The highly danceable swing jazz - think Benny Goodman, “ Sing, Sing, Sing” - dominated American popular music from roughly 1935–1945. Many different threads of jazz music grew from this base. Duke Ellington, “ East St Louis Toodle-Oo” (1926).Louis Armstrong, “ Heebie Jeebies” (1926).Original Dixieland Jass Band, “ Dixie Jass Band One-Step” (1917).Jelly Roll Morton, “ Jerry Roll Blues” (published 1915, recorded later) 2.The first jazz recordings came a bit later. Depending on what you want to count as “jazz,” its origins date to somewhere from 1890–1915. Jazz music emerged in the American South as a blend of ragtime, blues, spirituals, brass band music, and other influences.
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Update : Albums I’ve listened to more recently, from all style categories, are in this Google doc, since I don’t have time to add them here. Instead, they are some of the best albums of art jazz that (1) are plausibly accessible to many new listeners, and that (2) are available on Spotify. Remember, these are not the “best” albums of art jazz. Here is a Spotify playlist of all the bolded albums listed below (in the main text, not those in the footnotes), in chronological order. Some of the Spotify links point to custom playlists I made, since many of the original albums that aren’t (directly) available on Spotify are reconstructable entirely from later compilation albums that are on Spotify. When I couldn’t find an album on Spotify or YouTube, I linked to another source instead. While reading, I recommend you Ctrl+click (Cmd+click on Mac) to open those links in a new browser tab so you can hear the music play for a bit before reading further. Note: This guide links to lots of music on YouTube or Spotify: wherever the music is available. Paul Bley’s Closer) are instead credited below to their primary composer (Carla Bley, in the case of Closer). My focus on composers also means that many albums credited to a performer (e.g. Instead I focus on novel jazz compositions that push the art of jazz composition forward in some way. Thus, many famous albums don’t appear in this guide because they are mostly filled with covers. I should also mention that while most jazz fans think mostly about jazz performers, I think mostly about jazz composers. (So, no Anthony Braxton or Borbetomagus.)
Scaruffi’s history of jazz thus focuses on the development of art jazz since ~1960. My contribution here is to focus on an even smaller set of pieces: art jazz since 1960 that is plausibly accessible to many new listeners. …It is hard to name Armstrong in the same sentence with Mozart or Stravinsky, but not difficult at all to mention Ornette Coleman or Anthony Braxton with those heavy-weights of classical music. Most books on the history of jazz music, even the ones published very recently… tend to devote 80–90% of the pages to jazz before the Sixties, and then to quickly summarize (with countless omissions) the last 40 years… The paradox, of course, is that a lot more has happened “since” the 1960s than “until” the 1960s… by far, the greatest contributions of jazz to the history of humankind came in the second half of the century, for example with composers (repeat: composers) such as Charlie Mingus, Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane. Unfortunately, there are few guides to modern art jazz that are aimed at the beginner. The best guide I know of is by Piero Scaruffi, who rightly complains: “Art jazz,” as I use the term, refers to that subset of jazz music that, rather than faithfully savoring the old styles, or re-interpreting old standards, tries to express new musical ideas, a la most modern classical music. See also: A beginner’s guide to modern classical music.
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