Jazz From History To Present: Ragtime, Dixieland, Bepop, Soul Jazz, And More

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular musi... Read more

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music. In this guide explore jazz from history to present. From New Orleans Dixieland dating from the early 1910s, big band-style swing from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s, a variety of Latin jazz fusions such as Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz, free jazz from the 1950s and 1960s, jazz fusion from the 1970s, to acid jazz from the 1980s, and Nujazz in the 1990s. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. Less