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The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz. Originating in New Orleans as mainly sourced from the culture of African Americans, jazz played a significant part in wider ...
Afro-Cuban jazz renaissance. For most of its history, Afro-Cuban jazz had been a matter of superimposing jazz phrasing over Cuban rhythms. But by the end of the 1970s, a new generation of New York City musicians had emerged who were fluent in both salsa dance music and jazz, leading to a new level of integration of jazz and Cuban rhythms.
October 2, 1973. New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park is a U.S. National Historical Park in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, near the French Quarter. It was created in 1994 to celebrate the origins and evolution of jazz .
12 – The 2nd Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (June 12 – 18). 30 – The 15th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (June 30 – July 3). Unknown date. The English avant-rock ensemble Henry Cow was founded at Cambridge University. Album releases
Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival in Kansas City [citation needed] Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival in Sedalia [72] Nebraska. Omaha Blues, Jazz, & Gospel Festival in Omaha. Nevada. Las Vegas City of Lights Jazz Festival in Las Vegas [73] Reno Jazz Festival in Reno [citation needed] New Jersey.
History. Rouè-Doudou Boicel founded the Rising Sun Festijazz, Montreal's first blues & jazz festival in 1978. There were also other previous jazz festivals in Montreal, including the 3-day Jazz de Chez Nous festival in 1979, created by Montreal bassist Charlie Biddle.
Celebrates jazz music's influence in promoting peace and intercultural dialogue: Date: April 30: Next time: April 30, 2025 () Frequency: Annual: First time: April 30, 2012: Related to: Jazz
Jazz, rock, pop: Dates: August: Location(s) Newport, Rhode Island: Coordinates: Years active: 1954–present: Founded by: George Wein, Elaine Lorillard: Website: newportjazz.org
Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) is a music festival held every April in Canada and the United States, in honor of jazz as an early American art form. JAM was created in 2001 by John Edward Hasse, curator of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
In a review in The American Historical Review, George A. Boeck wrote: "Gunther Schuller's history of early jazz is the most scholarly and perceptive work on the subject to date." [7] Some twenty years later, in a review of The New Grove Dictionary of American Music in Music and Letters , Peter Dickinson wrote: "Gunther Schuller set standards in ...