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Pianist Keith Jarrett—whose bands of the 1970s had played only original compositions with prominent free jazz elements—established his so-called 'Standards Trio' in 1983, which, although also occasionally exploring collective improvisation, has primarily performed and recorded jazz standards. Chick Corea similarly began exploring jazz ...
A style of jazz music often said to have been started by guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt in the 1930s. The style was originally called "hot club" or "hot jazz" and served an acoustic European interpretation of swing. The term "gypsy jazz" didn't appear until after the 1970s, when Sinti people adapted their folk music to emulate that of Django's.
The origin of the word jazz is one of the most sought-after etymologies in modern American English. Interest in the word – named the Word of the Twentieth Century by the American Dialect Society – has resulted in considerable research and the linguistic history is well documented. "Jazz" originated in slang around 1912 on the West Coast ...
A performance at the Jazz in Duketown festival in 2019, located at 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands. Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music.
For a list of the core jazz standards, see the following lists by decade: . Before 1920; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s and later; For a looser, more comprehensive A-Z list of jazz standards and tunes which have been covered by multiple artists, see the List of jazz tunes
And yet you have impact in that field in small or big ways, from doing an intimate show at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club last year to having your album debut at No. 1 on the jazz chart.
In January 1979, [4] Thad suddenly moved to Copenhagen, Denmark (to the great surprise of his New York bandmates), where several other U.S. jazz musicians had gone to live. There he became the leader of The Danish Radio Big Band, [1] and married a Danish woman, Lis. Jones transformed the Danish Radio Big Band into one of the world's best.
Jazz standard – musical composition which is an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that it is widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners. Jazz standards include jazz arrangements of popular Broadway songs, blues songs and well-known jazz tunes. List of pre-1920 jazz standards