JAZZ-DECOUVERTE.NET

While it has never died off, jazz has been through a number of revivals that have transformed it. The classic jazz of New Orleans has grown branches and been revived several times. Hot jazz is one of the earliest off-shoots of the original classic jazz. Dixieland is a revival form of classic jazz as it was originally played but with a modern style. Mainstream jazz is both an off-shoot of classic jazz as well as a revival of swing... The music known today as jazz has gone through many different changes in the last two centuries. Begun as an off-shoot of ragtime in the late 1800's, it traces its roots back to the end of that century.