jazz roots
New Orleans origins
Jazz roots refers to the musical traditions and cultural origins from which jazz emerged—particularly African American spirituals, blues, ragtime, and West African rhythms.
The term appears in music education and historical contexts: a jazz roots festival, studying the jazz roots of hip-hop.
It can also describe a return to traditional jazz styles after experimentation: The band went back to their jazz roots.
- ragtimeSyncopated piano genre
- bluesMournful American music genre
- blue notesMicrotonal jazz pitches
- bent notesPitches altered mid-sound
- African rhythmsTraditional continental percussion styles
work songs · syncopation · Creole culture · Louis Armstrong · Jelly Roll Morton · juke joints · cutting contest · Reconstruction Era · call-and-response · spirituals · Caribbean influences · New Orleans · Great Migration · swing · polyrhythms · 1890s · minstrelsy · Harlem Renaissance
- Black DiasporaAfrican American, African Americans, African diaspora, African heritage, motherland
- Music OriginsNew Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Jamaica, Motown
- musical influencesinspiration, mentors, idols, predecessors, pioneers
- Creole culturesLouisiana Creole, Creole cuisine, Haitian Creole, Creole music, Creole seasoning
- Southern HistoryDeep South, Antebellum, Old South, Dixie, Confederate
- AmericanaAmerican flag, Fourth of July, bald eagle, Thanksgiving, apple pie
jazz rootsmodern jazz
Post-1940s improvisational genre
jazz fusion · fusion · free jazz · jazz-rock · smooth jazz