Jazz Music
All about Jazz and its History
Jazz is a music genre that was developed in the
African-American communities of New Orleans in the early 20th century.
Jazz music is a broad style of music characterized by complex
harmony, syncopated rhythms, and a heavy emphasis on improvisation, but
evolved to embrace popular music standards, modal music, pop, rock,
funk, and even true avant-garde compositions.
The music genre has featured musical instruments like
saxophone, trumpet,
piano, clarinet and
drums
Jazz legendary musicians and instrumentalists like
Louis Armstrong,
Charlie Parker,
Miles Davis
and
Duke Ellington
helped propel jazz into a wide variety of popular music styles.
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