Interest in Joplin and ragtime was stimulated in the 1970s by the use of his music in the Academy Award-winning score to the film The Sting. Duke Ellington had an enormous impact on the popular music of the late 20th century. Among his more than two thousand songs are such hits as "In A Sentimental Mood," "Sophisticated Lady," "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good," and "I'm Beginning To See The Light...
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Today his recordings remain among the most popular jazz of the big-band era. The extent of Ellington's innovations helped to redefine the various forms in which he worked. He synthesized many of the elements of American music ? the minstrel song, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley tunes, and the blues. John William Coltrane, nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer...
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The history ofJazz In 1899, a classically trained young pianist from Missuri named Scott Joplin published the first of many Ragtime compositions that would come to shape the music of a nation...	2 / 338
Jazz Jazz dance began as the popular dance moves of the early 1900's. Most of the music that was played was Jazz and the steps just fit with the sounds. Jazz dance is an American tradition, it reflects to the speed of American's and there life styles more then any other type of dance...	1 / 269
HISTORY OF JAZZ Perhaps the broader definition of jazz, such as the one that would include the blues influence as well as those who shared our understanding of the art form, even if they did not perform it, would be the most useful historical approach...	2 / 367
Jazz: A History The second generations of Jazz musicians were some like Joe "King" Oliver, Kid Ory, and Jelly Roll Morton. These people formed a small band and started to reshape the way the original Jazz music was played...	3 / 727