Jazz Music Jazz music is an uniquely american music style. It came from the South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. But jazz is more more than that. It is a feeling you have. It is emotional. It makes you feel good, or happy, or mellow, or sad. That is why so many people listen to jazz. Jazz isn’t really one style- it is many. It is a blend of different music styles, and it has many different sounds. Some folks like the slow, sweet sounds of smooth jazz. Other folks like the pulsing beat of modern jazz. There are as many sounds as tastes.