Category:Jazz

Originating Location: Originated in New Orleans

Originating Era: early 1900s

Key Artists

 * Miles Davis
 * Dave Brubeck
 * Raymond Scott

Key Albums

 * Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool
 * Dave Brubeck - Take Five

Genre Description
Jazz is a form of music that has made the critical and cultural evolution from disrespected wild music to one of the major forms of "Serious" music. There are many different forms of jazz, from the anarchic Free Jazz practiced by Ornette Coleman and Otomo Yoshihide, to Noise (not a straight form of Jazz, to clarify, though Jazz does share many similarities and many Noise musicians are also Jazz musicians) like Merzbow, Aki Onda or Otomo Yoshihide, to the more straight jazz of Big Band acts like Freddie Martin and Benny Goodman. One of the keys to most jazz is Improvisation, although composers and bandleaders like Raymond Scott allowed no room for improvisation, instead forcing his band to play written music as if it were improvised.

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