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Jazz 101 Style
World/Ethnic Styles
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Ever since the birth of jazz in North America in the late 19th Century, the influence of various
international cultures has been vital to the music's development. It is arguable that all jazz
devolves from traditional African music, and such early pioneers as Jelly Roll Morton showed
a willingness to broaden this base by incorporating Caribbean and Latin-American influences. In
the 1940s, Dizzy Gillespie's seminal big band explored elements of Cuban folk music and
helped give birth to Afro-Cuban jazz, or "cubop." With the advent of the civil rights movement in the
1960s, artists such as John Coltrane and Don Cherry began developing a distinctly pan-cultural
approach to jazz, exploring African and Middle-Eastern influences and performing with musicians
from other countries, making jazz an ideal vehicle for displaying the interconnection of all the
world's folk music. The bossa nova rhythms of Brazil had a huge impact on the jazz world of the
1960s, and today such diverse elements as salsa, tango and reggae music continue to expand and
enrich the jazz tradition.
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Traditional
