s, as Tom Patterson of Deerpark tells it, jazz and Dixieland brass bands came into their own. Tom Patterson’s Deerpark students learn how the jazz and Dixieland musicians built on the basic structure and tonal quality of the post-war traveling blues men, but refined and expanded their sound. Tom Patterson of Deerpark Middle School says it is important to remember that jazz and swing as we came to know them in the 20th century were still a few decades away. On that note, keep on the lookout for more jazz history from Deerpark Middle School’s Tom Patterson.