Jazz is a type of music with a strong rhythm and solo improvisations . It originated in New Orleans in 1900 and was played as an accompaniment to funerals , weddings and country outings . Early Jazz bands featured cornets , clarinets and trombones .
Charles Joseph ‘Buddy’ Bolden was an innovative but unrecorded cornettist in New Orleans , who has been described as ‘the first man of Jazz’ ( c. 1901 ). ‘Jelly Roll’ Morton and Louis Armstrong are associated with New Orleans jazz . Morton was arguably the originator of the blues ( a type of slow , sad music ) . His jazz orchestrations , which were published in around 1905 , were the earliest in book form . Louis Armstrong was a trumpeter and singer who pioneered a new style of jazz that centered on improvisational solos . As a young man he played the cornet on Mississippi riverboats . In 1922 , he joined the Chicago-based band of Joseph ‘King’ Oliver and soon he was leading his own bands .
In the 1920s , Jazz spread to larger US cities , such as New York and Chicago . The bands were enlarged with saxophones and additional trumpets and cornets . Swing , a type of popular dance music that uses a large band , developed from jazz in the 1930s . Important bandleaders during this era were Paul Whiteman , Benny Goodman , Glenn Miller and Count Basie .
Bop , with its smaller bands and rhythmic innovations , developed in the 1940s . Key figures were Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker . During the late 1940s and 1950s a new form of jazz emerged – cool jazz , as played by Stan Getz and Miles Davis .
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