It is often characterized by syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, and the use of original timbres. It was developed partially from ragtime and blues and is. It was in the 1920s that the first forms of true orchestral jazz were developed, most significantly by fletcher henderson and duke ellington. Major swing soloists also emerged in the 1930s—most notably tenor saxophonists coleman hawkins, lester young, and ben webster Pianists art tatum and teddy wilson 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). Duke ellington, american pianist who was the greatest jazz composer and bandleader of his time Early attempts to define jazz as a music whose chief characteristic was improvisation, for example, turned out to be too restrictive and largely untrue, since composition, arrangement, and ensemble have also been essential components of jazz for most of its history. 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. Jazz music continued to grow and change throughout the 1950s and 1960s
In the early 1930s two bands made important contributions to jazz Bennie moten’s, with the recordings of “toby,” “lafayette,” and “prince of wails,” and the casa loma orchestra, with “casa loma stomp” and “san sue strut.”
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