[PDF] JAZZ, ROCK ET COUNTRY

What is the difference between jazz and country music?

Jazz is primarily an instrumental music with more complex harmonic structures. Country often reflects a rural experience and jazz is more urban. Country is one of the most popular genres of music while jazz has a small, niche audience. But despite these differences, jazz and country share some similar roots.

What is jazz-rock idiom?

The jazz-rock idiom gained one of the largest jazz audiences since the swing era ended in the mid-1940s. The style was also known as crossover because sales of the music crossed over from the jazz market to the popular music market.

Who was the first jazz musician to embrace country music?

ButRollins was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace country music so emphatically. It has taken a long time, but country music is now winning grudging acceptance from the jazz world. One of 2008’s best-selling jazz releases was the Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson collaboration, Two Men With the Blues (Blue Note).

When did jazz & country become popular?

Both developed as folk music in the American South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, growing from sounds and styles of various immigrant cultures and African traditions. Jazz and country became identifiable genres after World War One with the rise of phonograph records and the radio boom of the 1920s.