Mar 13, 2025 · Jazz, musical form, often improvisational, developed by African Americans and influenced by both European harmonic structure and African rhythms. It is often characterized …

Mar 13, 2025 · Jazz - Cool, Bebop, Swing: Perhaps in reaction to the hot, more strident, more frenetic expressions of the postwar bands, or perhaps as a direct influence of the Thornhill …

cool jazz, a style of jazz that emerged in the United States during the late 1940s. The term cool derives from what journalists perceived as an understated or subdued feeling in the music of …

Jazz features syncopated rhythms—rhythms with stimulating, offbeat accents. The several instruments in jazz groups are usually played in separate rhythms that unite to create an …

The popularization of jazz music and the introduction of provocative new dances typified the spirit of the time. The prominence of the new musical style is reflected in another common name for …

The most important jazz bandleader after World War II was Miles Davis. Outstanding among trumpet soloists, he led many small ensembles, including three that were the original sources …

jazz, Musical form, often improvisational, developed by African Americans and influenced by both European harmonic structure and African rhythms. Though its specific origins are not known, …

Mar 14, 2025 · Swing, in music, both the rhythmic impetus of jazz music and a specific jazz idiom prominent between about 1935 and the mid-1940s, years sometimes called the swing era. …

Jazz dance, any dance to jazz accompaniments, composed of a profusion of forms. Jazz dance paralleled the birth and spread of jazz itself from roots in Black American society and was …

Feb 19, 2025 · Ragtime, propulsively syncopated musical style, one forerunner of jazz and the predominant style of American popular music from about 1899 to 1917. Ragtime evolved in …