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A reference companion to the museum — curated topic sections that go deeper on the subjects behind the collection. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
Jazz Foundations
How the music works — improvisation and the jam session, the rhythm section and scat singing, plus the harmony, melody, and notation behind it.
6 entriesThe Sub-Genres
The many sounds of jazz — bebop and cool jazz, hard bop and smooth jazz, soul jazz, gypsy jazz, and the ragtime that came before.
7 entriesInstruments & Sound
The voices of the band — the saxophone and trumpet, the double bass and piano, the drum kit, and the shimmer of the vibraphone.
6 entriesHistory & Culture
Where jazz came from — New Orleans and the Harlem Renaissance, the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties, the Cotton Club, records, and festivals.
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