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The 98 pages that link to Jazz, each with the reason it gives.

• ImprovisationNarrower topic: Jazz developed improvisational practices within evolving musical and social traditions.

• Harlem RenaissanceNarrower topic: Harlem venues made jazz a central sound of the movement and a source of wider influence.

• SyncopationNarrower topic: Jazz musicians use syncopation to animate melodies, accompaniments, and improvisations.

• PolyrhythmNarrower topic: Jazz musicians use overlapping rhythmic groupings to vary pulse and phrasing.

• Drum kitNarrower topic: Jazz ensembles helped make the coordinated drum set central to popular music.

• Musical improvisationNarrower topic: Improvised solos and ensemble interaction are central practices in many jazz styles.

• SkaNarrower topic: Ska’s horn arrangements and phrasing draw strongly on jazz.

• George GershwinNarrower topic: Jazz rhythms and idioms shaped Gershwin's concert works and popular songs.

• Hard bopNarrower topic: Hard bop is a postwar style within jazz.

• SaxophoneNarrower topic: The saxophone became one of jazz’s defining melodic and improvisational voices.

• Jazz educationNarrower topic: The musical tradition whose history, techniques, and styles jazz education teaches.

• Blue Note RecordsNarrower topic: Blue Note’s catalog documents major developments in postwar jazz.

• Jelly Roll MortonNarrower topic: Morton’s work belongs to jazz’s formative period, before the genre’s later transformations.

• João GilbertoNarrower topic: Bossa nova’s international reception grew partly through its dialogue with jazz musicians.

• Western swingNarrower topic: Western swing adapts jazz improvisation and ensemble ideas to country dance music.

• Smooth jazzNarrower topic: Smooth jazz retains jazz phrasing and soloing while softening some of the tradition’s rhythmic and harmonic edge.

• Hugh MasekelaNarrower topic: Masekela drew on jazz while grounding his work in South African musical traditions.

• Jazz at Lincoln CenterNarrower topic: The organization’s history and purpose are inseparable from the broader history of jazz.

• Minton's PlayhouseNarrower topic: Minton’s is a distinct chapter in jazz’s ongoing history of musical invention.

• Nina SimoneNarrower topic: Jazz shaped Simone’s phrasing and early repertoire, but it cannot contain her full musical range.

• Tenor saxophoneNarrower topic: Jazz became the tenor saxophone's most prominent musical setting.

• Paul WhitemanNarrower topic: Whiteman’s reputation rests on popularizing music drawn from a tradition his orchestra did not originate.

• The Man with the Golden ArmNarrower topic: Jazz links Frankie’s drumming ambitions to the film’s score and nightclub world.

• Alto saxophoneNarrower topic: Jazz made the alto saxophone a prominent solo instrument.

• Lounge musicNarrower topic: Jazz supplies many of lounge music’s harmonic and performance conventions, though the styles are not identical.

• Original Dixieland Jass BandNarrower topic: The band’s record helped introduce the word and sound of jazz to mass audiences.

• VibraphoneNarrower topic: Jazz is the vibraphone’s best-known musical setting, especially for improvisation and sustained harmony.

• Buddy BoldenNarrower topic: Bolden is widely regarded as an early formative figure in jazz’s development.

• FlugelhornNarrower topic: Jazz made the flugelhorn a prominent solo voice beyond its earlier band roles.

• Fred MacMurrayNarrower topic: MacMurray played saxophone professionally before his acting career took off.

• Maple Leaf RagNarrower topic: The piece’s syncopated piano language belongs to a musical environment that influenced early jazz.

• Norman GranzNarrower topic: Granz helped present jazz as a major concert and recording art.

• Wynton MarsalisNarrower topic: Marsalis’s career is rooted in jazz performance, composition, and advocacy.

• Billy StrayhornNarrower topic: Strayhorn’s compositions entered a tradition in which performance and collective interpretation continually reshape works.

• James JamersonNarrower topic: Jamerson’s fluid lines drew on jazz bass vocabulary as well as R&B and gospel.

• James P. JohnsonNarrower topic: Stride became an early jazz piano tradition through which Johnson influenced the music’s development.

• James Reese EuropeNarrower topic: Europe’s bands helped audiences hear ensemble styles that preceded jazz’s national popularization.

• Keith JarrettNarrower topic: Jarrett’s career spans jazz ensembles, standards, and solo improvisation.

• Abdullah IbrahimNarrower topic: Ibrahim’s work reworks jazz improvisation through South African musical forms.

• Vigen DerderianNarrower topic: Vigen’s nickname invokes jazz, though it does not by itself define his full musical style.