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Jazz

As a musical language of communication, jazz is the first indigenous American style to affect music in the rest of the

World. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_jazz

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Genres

• Acid jazz, avant-jazz, Dixieland, Cixieland revival, calypso jazz, chamber jazz, contemporary jazz, continental jazz, cool jazz, creative jazz, crossover jazz, european free jazz, Franchesca jazz, free funk, free jazz, groove jazz, gypsy jazz, hard bop, jazz blues, jazz-funk, jazz fusion, jazz rap, jazz rock, jungle bop, kansas city jazz, latin jazz

• The Birth of Jazz (New Orleans) http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.artknowledgenews.com/files2007/EricWaughJamSession.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.artknowledgenews.com/New_Orleans_Jazz.html&h=307&w=291&sz=37&hl=en&start=52&um=1&usg=__DxGfAL8QBycEgjxM9bLd5hcFgLQ=&tbnid=ZbRehGw

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Dixieland Jazz• Dixieland music or sometimes

referred to as Hot jazz or New Orleans jazz is a style of jazz which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s. Dixieland jazz combined brass band marches, French Quadrilles, ragtime and blues with collective, polyphonic improvisation by trumpet (or cornet), trombone, and clarinet over a "rhythm section" of piano, guitar, banjo, drums, and a double bass or tuba.Well-known jazz standard songs from the Dixieland era, such as "Basin Street Blues" and "When the Saints Go Marching In", which are known even to non-jazz fans (for more information on Dixieland songs, see the List of Dixieland standards).

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixieland

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Ragtime• Ragtime (alternately spelled Rag-time) is an American musical genre which enjoyed its peak

popularity between 1897 and 1918. It has had several periods of revival since then and is still being composed today. Ragtime was the first truly American musical genre, predating jazz[1]. It began as dance music in popular music settings years before being published as popular sheet music for piano. Being a modification of the then popular march, it was usually written in 2/4 or 4/4 time (meter) with a predominant left hand pattern of bass notes on odd-numbered beats and chords on even-numbered beats accompanying a syncopated melody in the right hand. A composition in this style is called a "rag". A rag written in 3/4 time is a "ragtime waltz".Ragtime is not a "time" (meter) in the same sense that march time is 2/4 meter and waltz time is 3/4 meter; it is rather a musical genre that uses an effect that can be applied to any meter. The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of syncopation in which melodic accents occur between metrical beats. This results in a melody that seems to be avoiding some metrical beats of the accompaniment by emphasizing notes that either anticipate or follow the beat. The ultimate (and intended) effect on the listener is actually to accentuate the beat, thereby inducing the listener to move to the music. Scott Joplin, the composer/pianist known as the "King of Ragtime", called the effect "weird and intoxicating". He also used the term "swing" in describing how to play ragtime music: "Play slowly until you catch the swing...".[2] The name swing later came to be applied to an early genre of jazz that developed from ragtime. Converting a non-ragtime piece of music into ragtime by changing the time values of melody notes is known as "ragging" the piece. Original ragtime pieces usually contain several distinct themes, four being the most common number.According to the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz the musical form was originally called "ragged time" which was elided to "ragtime”

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime

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NOLA• Jazz...the sound that put New Orleans on the

map, musically speaking!! It's a distinctive sound--not big band swing, with horns creating harmony. Nor is it modern jazz or "bebop," the post World War II style that relies on speeding tempos and virtuosic soloing. And it's not "pop" music, the form of music from the pre-rock 'n roll days.New Orleans jazz is a style of music. Almost any song can be "jazzed" up with a New Orleans beat. Jazz is music for dancing, not listening, even though that is what modern jazz became in the 1950s and beyond. New Orleans Jazz has a swinging, stomping, syncopated beat that makes you want to dance! It also has a simple melodic quality that sounds dated to some today.New Orleans Jazz is also heard in brass bands, the kind we hear in our Mardi Gras street parades. They rely on wind instruments and separate bass and snare drums, all of which can be carried.

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Distinctive Artistic Styles

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Links

• http://www.jazzreview.com/link/label_link.html (mostly independent)

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