Although jazz has been slow to take root in China, by the late 1990s a significant number of Chinese musicians had adopted the genre, an international jazz festival had been established in Beijing, and numerous jazz clubs were thriving in China, Taiwan...

Although New Orleans is the acknowledged birthplace of jazz, Chicago is regarded as the first place outside of the South where jazz was heard, and New Orleans-style jazz was first recorded in Chicago. Popular in the 1920s, "Chicago Jazz" refers to a...

Of all the great American musical forms—blues, rock 'n' roll, country, and jazz—jazz has proven to be the most subtle, the most flexible, the most capable of growth and change, the one which has developed from folk art and...

Jazz is an original American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States out of a confluence of African and European music traditions. The use of blue notes,...

Jazz/Not Jazz At Earshot, It's Not an Important Distinction Earshot Jazz Festival Fri Oct 19-Sun Nov 4 www.earshot.org. Seattle's longest-running jazz festival is also its most visionary. Now 19 years old, the Earshot Jazz Festival curates a roster of far-flung...

Our critics appraise the season and offer their 'high -five' predictions The boom in jazz recording activity has created a widening of the audience for this music, even though the number of Greater Boston clubs has dwindled in the last two years. Those...

Quincy Jones was among six musicians named as National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters for 2008.The 2008 Jazz Masters were announced Tuesday night at a ceremony hosted by NEA Chairman Dana Gioia at the Jazz at Lincoln Center venue named after trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie,...

A white and black-clad band led a hearse carrying the body of clarinetist Alvin Batiste and hundreds of mourners attached themselves to the jazz funeral Saturday for one of the city's most revered musicians.In the morning, crowds lined up to pay homage to the jazz...

In the following essay, which was originally presented as a panel discussion among Young, Kart, and Harper at the annual meeting of the Associated Writing Programs in Chicago, Young, Kart, and Harper—all writers with a great interest in jazz—comment on the interrelationship among the arts, especially focusing on how jazz has shaped their creative process, the style and content of their works, their self-identity, and their response to other art forms.

In the following essay, Harding discusses the jazz criticism and theories of Theodor Adorno, which he then applies to Ralph Ellison's novel The Invisible Man.

In the following essay, Malcolm discusses Jack Kerouac's use of jazz and the deeper influence of African-American culture in his novel On the Road.

Essay provides a discussion of the history of jazz.

This is about the influence of jazz in today's musical outlook.