Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Sandy Stewart with Dick Hyman. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime , as well as European military band music. Jazz Popular instrumental music. Similar Items Related Subjects: 4 Jazz -- Other styles and genres abound in the s, such as Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz.

Retrieved August 24, New Orleans jazz began in the early s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles , ragtime, and blues. The wide array of styles that emerged included the polyphonic improvisation of New Orleans jazz, stride piano, big band swing and bebop. Subjects Jazz -- Search WorldCat Find items in libraries near you. T he ultimate musical chameleon. His talents as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director , electronic musician, and, increasingly, as a composer have resulted in a long career involving film scores, orchestral compositions, concert appearances and well over albums recorded under his own name.

By Duke Ellington had stopped using the term jazz because he believed that it was a word without meaning, and he claimed that there were too many styles to be contained under one heading. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to many distinctive styles. Some features of WorldCat will not be available. The development of jazz music during the first half of the twentieth century occurred at an astonishingly rapid pace. He is sometimes compared to Benny Goodman in tone and virtuosity. In , he played with Charlie Parker on the only television appearance Parker ever made; the band included Dizzy Gillespie and played Hot House.

He also demonstrated his continuing interest in new keyboard instruments, releasing two of the earliest Moog albums. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: or. Dick Hyman's fame for being able to perform in virtually any musical style on any keyboard instrument has come to overshadow his accomplishments as a musician and arranger in his own right. By high school, he was playing in dance bands throughout Westchester County. Hyman wrote the orchestrations for the Broadway burlesque revue Sugar Babies. Home About Help Search.