Jazz MP3 Download – Free Jazz Classics
Jazz began in New Orleans and grew into swing, bebop, cool jazz and many other styles built on improvisation. Below you will find well-known jazz recordings. Tap a track to preview it and download the MP3.
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Jazz was born in New Orleans in the early 20th century, mixing blues, ragtime and brass band music with a focus on improvisation: players state a melody, then solo over its chord changes. The style kept reinventing itself, from big-band swing in the 1930s and fast, complex bebop in the 1940s to cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, fusion and today's crossovers with hip hop and electronic music.
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Count Basie defined the early decades. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie built bebop, Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue" remains one of the best-selling jazz albums, and John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and the Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five" are essential listening. Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone set the standard for vocal jazz.
Jazz standards have been recorded many times by different players, so the performer is the most important part of your search. Type "Ella Fitzgerald Summertime" or "Miles Davis So What" instead of the title alone. A single track usually converts fine, but full concerts over 30 minutes do not. Preview the opening bars, then press Download for your jazz mp3 download.
