17 Facts About Jazz music

Jazz music has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

Jazz is difficult to define because it encompasses a wide range of music spanning a period of over 100 years, from ragtime to the rock-infused fusion.

Usually such Jazz music was associated with annual festivals, when the year's crop was harvested and several days were set aside for celebration.

In turn, European-American minstrel show performers in blackface popularized the Jazz music internationally, combining syncopation with European harmonic accompaniment.

African-American Jazz music began incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythmic motifs in the 19th century when the habanera gained international popularity.

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Habaneras were widely available as sheet Jazz music and were the first written Jazz music which was rhythmically based on an African motif.

Handy's music career began in the pre-jazz era and contributed to the codification of jazz through the publication of some of the first jazz sheet music.

Jazz music was known as "the father of white jazz" because of the many top players he employed, such as George Brunies, Sharkey Bonano, and future members of the Original Dixieland Jass Band.

Jazz music began to get a reputation as immoral, and many members of the older generations saw it as a threat to the old cultural values by promoting the decadent values of the Roaring 20s.

Jazz music signed a contract with Victor and became the top bandleader of the 1920s, giving hot jazz a white component, hiring white musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Frankie Trumbauer, and Joe Venuti.

The swing-era jazz of the previous decade had challenged other popular music as being representative of the nation's culture, with big bands reaching the height of the style's success by the early 1940s; swing acts and big bands traveled with US military overseas to Europe, where it became popular.

Divorcing itself from dance Jazz music, bebop established itself more as an art form, thus lessening its potential popular and commercial appeal.

Since the 1950s, sacred and liturgical music has been performed and recorded by many prominent jazz composers and musicians.

Jazz music noted that the traditions of black gospel music and jazz were combined in the 1950s to produce a new genre, "sacred jazz".

Jazz music fusion was popular in Japan, where the band Casiopea released more than thirty fusion albums.

Jazz music rap developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s and incorporates jazz influences into hip hop.

In 2001, Ken Burns's documentary Jazz music was premiered on PBS, featuring Wynton Marsalis and other experts reviewing the entire history of American jazz to that time.