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Jazz (other)
Jazz is a style of music and its subgenres. Jazz may also refer to: Computing * Jazz (computer), a development platform used by Microsoft * Jazz (mobile network operator), a mobile network operator in Pakistan * IBM Jazz, a team collaboration platform * Lotus Jazz, a spreadsheet program for Macintosh Literature * Jazz (magazine), ''Jazz'' (magazine) or ''Jazz & Pop'', a 1962–1972 magazine * Jazz (manga), ''Jazz'' (manga), a Japanese comic book * Jazz (novel), ''Jazz'' (novel), a 1992 novel by Toni Morrison * Jazz (Henri Matisse), ''Jazz'' (Henri Matisse), a book collecting pochoir prints based on cut-outs by Henri Matisse * Jazz (picture book), ''Jazz'' (picture book), a 2006 children's book by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Christopher Myers * ''Jazz Magazine'', a French magazine about jazz, founded 1954 Music * Jazz, Ltd., a Dixieland jazz band, nightclub, and record label in Chicago * Jazz (singer), member of Black Buddafly * Jazz (Ry Cooder album), ''Jazz'' (Ry Cooder a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a 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. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. 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. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
