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The 24 pages that link to New Orleans jazz, each with the reason it gives.

• JazzBroader topic: New Orleans was a formative center for jazz, and the style preserves features of its early ensemble practice.

• Swing musicNarrower topic: Its ensemble practices helped shape the jazz traditions from which swing developed.

• Big bandRelated: Its smaller ensemble traditions preceded the large, arranged jazz bands.

• New OrleansBroader topic: The city’s musical identity grew from Black communities and local performance traditions.

• Louis ArmstrongNarrower topic: Armstrong’s early musical environment grew from the city’s brass-band, blues, and ensemble traditions.

• Benny GoodmanCompared with: Its small-group traditions differ from the arranged, section-based sound of Goodman’s swing orchestra.

• Drum kitBroader topic: Its ensemble drummers combined functions that had often been divided among several players.

• Scat singingNarrower topic: Scat grew within jazz's culture of improvisation and ensemble exchange.

• Jazz educationBroader topic: Its history anchors many accounts of the musical tradition taught in jazz courses.

• Jazz harmonyBroader topic: Its ensemble practice joined blues materials with emerging jazz chordal habits.

• Collective improvisationBroader topic: Its polyphonic ensemble texture is an early model of several simultaneous improvising lines.

• Jelly Roll MortonNarrower topic: Morton’s music grew from this scene and helped define its small-group sound.

• Chicago jazzNarrower topic: Chicago’s early players carried this ensemble tradition north and reshaped it.

• Jazz drummingNarrower topic: Its ensemble music established early settings for jazz percussion and collective rhythm.

• King OliverNarrower topic: Oliver’s New Orleans playing grew from this style and helped carry it into Chicago.

• Sidney BechetNarrower topic: Bechet’s solo lines grew from the rhythmic drive and collective improvisation of this tradition.

• Original Dixieland Jass BandNarrower topic: The band adapted this city’s ensemble style before taking it to national audiences.

• Buddy BoldenNarrower topic: Bolden’s band belonged to the city’s early jazz formation.

• Wynton MarsalisRelated: Marsalis draws on the city’s jazz heritage and has promoted its history.

• Lonnie DoneganRelated: Donegan entered music through British bands devoted to this early jazz tradition.

• The Boswell SistersNarrower topic: The sisters grew up in New Orleans, where jazz sounds informed their musical vocabulary.

• When the Saints Go Marching InNarrower topic: The song became one of the tradition's most recognizable repertoire pieces.

• Dixieland jazzNarrower topic: Dixieland grew from the city’s early jazz traditions and is often associated with them.

• Pete MaravichRelated: Maravich became the franchise’s leading star during its New Orleans years.