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Jazz Lovers Top 100+ List. 15 Most Influential Jazz Artists. As one of the most well respected American art forms, jazz has shaped the music industry spawning both the careers of various musical geniuses, and an abundance of elemental new music genres.

15 Most Influential Jazz Artists

Jazz was developed in the late 19th century and early 20th century as American and European classical music was mixed with African and slave folk songs. These songs were played to a syncopated rhythm, and from this emerged ragtime, then Dixieland and subsequently Big Band, what many consider to be the beginning of modern jazz. There is obvious West African influence, visible in terms of how the music is written and played; swing rhythm, polyrhythm, improvisation and syncopation are all prominent examples which are almost exclusively characteristics of jazz music.

Over the course of the 20th century, this art form has been changing drastically as new artists bring on new influence and new sound. Jazz Tube A Archive Of Jazz Videos. Everybody Wants To Be A Cat - A CAPPELLA cover Disney theme song Aristocats multitrack - Trudbol. 10 Essential Albums for Starting a Jazz Collection. If I’ve seen it once I’ve seen it a hundred times.

10 Essential Albums for Starting a Jazz Collection

Someone just getting into jazz ventures online looking for some music to start with, and is instantly inundated with about 500 different choices. Everyone has their own ideas about the best places to start a jazz music collection, and it can get overwhelming pretty quickly. I know because I was one of those neophytes.