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Jazz From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). Jazz Stylistic origins: Blues and other folk musics, Ragtime, marching bands, 1910s New Orleans. Typical instruments: Saxophone – Trumpet – Trombone – Clarinet – Piano – Guitar – Double bass – Drums – Vocals Mainstream popularity: 1920s–1960s Subgenres Avant-garde jazz – Bebop – Cool jazz – Dixieland – Free jazz – Gypsy jazz – Hard bop – Jazz fusion –Kansas City Jazz – Latin jazz – Mainstream jazz – Modal jazz – M-Base – Smooth jazz – Soul jazz – Swing – Trad jazz – Third stream – West Coast jazz Fusion genres Acid jazz – Asian American jazz – Calypso jazz – Crossover jazz – Jazz blues – Jazz fusion – Jazz rap – Nu jazz – Smooth jazz – Bossa Nova Jazz around the world Australia – Brazil – France – India – Italy – Japan – Malawi – Netherlands – Poland – South Africa – Spain – United Kingdom Jazz musicians Bassists – Clarinetists – Drummers – Guitarists – Organists – Pianists – Saxophonists – Trombonists – Trumpeters Other topics Jazz standard – Jazz royalty – Jazz (word)– Jazz clubs – Jazz drumming Jazz Portal Jazz is an original American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States out of a confluence of African and European music traditions. The use of blue notes, call-and-response, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swung note of ragtime are characteristics traceable back to jazz's West African pedigree.[1] During its early development, jazz also incorporated music from from 19th and 20th century American popular music based on European music traditions.[2] The origins of the word "jazz," which was first used to refer to music in about 1915, are uncertain; for the origin and history, see Jazz (word). Jazz has, from its early 20th century inception, spawned a variety of subgenres, from New Orleans Dixieland dating from the early 1910s, big band-style swing from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s, a variety of Latin-jazz fusions such as Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz from the 1950s and 1960s, jazz-rock fusion from the 1970s and later developments such as acid jazz.