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25 articles with between 300 and 700 words each, including:

All About High School Jazz Competitions
The American Influence Of Jazz Music
Art Blakey
Billie Holiday
Creating Jazz Music
Diana Krall
Dizzy Gillespie

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The essence of the sound of Jazz music is so versatile due to the origins from which it first began.  In fact, New Orleans, Louisiana is the place where Jazz first began between 1850 and 1900 by African slaves as well as the freed people of color. The first style of Jazz music was known as Dixieland.

In Africa from the Middle to Central to the West, one can hear the intricate rhythmic improvisation of the percussive instruments that is often heard with Jazz Music.  These rhythms combined with the American Spirituals, Hymns, Blues, and the blue grass hillbilly musical sounds created a type of sound the originated in Jazz music.  However, the music was just a peculiar sound without a particular title to call it fifteen years later in 1915. The great pianist Earl Hines born in 1903 played this type of music before the title Jazz became an official style of music. The word "Jazz" which was formerly spelled as "Jass" has it's origins as a type of American slang used to describe the sound of Jazz music.