Jazz is a genre of music with African roots.
Eras and Subgenres
- pre-jazz African-rooted music
- New Orleans jazz (1890-1917): collective improv, polyphonic
- swing era (1920s-1930s): simplistic dance music, composed
- symphonic jazz: use of strings, notated & composed
- big-band jazz: freer than symphonic jazz
- stride piano popular in rent parties
- bebop (1940s): dense, complex, virtuosic, long solos
- cool jazz (1940s-1950s): lighter, melodic and lyrical
- hard bop (1955-1965): slower, bluesy, mostly minor, strong backbeat
- post-bop (1950s-1960s)
- Latin jazz (1940s-1960s)
- jazz fusion (late 1960s)