History of jazz

Jazz
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) is considered one of the pivotal musicians in jazz for his contributions as a trumpet player, composer and singer.
Stylistic origins	Blues ragtime spirituals folk marches classical
Cultural origins	Late 19th century, Southern United States
Typical instruments	Horns keyboards bass drums guitar vocals
Derivative forms	Art rock funk krautrock progressive rock psychedelic rock reggae rhythm and blues soul
Subgenres
Avant-garde jazz bebop big band chamber jazz cool jazz free jazz gypsy jazz hard bop Latin jazz mainstream jazz modal jazz M-Base neo-bop post-bop progressive jazz soul jazz swing Third Stream traditional jazz
Fusion genres
Acid jazz Afrobeat bluegrass bossa nova crossover jazz dansband folk jazz free funk humppa Indo jazz jam band jazzcore jazz-funk jazz fusion jazz rap kwela Mambo Manila Sound nu jazz neo soul punk jazz ska jazz smooth jazz swing revival world fusion
Regional scenes
Australia Armenia Azerbaijan Balkans (Bulgaria) Baltimore Belgium Brazil Canada Chicago Cuba Denmark France Germany Haiti India Iran Italy Japan Kansas City Malawi Netherlands New Orleans New York City Poland South Africa (Cape Town) Spain Sweden United Kingdom West Coast United States
Other topics
Jazz clubs Jazz standard Jazz (word)

Jazz is a music genre that originated in African American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience and styles to the art form as well. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to many distinctive styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. In the 1930s, heavily arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz, a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisational style and Gypsy jazz (a style that emphasized musette waltzes) were the prominent styles. Bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular music toward a more challenging "musician's music" which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed in the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, linear melodic lines.