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- Jazz | Definition, History, Musicians, Facts | Britannica
Jazz, musical form, often improvisational, developed by African Americans and influenced by both European harmonic structure and African rhythms It is often characterized by syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, and the use of original timbres Learn more about its history and prominent musicians
- jazz summary | Britannica
jazz, Musical form, often improvisational, developed by African Americans and influenced by both European harmonic structure and African rhythms Though its specific origins are not known, the music developed principally as an amalgam in the late 19th- and early 20th-century musical culture of New Orleans
- Bill Evans | Jazz Pianist, Composer Innovator | Britannica
Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist known for lush harmonies and lyrical improvisation, one of the most influential pianists of his time Evans’s first piano teacher was his mother; he also studied violin and flute
- Cool jazz | Description, Musicians, Facts | Britannica
cool jazz, a style of jazz that emerged in the United States during the late 1940s The term cool derives from what journalists perceived as an understated or subdued feeling in the music of Miles Davis, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Gerry Mulligan, Lennie Tristano, and others
- John Coltrane | Biography, Songs, Albums | Britannica
John Coltrane (born September 23, 1926, Hamlet, North Carolina, U S —died July 17, 1967, Huntington, New York) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, an iconic figure of 20th-century jazz Coltrane’s first musical influence was his father, a tailor and part-time musician
- Jazz - Orchestral, Improvisation, Swing | Britannica
Jazz - Orchestral, Improvisation, Swing: It was in the 1920s that the first forms of true orchestral jazz were developed, most significantly by Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington Although large aggregations had begun to appear in the late teens, these were dance orchestras playing the popular songs and novelty pieces of the day, with nary a
- Bossa nova | Brazilian, Jazz, Samba | Britannica
Bossa nova, Brazilian popular music that evolved in the late 1950s from a union of samba (a Brazilian dance and music) and cool jazz The music is in syncopated 24 time The composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and the guitarist João Gilberto may be considered the founders of this style, which was
- Jazz dance | Definition, History, Characteristics, Types, Facts . . .
jazz dance, any dance to jazz accompaniments, composed of a profusion of forms Jazz dance paralleled the birth and spread of jazz itself from roots in Black American society and was popularized in ballrooms by the big bands of the swing era (1930s and ’40s)
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