Originating in New Orleans, jazz developed from blues, spirituals, and African-American work songs. Jazz uses African rhythms and melodies, British ballads, and folk songs. Brass bands and minstrel bands contributed to jazz. Rampart Street, Franklin Street, Basin Street, Congo Square, and Perdido Street are in New Orleans' Storyville section.
It started in Storyville and on Bourbon Street and featured brass instruments. It improvised from marches, quadrilles, ragtime, and blues. Name comes from the Original Dixieland Jass Band of 1917. It migrated to Chicago and New York.
Style evolved from New Orleans style jazz, used harmony in improvisation, and included Benny Goodman, Thomas Waller, and Bix Beiderbecke. It migrated to New York in 1930's.
It was music to dance to.
Large bands played jazz in the Swing Era.
White musicians, such as clarinetist George Lewis with Burgundy Street Blues [1946], rediscovered Dixieland.
It is fast and uses harmonics. It started with Coleman Hawkins [1939] and included Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Thelonious Monk.
Named by Stan Kenton, it was on the West Coast and was experimental and dissonant.
Miles Davis was leader.
It incorporates classical music and is very complex and/or fast, such as by the Modern Jazz Quartet: John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, and Connie Kay.
It was free form and included John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, McCoy Tyner, Albert Ayler, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, and Pharoah Sanders.
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