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Jazz is an American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style’s West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, call-and-response, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note of ragtime.



From its early development until the present, jazz has also incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music, which is based on European music traditions. The word jazz began as a West Coast slang term of uncertain derivation and was first used to refer to music in Chicago in about 1915.

Jazz has, from its early 20th century inception, spawned a variety of subgenres, from New Orleans Dixieland dating from the early 1910s, big band-style swing from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s, a variety of Latin-jazz fusions such as Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz from the 1950s and 1960s, jazz-rock fusion from the 1970s and later developments such as acid jazz.
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July 2008
Today (Thursday 24 July 2008)
Hiromi

Blue Note
New York, United States

4 people attending
5 shouts

Tomorrow (Friday 25 July 2008)
Dave Matthews Band

Ingrid Michaelson

 Verizon Wireless Music Center
Indianapolis, United States

13 people attending
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Saturday 26 July 2008
Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine at House of Blues

Richard Cheese

 House of Blues
San Diego, United States

2 people attending
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Dave Matthews Band

Ingrid Michaelson

 Verizon Wireless Music Center
Indianapolis, United States

8 people attending
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Tuesday 29 July 2008
Dave Matthews Band

Ingrid Michaelson

 Columbus Crew Stadium
Columbus, United States

6 people attending
1 shout
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Wednesday 30 July 2008
Dave Matthews Band

Ingrid Michaelson

 Blossom Music Center
Cuyahoga Falls, Cleveland, United States

12 people attending
2 shouts
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