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  2. New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park - Wikipedia

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    New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park is a U.S. National Historical Park in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, near the French Quarter. It was created in 1994 to celebrate the origins and evolution of jazz. Most of the historical park property consists of 4 acres (16,000 m 2) within Louis Armstrong Park leased by the National Park Service.

  3. Music of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    Instead, New Orleans jazz bands began incorporating a style known as "ragging"; this technique implemented the influence of ragtime 2/4 meter and eventually led to improvisation. In turn, the early jazz bands of New Orleans influenced the playing of the marching bands, who in turn began to improvise themselves more often.

  4. New Orleans Jazz Museum - Wikipedia

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    The New Orleans Jazz Museum is a music museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of jazz music. Originally a separate museum, the collection is now affiliated with the Louisiana State Museum .

  5. Up from the Cradle of Jazz - Wikipedia

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    Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II is a book by Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose and Tad Jones. It chronicles the history of New Orleans music, primarily rhythm and blues, and its evolution post-World War II. It was first published in 1986. An expanded second edition was published in 2009.

  6. List of jazz genres - Wikipedia

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    Dixieland music or New Orleans jazz, sometimes referred to as hot jazz or early jazz, is a style of jazz music which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century. Stylistically, it is essentially a form of Ragtime typically transposed for brass band, banjo or clarinet. 1900s -> Electro swing [3]

  7. New Orleans Jazz - Wikipedia

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    New Orleans Jazz may refer to: Dixieland, a style of jazz music (New Orleans Jazz) Music of New Orleans § Jazz; New Orleans Jazz (NBA team), professional basketball team that relocated and became the Utah Jazz; New Orleans Jazz football club, an American football team in the Stars Football League; New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

  8. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - Wikipedia

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    The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that presents the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The foundation was formed in 1970 as the festival's nonprofit arm. Festival founders George Wein, Quint Davis and Allison Miner trusted that Jazz Fest would be a success, despite a slow start in ticket sales.

  9. Hogan Jazz Archive - Wikipedia

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    In 1958, then Tulane University graduate student Richard B. "Dick" Allen started a project on the oral history of New Orleans jazz. William Ransom Hogan (1908-1971) was a professor in the history department at Tulane University from 1947 until his death in 1971. [5]