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Raju Maharjan

Raju has completed a bachelor’s in Ethnomusicology and pursuing culture and history as a minor and Musicology as a major. “A good song asks the question,” Paul Brady. This is a quote that he constantly reminds every time to creates music. His passion for writing articles on jazz music began when he took jazz guitar class, where the art of improvisation heavily influenced him.

The History of Jazz Music

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The Jazz style was created in the 20th century, by black artists, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and has since expanded into different forms. Early jazz performers such as Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton improvised over these ragtime and blues traditions, resulting in a wholly distinct style of American music. Ragtime and jazz syncopations were … Read more