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Jazz, along with blues, is the music genre that gave birth to most of the forthcoming styles of the 20th Century.

The origins of jazz are in New Orleans in 1895, as a fusion between ragtime, marching band music, and blues, which are characterized by the improvisation. African Americans and Creole musicians in New Orleans played the first jazz music. Buddy Bolden-the cornet player- is generally accepted to be the first real jazz musician in history. Other early musicians include Bunk Johnson, Freddie Keppard, and Clarence Williams, all of them being non-professionals. New Orleans saw a 2nd wave of musicians that under the name of “hot jazz” that was developed the old tradition and made popular and commercially successful, featuring Kid Ory, Joe “King” Oliver, and Jelly Roll Morton.

Trumpet player Louis Armstrong became the most famous jazz musician in the world and his impact altered the course of both popular and classical music. Jazz music diversified in the last decades in many different subgenres, featuring dixieland, ragtime, bebop, free, latin jazz, acid jazz, jazz rock, and World fusion.

Some essential artists in the history of jazz are Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Chic Corea, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Return to Forever, Weather Report, and Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Jazz has been also one of the main influences in electronic music during the last decades, specially in the genres of acid jazz, house, drum ‘n’ bass, artcore, and jazzstep.