jazz music
Blues-born improvisational genre
Jazz music is a genre that originated among African American communities in New Orleans in the early twentieth century, characterized by improvisation, syncopated rhythms, and expressive performance.
The term usually appears simply as jazz: She listens to jazz, a jazz club.
The fuller form jazz music appears when distinguishing the genre from other uses of the word or for emphasis: Jazz music influenced rock and hip-hop.
- brass sectionOrchestra's wind-blown metal instruments
- blue noteFlatted pitch in jazz
- French QuarterHistoric New Orleans neighborhood
- Charlie ParkerBebop alto saxophone innovator
- Harlem RenaissanceBlack arts explosion, 1920s
Duke Ellington · Creole · Miles Davis · Mardi Gras · John Coltrane · speakeasy · Ella Fitzgerald · Dizzy Gillespie · Great Migration · Louis Armstrong · hard bop · Bebop · New Orleans · Thelonious Monk · Billie Holiday · Miles · riff · smoky
- 20th Century EuropeWorld War I, interwar, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Berlin Wall
- speakeasysecret bar, hidden door, password, bootleg liquor, bathtub gin
- SyncretismSanteria, Vodou, folk religion
- coffeehouseespresso, Turkish coffee, latte, barista, macchiato
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, book banning, book bans
jazz musicclassical music
Western orchestral tradition
orchestral music · written music · symphonic music · chamber music · opera