Jazz Recordings

Jazz Recordings Although jazz is a term often applied to a variety of related music styles, such as blues, R&B, boogie-woogie, and ragtime, this article is concerned only with the tradition of American music that developed from the music of African Americans in and around New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century. The earliest jazz derived from the idiom of the New Orleans dance band—a group typically consisting of violin, cornet, clarinet, trombone, drums, bass, and guitar or banjo. Violin…