New Orleans Jazz-Blues
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New Orleans Jazz-Blues joins blues melody and forms to collective improvisation, brass-band phrasing, clarinet lines, tailgate trombone, cornet or trumpet leads, and ragtime-derived swing. The sound is earthy and polyphonic: blues feeling inside ensemble counterpoint rather than the later soloist-over-rhythm-section model.
History
The style grew from New Orleans early jazz, brass bands, parade music, blues singers, Storyville entertainment, and Creole/African American dance traditions. King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Kid Ory, Bunk Johnson, and later Preservation Hall Jazz Band kept blues central to the city’s jazz language through recordings, revivals, and repertory bands. New Orleans Jazz-Blues influenced swing, traditional jazz revival, brass blues, New Orleans R&B, and modern street-band approaches to bluesy improvisation.
Defining artists
Essential listening
Sources
- Gunther Schuller, Early Jazz
- Samuel Charters, Jazz: New Orleans
- Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans
- AllMusic