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Jazz Through The Ages- It's good to know where you came from! Here's a way to get a short overview on the history of jazz and how it has involved, as well as learn about Jazz and its various genres past and present.

1890s-1910s
Ragtime
Dixieland

1920s-1930s "The Jazz Age"
Swing
Gypsy Jazz

1940s-1950s
Dixieand Revival
Bebop
Cool Jazz
Hard Bop
Modal Jazz
Free Jazz

1960s-1970s
Latin Jazz
Post Bopt
Soul Jazz
Jazz Fusion
Jazz Funk

1980s-2010s
Smooth Jazz
Acid Jazz/Nu Jazz/Jazz Rap
Punk Jazz/Jazzcore
M-Base


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15 Jazz Artists YOU HAD BETTER KNOW!!!

Art Tatum: “Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.” Example: here
Thelonious Monk: “Wrong is right.” Example: here
Charles Mingus: “I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.” Example: here
Art Blakey: “Music washes away the dust of every day life.” Example: here
Dizzy Gillespie: “It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.” Example: here
Max Roach: “We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.” Example: here
Billie Holiday: “I never sing a song the same way twice.” Example: here
John Coltrane: “You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.” Example: here
Count Basie: “Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!” Example: here
Coleman Hawkins: “If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.” Example: here
Benny Goodman: "If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice." Example: here
Miles Davis: “Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.” Example: here
Charlie Parker: “Master your instrument, Master the music, and then forget all that shit and just play.” Example: here
Duke Ellington: “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.” Example: here
Louis Armstrong: “What we play is life.” Example: here



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