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Share this page. Jazz has been called America's classical music, and for good reason. Along with the blues, its forefather, it is one of the first truly indigenous musics to develop in America, yet its unpredictable, risky ventures into improvisation gave it critical cache with scholars that the blues lacked. At the outset, jazz was dance music, performed by swinging big bands.
A History of Jazz. The History of Swing Jazz. One of the most influential styles of jazz to emerge from the early half of the 20th century was known as âswing.â Swing Jazz quickly caught fire and spread amongst all racial demographics in the era leading up to World War II, and produced some of Americaâs most renowned musical figures and leaders.