Ragtime (alternately spelled Ragged-time) is an originally American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1897 and 1918. Ragtime was the first truly American musical genre, predating jazz.[1] It began as dance music in the red-light distric...

Bebop or bop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on the combination of harmonic structure and melody. It was developed in the early and mid-1940s. It first surfaced in musicians' argot some time during the first two years of ...

Jazz Family Tree-New Orleans Jazz Buddy Bolden forms his first band. Jelly Roll Morton, then just years old, starts playing piano Storyville. Later would claim that invented jazz that year. Buddy Bolden, suffering from mental illness, committed institution. Fr...

Jazz Family Tree-Avant-Garde Free Jazz Era Lennie Tristano and his sextet record "Intuition" and "Digression," the first free jazz improvisations Shelly Manne, Shorty Rogers and Jimmy Giuffre form unusual trio recording session and perform couple free pieces C...

Jazz Family Tree-Latin Jazz Era Duke Ellington's valve trombonist Juan Tizol composes "Caravan Machito forms the Afro-Cubans Mario Bauza joins Machito's band musical director and begins hiring jazz arrangers for the influential group Chano Pozo killed. Charlie...

Jazz Family Tree-Classic Jazz 20-30 The Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB cuts the first jazz recordings. "Livery Stable Blues" best-seller. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band visits England and big sensation Mamie Smith records the first blues record, "Crazy B...

Jazz Family Tree-Cool Jazz Era Lester Young makes recording debut with small group out Count Basie's band, introducing the jazz world new softer sound for the tenor John Kirby forms his cool -toned swing sexte Claude Thornhill adds two french horns his big ban...

The word Fusion has been so liberally used since the late '60s that it's become almost meaningless. Fusion's original definition was best: a mixture of jazz improvisation with the power and rhythms of rock. Up until around 1967, the worlds of jazz and rock wer...

Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist, composer and jazz icon. His career started with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in both classical music ...

Keith Jarrett Discography Part 1990-2009 Keith Jarrett Konserthuset, Oslo, Norway Keith Jarrett Trio Keith Jarrett (p) Gary Peacock (b) Jack DeJohnette (d) "Konserthuset", Oslo, Norway, October 1989   All You ECM (G) 1542   Little Girl Blue -   Just Time -   O...

Swing Journal Jazz Magazine Swing Journal June 2009   Stanley Getz, better known Stan Getz (February 1927 June 1991) was jazz musician. considered one the greatest tenor saxophone players all time, well known for his instantly recognizable wa...

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