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Jazz, is a type of music developed about 1900, with its roots mingled in the musical traditions of American blacks. These include traits surviving from West African music, black folk music forms developed in the Americas, European popular and light classical music of the 18th and 19th centuries, and later popular music forms influenced by black music or produced by black composers. Most early jazz was played in small marching bands or by solo pianists. Besides ragtime and marches, the repertoire included hymns, spirituals, and blues. Around the beginning of the 20th century, the earliest fully documented jazz style emerged, centred in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1917 a group of white New Orleans musicians called The Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded a phonograph record and created a sensation overseas and in the United States. (The term Dixieland jazz eventually came to mean the New Orleans style as played by white musicians.)...

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