Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth century in the African American communities of New Orleans. Jazz has its origins in blues and ragtime. Jazz features lots of ...

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Growing from its infancy into maturity, it became more diverse, more sophisticated and more stylish. During the 1960s, Polish jazz evolved into three basic styles: Dixieland (traditional), ...

These vibrant styles have been taken to heart by people ... including the Original Dixieland jazz Band and Joe "King" Oliver's Creole jazz Band, brought their hot, improvised numbers to receptive ...

Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues. The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in ...

Saxophone virtuoso Charlie Parker, left, brought Miles Davis, right, into his bebop band in the 1940s, Davis’s first professional job The Original Dixieland ... ‘cool jazz’ style of the ...

A Dixieland Jazz band established by brothers Fred and Frank Assunto, and their dad Papa Jac Assunto. Some say the Dixieland ...

Out of this musical melting pot came jazz. Since the ‘Jazz Age’ of the 1920s, jazz has become a major genre in musical expression, and its development has allowed for the rise of different breakout ...

and he credited jazz with influencing the development of his vibrant style. Jackson Pollock's action painting technique reflected the improvisation, freedom, and rhythm of the jazz music he loved.

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