Dec 6, 2025 · Jazz, musical form, often improvisational, developed by African Americans and influenced by both European harmonic structure and African rhythms. It is often characterized by syncopated …

Jazz music, which was developed by African Americans and was influenced by both African rhythms and European harmonic structure, first appeared at the turn of the 20th century and has since …

Cool jazz, a style of jazz that emerged in the United States during the late 1940s. The term derives from what journalists perceived as an understated or subdued feeling in the music of Miles Davis, the …

Nov 7, 2025 · Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist known for lush harmonies and lyrical improvisation, one of the most influential pianists of his time. Evans’s first piano teacher was his …

Dec 5, 2025 · Jazz - Ornette Coleman, Free Jazz, Exploration: Whereas most of these postwar musicians worked out their individual styles through personal explorations within the central modern …

jazz, Musical form, often improvisational, developed by African Americans and influenced by both European harmonic structure and African rhythms.

Dec 15, 2025 · Biography of Robert E. Lee, Confederate commander of the Army of Northern Virginia and later all Southern armies during the American Civil War (1861–65). The Army of Northern …

Dec 6, 2025 · Jazz - Orchestral, Improvisation, Swing: It was in the 1920s that the first forms of true orchestral jazz were developed, most significantly by Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington.

Susquehanna River, one of the longest rivers of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. It rises in Otsego Lake, central New York state, and winds through the Appalachian Plateau in New York, …

Nov 14, 2025 · Jazz - Fusion, Improvisation, Swing: The first signs of these fresh musical sounds could be heard as early as 1941, particularly in works by such composer-arrangers as Buster Harding, …