Jazz history

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A Music Assignment on the History of Jazz

Today, institutions of higher learning — high schools, summer camps and university-level programs — are an industry unto themselves, dominating formal jazz pedagogy. But before they arrived, many creative individuals had plenty of reasons to seek them out.

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This excellent family tree shows the roots, development and evolution of Jazz music. From early blues, ragtime and dixieland/traditional jazz through big band and swing, bebop and modern jazz, and the many genres that came after.

Songs from Billie Holiday, John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald are among the 25 essential tracks this quintessential American art’s century-long history.

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St. Louis Cotton Club Band. Photograph by Block Brothers Studio, ca. 1925. Missouri History Museum Photographs and Prints Collections. Block Brothers Studio Collection. N27534.