About Jazz Music and Subgenres
Jazz is a music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th Century, arguably earlier, within the African-American communities of the Southern US. Its roots lie in the combining by African-Americans of certain European harmony and form elements, with their existing African-based music. Its African musical basis is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, syncopation and the swung note. From its early development until the present day, jazz has also incorporated elements from popular music especially, in its early days, from American populer music.
As the music has developed and spread around the world it has, since its early American beginnings, drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures, giving rise to many distinctive styles:
- New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s,
- big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s,
- bebop from the mid-1940s
Generally, there are 20 kind of Jazz subgenres. Here are list of Jazz subgenres :
1. Ragtime
2. Classic Jazz
3. Hot Jazz
4. Chicago Style
5. Swing
6. Kansas Style
7. Gypsy Jazz
8. Bebop
9. Mainstream
10. Vocalese
11. Cool
12. Hard Bop
13. Bossa Nova
14. Free Jazz
15. Soul Jazz
16. Groove
17. Fusion
18. Afro-Cuban Jazz
19. Acid Jazz
20. European Jazz
Jazz spans a range of music from ragtime to the present day and has proved to be very difficult to define. Attempts have been made to define jazz from the perspective of other musical traditions. In contrast to the efforts of commentators and enthusiasts of certain types of jazz, who have argued for narrower definitions that exclude other types, the musicians themselves are often reluctant to define the music they play.
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