Jazz
Jazz has become one of the most predominant and celebrated music channels across the world. This particular sound of music has gained momentum over the years and has become a legend in the annals of music. Jazz originated from America and gained momentum in Europe during the late 1930’s. The African American communities are the real creators and harbingers for the popularity and expansion of jazz. Jazz owes its magnificent history to the work and dedication of the African American communities that dwelt in the southern states during the beginning of the 20th century.  The communities created a music that deciphered and cultivated their cultural and social stance during that particular decade. Jazz was the hallmark of their perspirations, dreams, ambitions, objectives and the only mechanism of communicating their innermost feelings.  The southern community utilized this particular form of music to express the true colors. And today, Jazz is now expanded into different life forms. 
Jazz like many of other music avenues has changed over the course of the last century.  It has magnified its instruments and added new and talented musicians to its list. Traditional jazz had started out as simple and delicate blue notes and later on improvised into swing notes and poly-rhythms. Many of the classic jazz singers have also used their mellifluous voices to enhance and create color to jazz. Jazz is also one of the most classic music avenues that has revolutionized different generations of people and become one of the most listened to tunes of the heart and soul.
Singers have also developed and honed the principles and foundations of creating jazz music.  Different jazz architects have graced the scenes and given birth to a magnitude of different mechanisms and avenues associated with playing jazz.  The Word jazz itself originated as a slang term that was used in the western coast of United States for this bizarre and emerging music venue. Jazz was then coined into a terminology in the year 1915.
But in its true spirit, jazz is a highly complex and unfathomable sea of opportunity and diversions. It can be classified as an improvised dialect that has given meaning and expression to the African American communities that were a part of the slave culture. The key player in jazz is the skilled performer who is demonstrating his or her art and talent. The immortality of this music lies in the hands of the musician. The musician can interpret tunes in different shades and alter melodies, harmonies, and compositions. These all came under the umbrella of the creativity associated with jazz.

Development of Jazz
Jazz has now emerged into a variety of different dialects and mediums over the last decade. It has also introduced a variety of different sub categories of jazz. Jazz also has been segregated by regions and cultural awareness. The era created by the Dixieland culture became a hit and introduced the New Orleans mentality into the lyrics and established the city as the founders of Jazz.
Then came the turning point in terms of the movement and dance sequences associated with this music extravaganza. Jazz brought to life swing and bebop dance and created a significant love for the dance and its music. People across the nation enjoyed jazz and danced to its tunes all night long in the up and coming jazz clubs. Then came the Latin jazz craze that placed Jazz as one of the most dynamic and robust musical avenues of all times. African, Cuban, and Brazilian jazz all come under the Latin Jazz fusion.
Morton published "Jelly Roll Blues" in 1915 which later on became the first jazz work in print.

Another development in Jazz was the creation of soul jazz. Soul jazz was the amalgamation of blues, gospel and rhythmic blues. Soul Jazz has been known to be one of the most aspiring jazz modules of all times. Jimmy McGriff and Jimmy Smith have also elevated this particular music style.

Another dynamic and hybrid form of Jazz started in the late 1960’s labeled as the jazz fusion. Two influential fusion groups, Weather Report and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, were formed and developed the theme and dynamics of jazz. Electric bass, electric piano and the synthesizers were used to create the sounds of jazz fusion. Mile Davis again was one of the pioneers of the music saga and was followed by our talented members. Guitarists Larry Coryell and John McLaughlin, Frank Zappa, saxophonist Wayne Shorter, and bassists Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke have all remarkable contributions to the expansion and exposure of the masses to jazz fusion.

European jazz
Jazz owes it success and exposure in Europe to the Quintette du Hot Club de France which began in 1934 in the hustling and bustling streets of France. Another element that boosted the jazz craze was the legendary guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt. He is known as the founder of gypsy jazz.

Jazz Legends
Bob Crosby's Bobcats, Max Kaminsky, Eddie Condon, and Wild Bill Davison are some of the legends that have graced the scene and gave a new meaning to the music of Jazz. Louis Armstrong's Allstars band became a leading ensemble and become trend setters in the annals of jazz music. The most influential bebop musicians included saxophonist Charlie Parker, pianists Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown, tenor sax player Lester Young, and drummer Max Roach. All of them have earned their recognition due to their exemplary style of music. Mile Davis is revered as the man who introduced the world to jazz. He was able to fascinate millions by his music and is now revered to as the father of Jazz. His albums have sold millions and made him the eternal icon of jazz. Miles Davis recorded the best selling jazz album of all time in the modal framework: Kind of Blue, an exploration of the possibilities of modal jazz. Other innovators in this style include John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock. John Coltrane is also considered the second best jazz musician in the history being beat by Miles Davis.
Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Stan Getz and the Modern Jazz Quartet modernized jazz into a cool and light form. Cool jazz was coined and gained momentum soon after these musicians become international celebrities.