Outline of jazz
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to jazz:
Jazz spans a period of over a hundred years, encompassing a very wide range of music, making it difficult to define. Jazz makes heavy use of improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swing note,[2] as well as aspects of European harmony, American popular music,[3] the brass band tradition, and African musical elements such as blue notes and African-American styles such as ragtime.[1]
Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience and styles to the art form as well. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".[4]
As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to many distinctive styles.
In the 1930s, heavily arranged dance-oriented
The 1950s saw the emergence of
Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock music's rhythms, electric instruments and the 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.
What type of thing is jazz?
Jazz can be described as all of the following:
- Music – art and cultural form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike; "art of the Muses").
- Music genre – conventional category that identifies pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. It is to be distinguished from musical form and musical style, although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
Musical instruments typically associated with jazz
- Rhythm section instruments
- "Lead instruments and lead vocals"
- Other
- Banjo (early Dixieland jazz)
- Bass guitar (post 1950s, especially post-1970s)
- Clarinet (early Dixieland jazz and Swing-era jazz)
- Tuba (early Dixieland jazz)
Jazz genres
- Avant-garde jazz
- Bebop
- Big band
- Chamber jazz
- Continental jazz
- Cool jazz
- Dixielandor 'Early Jazz'.
- Free jazz
- Gypsy jazz
- Hard Bop
- Latin jazz
- Mainstream jazz
- M-Base
- Neo-bop
- Orchestral jazz
- Post-bop
- Soul jazz
- Spiritual jazz
- Stride
- Swing
- Third stream
- Traditional jazz
- Traditional pop
- Vocal jazz
Jazz fusion
- Acid jazz
- Afrobeat
- Bluegrass
- Bossa nova
- Dansband
- Free funk
- Humppa
- Jam band
- Jazzcore
- Jazz funk
- Jazz fusion
- Jazz rap
- Kwela
- Livetronica
- Mambo
- Manila Sound
- Nu jazz
- Nu soul
- Punk jazz
- Shibuya-kei
- Ska jazz
- Smooth jazz
- Swing revival
- World fusion
Regional scenes
Local scenes
- Cape jazz
- Kansas City jazz
- Dixieland
- West Coast jazz
Jazz compositions
Jazz standards
- Jazz standard – musical composition which is an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that it is widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners. Jazz standards include jazz arrangements of popular Broadway songs, blues songs and well-known jazz tunes.
Jazz discographies
- Blue Note Records discography
- BYG Actuel
- Cobblestone Records
- CTI Records
- ECM
- ESP-Disk
- Flying Dutchman Records
- Freedom Records
- Groove Merchant
- Impulse! Records discography
- India Navigation
- Landmark Records
- Mainstream Records
- Milestone Records discography
- MPS Records discography
- Muse Records discography
- Prestige Records discography
- Riverside Records discography
- Strata-East Records
- Verve Records discography
History of jazz
Stylistic origins
Cultural origins
- Early 1910s New Orleans
Mainstream popularity
- 1920s–1960s, although popularity and development as a genre persists into the present.
Derivatives
Years in jazz
Jazz culture
Jazz organizations
Jazz publications
- JazzTimes
- Down Beat
- Jazz Review
- Jazz Improv
- All About Jazz
Persons influential in jazz
Jazz musicians
Jazz musicians, by instrument
Jazz musicians, by genre
See also
- Glossary of jazz and popular musical terms
- Outline of music
- Victorian Jazz Archive
References
- ^ a b Hennessey, Thomas, From Jazz to Swing: Black Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1917-1935. Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1973, pp. 470-473.
- ^ Alyn Shipton, A New History of Jazz, 2nd edn., Continuum, 2007, pp. 4–5.
- ^ Bill Kirchner, The Oxford Companion to Jazz, Oxford University Press, 2005, Chapter Two.
- ^ Starr, Larry, and Christopher Waterman. "Popular Jazz and Swing: America's Original Art Form." IIP Digital. Oxford University Press, 26 July 2008.
External links
- Jazz Foundation of America
- Jazz @ the Smithsonian
- Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
- Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame website
- Jazz Artist and Discography Resource
- Red Hot Jazz.com
- Jazz at Lincoln Center website
- American Jazz Museum website
- The International Archives for the Jazz Organ
- Classic and Contemporary Jazz Music
- The Jazz Archive at Duke University
- Jazz Festivals in Europe
- Free 1920s Jazz Collection available for downloading at Archive.org
- A List of Jazz Lists
- Outline of jazz collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Outline of jazz collected news and commentary at The Guardian
- Outline of jazz at Curlie