Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious, brass band, and blues styles. The improvisational music that results has a syncopated rhythm ...

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the ... of color known as Creoles played music derived from their European and African ancestries. New immigrants from European ...

Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth century in the African American communities of New Orleans. Jazz has its origins in blues and ragtime. Jazz features lots of ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

The singer, guitarist and composer released heralded music in the 1970s and early ’80s ... s African culture behind it.” Taylor’s music was profoundly affected by American jazz and soul ...

African-American jazz has reflected social tensions surrounding race, class, “cultivated” taste, and “vernacular” pop culture. Critics have frequently compared jazz to European classical music, ...