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The term "jazz rock" is sometimes used as a synonym for "jazz fusion" and for music performed by late 1960s- and 1970s-era rock bands that added jazz elements to their music. After a decade of popularity during the 1970s, fusion expanded its improvisatory and experimental approaches through the 1980s in parallel with the development of a radio ...
After two years the Jazz Age seems as far away as the days before the war", F. Scott Fitzgerald commented in 1931. [49] In the sense noted by Fitzgerald, understanding the moral climate of the early 1930s is complex.
A traditionalist jazz band plays at a party in New Orleans in 2005. The Original Dixieland Jass Band, recording its first disc in 1917, was the first instance of jazz music being called "Dixieland", though at the time, the term referred to the band, not the genre.
In the postwar period, and after nearly 20 years of isolation, many music fans as well as musicians themselves were very interested in the movements of jazz they had missed. In fact, jazz gave young people the enthusiastic hope for rebuilding the country.
A jazz funeral for the Equal Rights Amendment took place in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana on July 3, 1982. The event was a public mourning for the failure of the proposed Amendment to the United States Constitution to be ratified by the required 38 states (3/4 of the 50 states) before the congressionally imposed 1982 deadline.
Erenberg, Lewis A. Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture (1998) Gitler, Ira. Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s (1987) Hennessey, Thomas J. From Jazz to Swing: African-Americans and Their Music, 1890–1935 (1994). Schuller, Gunther. The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930 ...
The Jazz's attendance declined slightly after the team's move from New Orleans to Utah, partly because of a late approval for the move (June 1979) and also poor marketing in the Salt Lake City area. [18] Tom Nissalke departed as coach after the Jazz started the 1981–82 season 8–12, and general manager Frank Layden replaced him.
Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo (usually exceeding 200 bpm), complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references ...