A report on Jazz
Music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime.
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Blues
29 linksMusic genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s by African-Americans from roots in African-American work songs and spirituals.
Music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s by African-Americans from roots in African-American work songs and spirituals.
The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common.
Miles Davis
38 linksAmerican trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.
Bebop
26 linksBebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early-to-mid-1940s in the United States.
Dizzy Gillespie
30 linksJohn Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer.
Jazz fusion
23 linksJazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz ) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.
Swing music
19 linksSwing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
John Coltrane
27 linksJohn William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
Louis Armstrong
23 linksAmerican trumpeter and vocalist.
American trumpeter and vocalist.
He is among the most influential figures in jazz.
Big band
18 linksA big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.
Duke Ellington
19 linksAmerican composer, pianist, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
American composer, pianist, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
Although a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, in the opinion of Gunther Schuller and Barry Kernfeld, "the most significant composer of the genre", Ellington himself embraced the phrase "beyond category", considering it a liberating principle, and referring to his music as part of the more general category of American Music.