Jazz
Jazz Sanas of "Jazz" Educational CyberPlayGround It takes the gift of ... Cassidy, with the source of the word "Jazz" back to Kildare, Ireland. The word Jazz is Irish. The Influence of Africa: Syncopation ... Call and Response and Timbre Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University Jazz Institute ...
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Calypso music
Calypso music Calypso Stylistic origins: West African kaiso, native and ... mid 20th century Derivative forms: Subgenres Oratorical calypso - Young Brigade Fusion genres Chut-kai-pang ... Virgin Islands - Venezuela Other topics Carnival, Calypsonian - Calypso tent - Picong Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean ...
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Modal jazz
Modal jazz Modal jazz is jazz played using musical modes rather than chord progressions. History An understanding of modal jazz requires knowledge of musical modes. Modes are ... had become such a dominant part of jazz that sidemen at recording dates were ...
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Free jazz
Free jazz Free jazz is a movement of jazz music characterized by diminished dependence on formal ... later works of John Coltrane. While free jazz is most often associated with the era ... the present day, continuing its development as jazz idiom. History Ornette Coleman is often ...
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Jazz rap
Jazz rap Jazz rap is a fusion of alternative hip hop music and jazz, developed in the very late 1980s and ... often socio-political or Afrocentric lyrics and jazz beats (sometimes performed by a live band, instead of sampled), jazz rap has not become a huge ...
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Trad jazz
Trad jazz Trad jazz, short for "traditional" jazz is a music genre popular in Britain ... and playing styles of New Orleans dixieland jazz. British and Australian bands of this genre ... Oliver. Opinions are divided about whether "trad jazz" is a valid name because one ...
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Gypsy jazz
Gypsy jazz Gypsy jazz is an idiom that was pioneered in ... has come to be known as Gypsy jazz. One of the primary sources of employment ... remains an important component in the Gypsy jazz repertoire. Reinhardt combined a dark, chromatic Gypsy ... create a beautiful and original style of jazz. His genius for improvised melody was ...
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Smooth jazz
Smooth jazz Smooth jazz is generally described as a genre of ... and, at times, improvisation) traditionally associated with jazz and stylistic influences drawn from, among other ... one can tune in to a "smooth jazz"-themed station nearly everywhere in the United ... a backlash against the genre, mostly from jazz purists who consider its recordings bland ...
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Jazz blues
Jazz blues Jazz blues is a musical style that combines jazz and blues. The term also refers to ... chord progression, whilst being played in the jazz style, rather than the traditional blues style ... a major influence in the development of jazz, and such tunes -- "jazz blueses" -- are ...
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Nu jazz
Nu jazz Nu-jazz (sometimes electro-jazz or phusion) was coined in the late ... 1990s to refer to styles which combine jazz textures and sometimes jazz instrumentation with electronic music. Like the ...
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