Jazz

100–200 BPM Mid energy

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation.

emerged ~1920 · derived from traditional · spawned Bebob, Bop, Jazz-funk, Swing ↗ see in graph

Sound of Jazz

Like a Tattoo

Sade

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I Fall in Love Too Easily

Chet Baker

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Paradise

Sade

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Back to Black

Amy Winehouse

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My Way

Frank Sinatra

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Found In

Jazz-funk

Related Tokens

Abstract Acid Acidcore Afrobeat Alternative Ambient Art Avant-Garde Ballad Band Bap Bass Beat Beats Bebob Big Blues Boom Bop Bossa Breakbeat Breakcore Breaks Broken Chillout Chillwave Christmas Classic Classical Coast ConcrèTe Cool Cumbia Dance Dark Deep Downtempo Dream Drill Drum Dub East Easy Electronic Electropop Experimental Folk Folktronica Free Funk Fusion Future Gospel Hard Hardcore Highlife Hip Hop House Hypnagogic IDM Illbient Indietronica Instrumental Jam Jangle Jazz-funk Jungle Latin Leftfield Listening Lo-Fi Lounge Modal Motown Music Musique New Nova Nu Phonk Political Pop Post Post-Bop Post-Rock Progressive Psychedelic R&B Rap Reggae Rock Singer-Songwriter Smooth Soul Stream Swing Synth Synth-pop Third Trance Trip Turntablism Underground Vocal Wave conscious contemporary dance-pop disco electro electronica neo other techno traditional wonky

Sources & Attribution

Source	Entry Name	Confidence	Link	Notes
edit.music library	Jungle, Electronic, Hip Hop, Jazz, Drum & Bass	Derived from data	—	Imported from genre-map.json; variant: jungle\|electronic\|hip hop\|jazz\|drum n bass
Last.fm	Jazz	Derived from data	—
Wikipedia	Jazz music	Derived from data	↗

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