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Jazz is an American musical art form which originate around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style's West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, call-and-response, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note of ragtime.

Trivia about jazz

  • Before it acquired its musical meaning in the early 20th century, it was baseball slang for "pep" or "energy"
  • Bop & bebop, which emerged in the 1940s, are styles of this type of music that debuted decades earlier
  • Swing was the most popular style of this music in the 1930s
  • The NBA in a state that meets at Four Corners:Dixieland, bebopor swing
  • Type of music that's the title of Toni Morrison's 1992 novel set in 1926 Harlem
  • When asked what this musical form was, Louis Armstrong replied, "Man, if you gotta ask, you'll never know"
  • Fitzgerald:"Tales of the ____ Age"
  • Sandra Booker, Nina Simone & Esperanza Spalding are all sultry chanteuses of this 4-letter musical genre
  • In 1996 Wayne Shorter & Dave Brubeck performed at Vienna's festival for this type of music
  • Styles of music in the titles of the JVC & Playboy festivals
  • Gunther Schuller is known for mixing classical style with this American music form: way "cool"
  • In 1979 New Orleans lost its NBA franchise to Utah, which strangely enough chose to keep this nickname

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