A style of early jazz music characterized by improvisation, fast tempos, and front-line horns playing the melody.
Named after 'Dixie,' associated with the American South (from the Mason-Dixon line). The jazz style originated in New Orleans in the early 1900s among musicians blending ragtime, blues, and European brass traditions.
Dixieland jazz was America's first original musical art form—created in New Orleans by a mix of Black and white musicians who shared a neighborhood and borrowed instruments from each other's cultures.
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