Jazz is about spontaneity. That usually means improvising solos, the art of playing (to a greater or lesser extent) without written-out, arranged parts.

In fiction, jazz soundtracks, often slowed down or played in a minor key, can add an air of creepiness that often comes through association with a villain.

The Jazz Singer, a 1927 musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and released by Warner Bros., tells the story of Jakie Rabinowitz (Al Jolson), ...

It mainly boils down to combining the harmony and improvisation of jazz with Rock, Funk, R&B and pop music.

John Coltrane. For a while, he had the greatest quartet in jazz: himself, McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums.

All That Jazz (1979) is Bob Fosse's gimlet-eyed take on an especially hectic moment in his creative life: the period in the mid-'70s when he was directing …

Jazz rap, or jazz hip-hop, is a fusion genre that developed in the late 1980s and early 90s. As the name implies, It fused the beats of hip-hop with the …

Jazz is a very broad category that encompasses a ton of styles, but most people only recognize the type that emphasizes brass and piano.

Louis Armstrong: A massively influential jazz musician, played the trumpet and cornet, and engaged in a fifty-year career in jazz. He is considered the Trope ...

Jazz tends to be a free-flowing and improvisational style of music, which can remind people of the irregular sounds of nature.