Jazz Music - Genre
Jazz has been called America's classical music, and for good reason. Along with the blues, its forefather, it is one of the first truly indigenous musics to develop in America, yet its unpredictable, risky ventures into improvisation gave it critical...More »
Styles of Jazz: Big Band/Swing · Bop · Fusion · New Orleans/Classic Jazz · Soul Jazz/Groove
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Seattle’s Origin Records was recognized as the 2009 Jazz Label of the Year at the JazzWeek Awards, held June 20th in Rochester, NY, during the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival. ... Marius Nordal ; Boomer Jazz; (ORIGIN 82545)
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There are many theories of how jazz started, but there is only one real answer to where jazz was started. Some people say that jazz was created because some people wanted a different flavor of music and just started making it up.
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The Origins of Jazz essay by Len Weinstock. A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 1000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians. ... Tracing the origins of Jazz in the formative years (1895-1917) is not an easy task. Recordings of Jazz...
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Origin Jazz Library website ... ; Origin Jazz Library The record label for Blues, Jazz, Folk, Cajun, and Western Swing since 1960. ... Welcome to the Origin Jazz Library web page. Our releases can be found by clicking on "Catalog." Check back for regular updates on our upcoming new releases! ;
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Jazz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditio...
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Jazz (word) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The origin of 'the word jazz is one of the most sought-after word origins in modern American English. The word's intrinsic interest — the American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth...
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In the absence of any certain origin, various colourful alternative theories have been put forward, for instance, the name jazz came from the nickname of a certain Jasbo Brown, an itinerant musician along the banks of the Mississippi.
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; They came, by and large, from kingdoms along the hot and humid Guinea Coast of West Africa--the area stretching from the Senegal River in the north to the Bight of Benin and south as far as the mouth of the Congo. Their tribal identities were Ashanti, Fanti, Hausa, Yoruba, ... There, in ports called Bonny and Calabar,
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This soft-cover book accompanied the original "Sincerely, Bix Beiderbecke" LP box sets, which have been since updated, resulting in the current "Bix Restored" compact disc series. The book was written by Chip Deffaa, noted jazz critic for The New York Post.
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