NEW ORLEANS JAZZ

Dixieland music referred to as Hot Jazz, Early Jazz or New Orleans Jazz is a style of jazz music which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s. Its well known jazz standard songs from the Dixieland era, such as "Basin Street Blues" and "When the Saints Go Marching In" are known even to non-jazz fans. An early style of jazz that was developed in New Orleans is the earliest style of Jazz music. The style combined earlier brass marches, French Quadrilles, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. While instrumentation and size of bands can be very flexible the standard band consists of a front line of trumpet, trombone, and clarinet with a "rhythm section" of at least two of the following instruments, guitar or banjo, string bass, or tuba, piano and drums.