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  2. Jazz improvisation - Wikipedia

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    In jazz, when one instrumentalist or singer is doing a solo, the other ensemble members play accompaniment parts. While fully written-out accompaniment parts are used in large jazz ensembles, such as big bands, in small groups (e.g., jazz quartet, piano trio, organ trio, etc.), the rhythm section members typically improvise their accompaniment parts, an activity called comping.

  3. Jazz dance - Wikipedia

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    Jazz Dance is a performance dance and style that arose in the United States in the early 20th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Jazz Dance may allude to vernacular Jazz , Broadway or dramatic Jazz. The two types expand on African American vernacular styles of dance that arose with Jazz Music.

  4. 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.

  5. Milestones (instrumental composition) - Wikipedia

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    "Milestones" is a jazz composition written by Miles Davis.It appears on the album of the same name in 1958. It has since become a jazz standard. "Milestones" is the first example of Miles composing in a modal style and experimentation in this piece led to the writing of "So What" from the 1959 album Kind of Blue.

  6. List of jazz tunes - Wikipedia

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    This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes, which includes jazz standards, pop standards, and film song classics which have been sung or performed in jazz on numerous occasions and are considered part of the jazz repertoire. For a chronological list of jazz standards with author details, see the lists in the box on the right.

  7. List of jazz genres - Wikipedia

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    British dance band is a genre of popular jazz and dance music that developed in British dance halls and hotel ballrooms during the 1920s and 1930s. 1920s -> Cape jazz: Cape jazz (more often written Cape Jazz) is a genre of jazz that is performed in the southernmost part of Africa, the name being a reference to Cape Town, South Africa. 1990s ->

  8. So What (Miles Davis composition) - Wikipedia

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    "So What" is the first track on the 1959 album Kind of Blue by American trumpeter Miles Davis. It is one of the best-known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D Dorian, followed by eight bars of E ♭ Dorian and another eight of D Dorian. [1]

  9. Solar (composition) - Wikipedia

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    Miles Davis' tombstone showing the first two measures of "Solar" "Solar" (/ ˈ s oʊ l ər / or / s oʊ ˈ l ɑːr / [citation needed]) is a composition written by Chuck Wayne and later recorded and copyrighted with small alterations by Miles Davis.