| The 20th century music world has seen the entry of | | | | ragtime. Ragtime music moved on from red-light |
| light and easy listening music with African-American | | | | district bars and vaudeville shows to major concert |
| jazz music. Originating in southern USA, jazz music is | | | | locations such as the Carnegie Hall. |
| a combination of African and European music | | | | The first jazz record was recorded in 1913 by |
| traditions. It puts together the use of blue notes, | | | | Society Orchestra, the first black group to come out |
| improvisation, syncopation and swing notes. | | | | with a record. Another group that came up with their |
| Jazz music was first used in reference to music from | | | | very own jazz music recording is the "Original |
| Chicago early in the 20th century. It has evolved in | | | | Dixieland Jazz Band". Other bands followed suit, |
| several other subgenres such as New Orleans | | | | releasing jazz music recordings starting in 1917. In |
| Dixieland, big band-style swing, bebop, Afro-Cuban | | | | 1922, the most famous blues singer of the decade, |
| jazz, Brazilian jazz, jazz-rock fusion, and the more | | | | Bessie Smith, also released her first recording. Also in |
| recent acid jazz. | | | | the 1920s, Jelly Roll Morton played with the New |
| The realm of jazz music was and still is predominantly | | | | Orleans Rhythm Kings and made history as the first |
| associated with the American black community. | | | | mixed-race recording collaboration. Big bands like |
| These black musicians transitioning from banjos and | | | | those of Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington and Earl |
| tambourines learned to play European instruments | | | | Hines played the more prominent venues and paved |
| such as the violin. Black slaves from early America | | | | the way for the development of big-band-style swing |
| used to sing and play music as a form of spiritual or | | | | jazz. |
| ritualistic hymns. | | | | Louis Armstrong, a trumpeter, band leader and singer, |
| After emancipation, employment opportunities for | | | | came to be known as the Ambassador of Jazz, what |
| black slaves were very limited as segregation laws | | | | with his early innovations in jazz music. Swing music is |
| were still in force. Most of these black slaves found | | | | considered to be popular dance music and is played |
| themselves in the entertainment industry as piano | | | | from printed musical arrangements. Then came the |
| players and instrumentalists. They became low-cost | | | | bebop which focuses more on small groups and |
| entertainers as minstrels, vaudeville players, piano bar | | | | simple arrangements. |
| players, and marching band members. Soon, this kind | | | | Throughout the years jazz music has always been |
| of jazz music called Ragtime Jazz spread from the | | | | preferred music genre among those who enjoy light |
| southern USA to other areas in the western and | | | | and easy listening. There are radio stations that play |
| northern cities in USA. | | | | only jazz music. Jazz music can be heard most |
| Ragtime jazz became very popular in the early part | | | | everywhere hotel lounges, salons, concert halls, |
| of the century. Musician Jelly Roll Morton published | | | | wedding receptions, Jazz music is perhaps also the |
| the first ever jazz arrangement in print in 1915 with | | | | most unique form of music as there are no two jazz |
| the title Jelly Roll Blues. This printed arrangement | | | | music performances are ever the same. |
| brought forth a new breed of musicians playing | | | | |