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    In the early 1940s in jazz, bebop emerged, led by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and others. It helped to shift jazz from danceable popular...
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    Ned Washington. Jazz portal "Jazz History (1940s)". JazzStandards.com. Retrieved May 18, 2009. "Jazz History: The Standards (1940s)". JazzStandards.com....
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    hepcat, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jump blues and jazz, in particular bebop, which became popular in the early 1940s. The hipster subculture...
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  • the major events and trends in popular music in the 1940s. In the developed world, swing, big band, jazz, Latin and country music dominated and defined...
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  • style), and gypsy jazz (a style that emphasized musette waltzes) were the prominent styles. Bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular...
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  • core jazz standards, see the following lists by decade: Before 1920 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s and later For a looser, more comprehensive A-Z list of jazz standards...
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    Azerbaijani jazz Bossa nova British jazz Cuban jazz Dutch jazz French jazz Indo jazz Italian jazz Japanese jazz Jazz in Germany Music of Malawi Polish jazz South...
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  • jazz by traditional jazz revivalists, starting in the 1940s and 1950s. In his book Jazz, the critic Rex Harris defined Dixieland as "Jazz played in a...
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  • Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed...
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    Big band (redirect from Jazz orchestra)
    section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular. The term "big band" is also used to...
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    Bebop (redirect from Bop jazz)
    Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo...
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    Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s, based on the earlier...
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    categories who were active in California from the 1940s through the 1960s, developing what came to be known as West Coast jazz. "Exploratory music with...
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  • Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined...
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  • subgenres of jazz music. Jazz portal Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin. p. 2. ISBN 0-141-00646-3. "Acid jazz (genre)"...
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    Louis Prima (category American jazz singers)
    jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a big band group in the 1940s, helped to popularize jump blues in the late 1940s and...
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    Norwegian singer and pianist. 1940s in jazz List of years in jazz 1942 in music "Jazz History: The Standards (1940s)". JazzStandards.com. Retrieved 2017-11-06...
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  • Contrafact (redirect from Jazz contrafact)
    the 1940s been applied to jazz, where it is still not standard. In classical music, contrafacts have been used as early as the parody mass and In Nomine...
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    American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey...
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  • developed during the 1940s Third stream, a synthesis of jazz and classical music developed during the 1950s Jazz fusion, a synthesis of jazz and other styles...
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