Jazz and blues are types of music that can trace their roots back to the early 20th Century, in the southern United States. Jazz was very popular as it was a fresh, new sound. Different styles of ...

This notion exists because many small jazz groups do not read music when they play. The truth of the matter is that what those musicians are actually doing is spontaneously creating a very ...

When the magazine began covering jazz ... music as dry and formal.” Modern composers had become mere “experimentor[s] in cacophony.” Still, at least jazz wasn’t pretentious. “It does not ...