The following links are in English America's Jazz Heritage America's Jazz Heritage is a ten-year initiative to research, preserve, and present the history of jazz through exhibitions, performances, recordings, radio, publications, and educational programs at the Smithsonian and across the nation. Blues Learn about this form of music, it's roots, and some of the artists that played Blues. The JazzKids Music Program is a new approach to teaching children about music.
Children learn about jazz and classical music while using their eyes and their ears.
Jazz Online Online magazine brings you all you want to know about what's happening in Jazz. The music called Jazz was born sometime around 1895 in New Orleans. It combined elements of Ragtime, marching band music, and Blues. What differentiated Jazz from these earlier styles was the widespread use of improvisation, often by more than one player at a time. Jazz represented a break from Western musical traditions, where the composer wrote a piece of music on paper and the musicians then tried their best to play exactly what was in the score.