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Birth of Nick La Rocca
Nick La Rocca was one of the creators of Dixieland Jazz, perfecting its craft even and making it a clear set form of music. -
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Dixieland
Dixieland is southern drumming, using just a small symbol and a snare drum. -
Birth of Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington popularized the Big Band format, with his courtet of musicians! -
Birth of Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman had a huge hand in popularizing swing jazz, -
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Big Band
Bands were getting bigger, having 16 instruments, four saxophones, four trumpets, four trombones, bass, drums, guitar, and piano. They also moved from bars and speakeasies, it moved to concert halls, ballrooms, and other occasions people would usually dance to. -
Birth of Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie was a jazz musician, singer, and an educator, popularizing bebop jazz -
Birth of Art Blakey
Art Blakey is the other father of Hard Bop Jazz, the drummer of his band. -
Birth of Miles Davis
Miles Davis had a major part in popularizing Post-bop Jazz, he also had the same type of hold on Cool Jazz! -
Birth of Horace Silver
Horace Silver was one of the fathers of Hard Bop Jazz, popularizing the style of music, being the pianist of his band. -
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor is one of the fathers of Avant Garde Jazz! -
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Swing
Strong rhythm with loose woodwind sounds and brass playing in tandem. -
Birth of Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman is said to be one of the greatest Avant garde jazz musicians ever, boing one of the fathers of the craft! -
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Bebop
Evolving again to only have 4 members, it had better improv, more interaction, and different ways of playing the drums. -
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Cool
Cool was a calm relaxing form of jazz music, with minimal percussion at a quiet pace. -
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Avant Garde
Avant Garde was an edgy form of jazz, often chaotic and unplanned. -
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Post-Bop
Post-Bop was the first branching out of several styles of jazz, being the time when many others came out. -
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Hard Bop
Jazz driven by emotion! Showing dramatic scenes with loud percussion and saxophone. -
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Free Jazz
Jazz adding many freestyle forms into itself, such as solos and other very interesting things. -
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Modern Jazz
Wanting more freedom and abstract art, it wasn't nearly as steady or repetitive, branching off even more than post-bop did. -
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Fusion Jazz
Combining jazz music with lots of other things, such as solos, backbeats, and more of a modern form. Most of these are what is used in samples. -
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Jazz-Rock
Jazz-rock combines early and late jazz music, with many notes of jazz with electric instruments to boot.