Jazz adolah sabuah genre musik nan barasa dari komunitas Afrika-Amerika di New Orleans, Louisiana, pado akhia abaik ka-19 jo awal abaik ka-20. Ureknyo adolah dalam musik blues, ragtime, harmoni Eropa, ritual irama Afrika, spiritual, hymn, mars, lagu vaudeville, jo musik tari. Sajak Zaman Jazz taun 1920-an, iko alah diakui sabagai bantuak utamo ekspresi musik dalam musik tradisional jo populer. Jazz dicirikan jo not ayunan jo biru, chord nan kompleks, vokal panggilan jo tanggapan, poliritme jo improvisasi.
Bacoan labiah lanjuik
- Berendt, Joachim Ernst; Huesmann, Günther, eds (2005). Das Jazzbuch (edisi ke-7). Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer. ISBN 3-1000-3802-9.
- Carr, Ian. Music Outside: Contemporary Jazz in Britain. 2nd edition. London: Northway. ISBN 978-0-9550-9086-8
- Davis, Miles (2005). Boplicity. Delta Music plc. UPC 4-006408-264637.
- Downbeat (2009). The Great Jazz Interviews: Frank Alkyer & Ed Enright (eds). Hal Leonard Books. ISBN 978-1-4234-6384-9
- Gridley, Mark C. 2004. Concise Guide to Jazz, fourth edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-1318-2657-3
- Hendler, Maximilian (2023). Prehistory of Jazz. Vienna: Hollitzer (=Studies in Jazz Research Vol. 16). ISBN 978-3-9901-2980-7
- Nairn, Charlie. 1975. Earl 'Fatha' Hines: 1 hour 'solo' documentary made in "Blues Alley" Jazz Club, Washington DC, for ATV, England, 1975: produced/directed by Charlie Nairn: original 16mm film plus out-takes of additional tunes from that film archived in British Film Institute Library at bfi.org.uk and itvstudios.com: DVD copies with Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library [who hold The Earl Hines Collection/Archive], University of California, Berkeley: also University of Chicago, Hogan Jazz Archive Tulane University New Orleans and Louis Armstrong House Museum Libraries.
- Schuller, Gunther. 1991. The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930–1945. Oxford University Press.
