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The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...

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 ...

During the 1960s, Polish jazz evolved into three basic styles: Dixieland (traditional), straight ... Countless Polish jazz musicians have been exploring the legacy of Komeda and his songbook, with ...

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As new, modern styles began to take hold in Interwar Poland, so too did jazz, which began to infect the most famous dance floors ... (the first American Dixieland band in Europe), as well as polishing ...

Saxophone virtuoso Charlie Parker, left, brought Miles Davis, right, into his bebop band in the 1940s, Davis’s first professional job The Original Dixieland ... jazz and popular music Singer ...

Bebop did more than the swing and Dixieland sounds that it supplanted to give jazz its reputation as high culture. As appealing as big-band swing was (and still is), had jazz’s development stopped ...

Photographers were inspired by the cool sensibilities of jazz musicians as they practiced their craft. Learn more about jazz and the birth of cool in the National Portrait Gallery's online exhibition ...

To many, composed music and improvised music seem to be opposites, but in jazz, they merge in a unique fashion. It has been said that the best improvised music sounds composed, and that the best ...