I'm a huge fan of Jazz! It's an awesome music genre with cool African-American roots which is what I love about it!
Jazz is fantastic, although it seems to have fallen from popularity since the 50's, where rock and roll took over.
Yeaha and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries it developed into blues and ragtime too.
Modern Jazz appears to be more inspired by those evolutions than the original Jazz that was prevalent in the 1920's
Yeah it seems like it. I like how all the musical styles it's connected to lead to African-American and European-American. Another awesome thing is it's evolved into performance as well!
A Personal favorite genre of mine is where jazz instruments were introduced back into Rock and Roll and became Ska.
That's nice too! Originally it was characterized by swing and blue notes for example, response vocals and polyrhythms but of course all that evolved with time too.