Outline of jazz

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to jazz:

Jazz – musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States, mixing African and European music traditions.

What type of thing is jazz?

Jazz can be described as all of the following:

Musical instruments typically associated with jazz

However, the breadth of jazz as an umbrella genre, as well as the notably progressive, extemporizing nature of jazz for which it is well-known means that it may incorporate many other instruments, some of which are intrinsic to that branch of jazz; for instance, the flute, with its associations with Big band jazz, or indeed the banjo listed above, which, although critical to earlier traditional, particularly Dixieland jazz, ceases to be a staple of modern jazz ensembles thereafter, outside of Trad jazz or fusion.

Jazz genres

Jazz fusion

Regional scenes

Local scenes

Jazz compositions

Jazz standards

Jazz discographies

History of jazz

Stylistic origins

Cultural origins

Mainstream popularity

Derivatives

Years in jazz

Jazz culture

Jazz organizations

Jazz publications

Persons influential in jazz

Jazz musicians

Jazz musicians, by instrument

Jazz musicians, by genre

See also

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