Dixieland
Early jazz style
Dixieland is an early style of jazz that originated in New Orleans in the early twentieth century, characterized by collective improvisation, a driving rhythm, and prominent use of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone.
The term comes from Dixie, a nickname for the American South.
The band played Dixieland standards all night.
Dixieland can also refer more loosely to the South itself.
Louisiana's largest city
- ragtimeSyncopated piano genre
- swingSuspended recreational seat
- trumpetValved brass wind instrument
- Louis ArmstrongPioneering jazz trumpeter, singer
trombone · clarinet · improvisation · syncopation · banjo · brass band · hot jazz · Bourbon Street
Region with distinct identity
- ConfederateSecessionist state supporter
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- Mason-DixonHistoric North-South boundary
- Deep SouthSouthernmost American states
plantation · cotton · Mississippi · Louisiana · Alabama · Georgia · Civil War · Reconstruction
New Orleans
Louisiana's largest city
Louis Armstrong · trombone · clarinet · improvisation · syncopation · banjo · brass band · hot jazz · Bourbon Street · combo
South
Region with distinct identity
- ConfederateSecessionist state supporter
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- Mason-DixonHistoric North-South boundary
Deep South · plantation · cotton · Mississippi · Louisiana · Alabama · Georgia · Civil War · Reconstruction · magnolia
- American musicjazz, blues, country music, rock, country
- bandsmarching band, brass bands, concert band, marching bands, symphonic band
- Deep SouthAlabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi River, Mississippi Delta
- Roaring Twentiesflappers, Charleston, speakeasies, jazz age, Prohibition
- 1920s Musicjazz, ragtime, Charleston, blues, hot jazz
- American Rootsblues, bluegrass, country, folk, jazz
Dixielandfree jazz
Formless avant-garde improvisation
bebop · experimental jazz · cool jazz · fusion · hard bop
- Dixieland jazzEarly New Orleans musical form
- dixieland bandTraditional jazz musical group