ABC Jazz

ABC Jazz live broadcasting from Australia. ABC Jazz builds on the great reputation ABC Radio has for specialist jazz programming and will appeal to fans and musicians alike. ABC Jazz is an important part of the Australian jazz community and features releases from the best jazz musicians in the country, and from around the world. It also includes original jazz performances recorded for ABC programs such as ABC Classic FM Jazz track and Jazz Up Late.

Jazz is a music genre that originated from African-American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz spans a period of over a hundred years, encompassing a very wide range of music, making it difficult to define. Jazz makes heavy use of improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swung note, as well as aspects of European harmony, American popular music, the brass band tradition, and African musical elements such as blue notes and African-American styles such as ragtime.

ABC Jazz