THE JAZZ

The jazz is one of the most popular musical genre in the world.
It was born in the United States, during the trade of the black slave in the 1900s. The origin of the jazz are the “worksongs”, which the slaves sang during there hard works. Another genre before the jazz are the spiritual. They were religious songs, which the black slaves singe during the secret religious function. But during those decades the jazz was more different than now: the musicians jazz play with different instruments and they don’t sing. 
Typical instruments in a jazz band are: the saxophone, the trumpet, the bass, and the drums.
Now there are musical genres similar to the jazz: the blues, the ragtime (a piece of ragtime is Maple Lear Rag), the swing and the bebop.
A famous player of the bebop is Charlie Parker. And I’d like to talk about him.

CHARLIE PARKER
Charlie Parker was born in the 1920 in a Kansas City and he died in the 1955. He is one of the most popular  figures in jazz history and also one of its greatest tragic heroes. He was a Alto saxophonist and his nickname was Bird because he likes chicken. He left school at the age of 15 to become a musician. His education was brutal, he received many humiliations. However, Parker had a self-destructive streak in him and did anything for a thrill. He lived an amoral life. He went to a mental hospital because he had a nervous breakdown. He came back and reformed his quintet with Miles Davis taking Gillespie's place and continued making great music. Bird's self-destructive life style finally caught up with him in 1955 and he died at the age of 34.Today I want to talk about a famous interpretation of Charlie Parker: Summertime. There isn't a video of this song but we can listen a registration of this.

SUMMERTIME
Summertime is the name of an aria composed by George Gershwin in 1935, while the text wrote by his brother Ira (Israel). The song is a popular “standard jazz”, Gershwin said that it is based on a lullaby, which he heard during a performance of the Ukrainian National Chorus in New York City.
Gershwin began composing the song in December of 1933 in order to create a spiritual in the style of African American music folk.
The song became very popular and has been interpreted by many artists, in jazz and in a rock style, so it seems with “Yesterday” one of the most reinterpreted song. An international group of collectors, called "The Summertime Connection", claims to have reviewed more than 20,000 different recordings.
Among the best performances we can list:
•	Classical: London Philharmonic Orchestra
•	Jazz: Charlie Parker, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
•	Rock: Paul McCartney, Celine Dion
•	Among other famous interpretations may include: Frank Sinatra, Celine Dion, Paolo Fresu and the 1 D of the secondary school "Porcu+Satta" in Quartu Sant'Elena City.