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jive

a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz...


big band

A band that is the size of an orchestra usually playing mostly jazz or swing music The big band typically features both ensemble and solo playing sometimes has a lead singer and is often located in a night club where the patrons may dance to its music The big bands were popular from the late 1920s to the 1940s Contrasted with combo which has fewer players...


bop

an early form of modern jazz originating around 1940...


combo

a small band of jazz musicians...


hepcat

One who performs jazz music...


jazz

A type of music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles but generally featuring intricate rhythms improvisation prominent solo segments and great freedom in harmonic idiom played frequently in a polyphonic style on various instruments including horn saxophone piano and percussion but rarely stringed instruments...


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