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Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United
States. It originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and
ragtime. Jazz is seen by many as "America's classical music". Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has
become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent
traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African-American and
European-American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz is characterized by swing
and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African
cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime,
as well as European military band music. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of
America's original art forms".

As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different
styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine,
ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. In the 1930s, heavily arranged dance-oriented swing big bands,
Kansas City jazz, a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisational style and Gypsy jazz (a style that emphasized musette waltzes)
were the prominent styles. Bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular music toward a more
challenging "musician's music" which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz
developed near the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, linear melodic lines.

The 1950s saw the emergence of free jazz, which explored playing without regular meter, beat and formal structures, and
in the mid-1950s, hard bop emerged, which introduced influences from rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues, especially in
the saxophone and piano playing. Modal jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis
of musical structure and improvisation. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz
improvisation with rock music's rhythms, electric instruments, and highly amplified stage sound. In the early 1980s, a
commercial form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful, garnering significant radio airplay. Other styles and
genres abound in the 2000s, such as Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz.

Selected article Did you know...

'Round About Midnight is an album by jazz ... that

musician Miles Davis. It was his debut on although Ray
Columbia Records, and was originally released in Charles and
Nancy Sinatra
March 1957 (CL 949). The album took its name
solos of "Here We Go
from the Thelonious Monk song " 'Round
Again" made Billboard's
Midnight". Recording sessions took place at Hot 100, Charles' 2004
Columbia Studio D on October 26, 1955, and at duet with Norah Jones
Columbia's 30th Street Studio on June 5 and became the second
September 10, 1956. Grammy Record of the Year that did not?
Although it had a lukewarm reception upon its release, 'Round About ... that Willie Nelson, Wynton Marsalis
and Norah Jones (trio pictured) recorded
Midnight has since been regarded by critics as a masterpiece of the
a live tribute album covering songs of
hard bop genre and one of the greatest jazz albums of all time. On April Ray Charles?
17, 2001, Sony reissued the album for compact disc on its
Columbia/Legacy label, which featured 24-bit remastering and included ... that Philippe Saisse's Grammy-
nominated album At World's Edge was
bonus tracks and master takes from the initial sessions. A further two-
dedicated to his father Maurice?
disc reissue, on June 14, 2005, featured the 2001 reissue and a second
disc containing Davis' 1955 Newport Jazz Festival performance of ... that most of 75 was recorded on Joe
Zawinul's 75th birthday and about two
" 'Round Midnight", along with a recording of the quintet's set from the
months before he died? (Zawinul
1956 Pacific Jazz Festival. (Full article...)
pictured)
... that Steve Vai plays the sitar on
"Moroccan Roll", a track from Mike
Selected biography Stern's Grammy-nominated album Big
Neighborhood?
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January
6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, May 2011
bandleader, composer and occasional
singer.

Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy "Writing about music is like dancing about
Gillespie's contributions to jazz were
architecture"
huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters
of all time (some would say the best),
Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up
copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon
Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully
recreated [...] Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and
fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time."

Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the

virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity
previously unknown in jazz. He was an early player of bebop. (Full Andreas Paolo Perger
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