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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.
That Funny Jas Band From Dixieland, 1916 sheet music cover. Alternative spellings such as jass, jas and even jasz were seen until 1918. The origin of the word jazz is one of the most sought-after word origins in modern American English. The word's intrinsic interest â the American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century â has resulted in considerable research and its history is well documented.