Timeline

a timeline of jazz

as said by Ken Burns, the history of jazz is deeply intertwined with the history of the US of America. Look also for the social and cultural events that would impact jazz music, jazz musicians, and jazz followers from the 1800s to the 1990s.

Dixieland Jazz
(1910)

Chicago, New York


 * Original Dixieland Jass Band
 * New Orleans Rhythm Kings


 * Tiger Rag – Original Dixieland Jazz Band,
 * When The Saints Go Marchin In – Buck Johnson and His New Orleans Band

Chicago Jazz
(1920)


 * Louis Armstrong,
 * King Oliver – King Olivers Creole Jazz Band
 * Jelly Roll Morton. (Just Gone)

Swing
(1930)
 * Fletcher Henderson, Big Band
 * Glenn Miller
 * Benny Goodman
 * Duke Ellington
 * Count Basie

Bebop
(1940)

Jam Sessions

Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem (Recording Ban 1942-44)


 * Charlie Parker (The Bird)
 * Dizzy Gillespie
 * Thelonius Monk
 * Charlie Christian

Hard bop, Latin Jazz

 * Dizzy Gillespie

Afro-Cuban Drums Suite

Blue Monk – Thelonious Monk, Be-Bop – Dizzy Gillespie

Cool Jazz
(1950)
 * Lester Young
 * Miles Davis (Birth oft he Cool)
 * Modern Jazz Quartett, John Lewis
 * Dave Brubeck (Take Five, 1959)

Free Jazz, Bossa Nova
(1960)
 * Ornette Colemans
 * Cecil Taylor
 * John Coltrane
 * Stan Getz (Cool Jazz and Samba)
 * Antonio Carlos Jobim (Bossa Nova)

Fusion
Fusion, Acid- und Jazz-Rap (from 1970)

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