jazz influences
Blues and ragtime
The musical elements, artists, styles, or traditions that have shaped jazz or that jazz has absorbed.
Jazz influences include blues, ragtime, African rhythms, and European harmony.
The phrase also describes jazz's impact on other genres: You can hear the jazz influences in her hip-hop production.
Musicians cite their jazz influences when discussing artistic development.
- funkDepression or groove music
- grooveNarrow cut or routine
- improvisationSpontaneous, unplanned creation
- jam sessionInformal improvisational music gathering
- Great MigrationVast collective relocation
African American heritage · syncopation · Harlem Renaissance · abstract expressionism · civil rights movement · blue notes · blues scale · twelve bar blues · Beat Generation · orchestration · spirituals · ragtime · call and response · work songs · polyrhythms · brass section · beat poetry · upright bass