found: Grove music online, Dec. 10, 2019(Jazz; 1) a musical tradition rooted in performing conventions that were introduced and developed early in the 20th century by African Americans; 2) a set of attitudes and assumptions brought to music-making, chief among them the notion of performance as a fluid creative process involving improvisation; and 3) a style characterized by syncopation, melodic and harmonic elements derived from the blues, cyclical formal structures and a supple rhythmic approach to phrasing known as swing)
found: The Oxford dictionary of music, 2012(jazz: A term, which came into general use c.1913-15, for a type of music that developed in the Southern States of USA in the late 19th cent. and came into prominence at the turn of the century in New Orleans, chiefly (but not exclusively) among black musicians. Elements that contributed to jazz were the rhythms of W. Africa, Eur. harmony, and Amer. gospel singing. Before the term jazz was used, ragtime was the popular name for this genre. About 1900 also, the blues craze began. Although mainly a vocal style, the predominant instrs of instr blues were tpt, cornet, cl, sax, or tb. A leading figure of this era was the black composer W. C. Handy whose Memphis Blues (1909) and St Louis Blues (1914) are jazz classics; subsequent history of jazz has embraced a diversity of styles, e.g. Dixieland, swing, be-bop, cool jazz, free jazz)
found: The Oxford companion to music, 2011(jazz: A popular music of black American origin, distinguished by its characteristic rhythms and harmonies and typically involving improvisation. The word originally signified liveliness, and may have had particular reference to sexual excitement. Although many elements went into the making of jazz--ragtime, field hollers, work songs, spirituals, vaudeville songs, street marches, the blues, and so on--it developed its own distinctive character by about 1900; the "classic" jazz style, born of and in New Orleans, is essentially a linear, melodic music, played on trumpet, trombone, and clarinet with piano, drums, banjo or guitar, and bass (brass at first, string later))
found: 2005571120: The collection of jazz music, ©2004.
