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  2. Ragtime - Wikipedia

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    While the word ragtime was first known to be used in 1896, the term probably originates in the dance events hosted by plantation slaves known as “rags”. [4] The first recorded use of the term ragtime was by vaudeville musician Ben Harney who in 1896 used it to describe the piano music he played (which he had extracted from banjo and fiddle players).

  3. Jazz - Wikipedia

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    Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music.

  4. Belgian jazz - Wikipedia

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    Together they discovered jazz music through listening to the Mitchell's Jazz Kings and other black bands in the Alhambra theater. In that period Belgium was in fact the 'jazz capital' of Europe. There were also successful white jazz bands, such as "The Georgians" with Charles Remue - now considered a pioneer of jazz in Belgium. From 1920 on he ...

  5. List of jazz genres - Wikipedia

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    Ethno jazz, a form of ethno music, is sometimes equaled to world music or is regarded as its successor, particularly before the 1990s. An independent meaning of "ethno jazz" emerged around 1990. 1990s -> European free jazz: European free jazz is a part of the global free jazz scene with its own development and characteristics. 1960s -> Flamenco ...

  6. Portal:Jazz - Wikipedia

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    A performance at the Jazz in Duketown festival in 2019, located at 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands. Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music.

  7. German jazz - Wikipedia

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    Without him, neither the European Free Jazz, even as individual musicians like Mangelsdorff, Doldinger and others, would have gained the importance that they have for the German jazz today. Berendt was the first and only global player of the jazz critics and producers of the German jazz scene, who introduced jazz from Germany abroad.

  8. List of pre-1920 jazz standards - Wikipedia

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    Originally simply called "jazz", the music of early jazz bands is today often referred to as "Dixieland" or "New Orleans jazz", to distinguish it from more recent subgenres. [ 2 ] The origins of jazz are in the musical traditions of early twentieth-century New Orleans , including brass band music, the blues , ragtime and spirituals , [ 3 ] and ...

  9. Portal:Jazz/Genres - Wikipedia

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    A performance at the Jazz in Duketown festival in 2019, located at 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands. Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music.