Outline of jazz

Outline of 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 folk marches ragtime classical music
Cultural origins	Late 19th-century United States
Typical instruments	Double bass drums guitar (typically electric guitar) piano saxophone trumpet clarinet trombone vocals vibraphone Hammond organ harmonica . In jazz fusion of the 1970s, electric bass, electric piano and synthesizer were common.
Derivative forms	Funk jump blues reggae rhythm and blues ska hip hop
Subgenres
Avant-garde jazz Bebop Big band Chamber jazz Cool jazz ECM Jazz Free jazz Gypsy jazz Hard bop Latin jazz Mainstream jazz Modal jazz M-Base Neo-bop Post-bop Soul jazz Swing Third stream Traditional jazz
Fusion genres
Acid jazz Afrobeat Bluegrass 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 Nu soul Punk jazz Shibuya-kei Ska jazz Smooth jazz Swing revival World fusion
Regional scenes
Australia Azerbaijan Brazil Canada Cuba France Germany Haiti India Italy Japan Malawi Netherlands Poland South Africa Spain United Kingdom
Other topics
Jazz clubs Jazz standard Jazz (word)

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to jazz:

Jazz – musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States, mixing African music and European classical music traditions.

Jazz is a music genre that originated from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It 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 spans a period of over a hundred years, encompassing a very wide range of music, making it difficult to define. Jazz makes heavy use of improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swing note, as well as aspects of European harmony, American popular music, the brass band tradition, and African musical elements such as blue notes and African-American styles such as ragtime.

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".