User:OnBeyondZebrax/sandbox/New Orleans jazz

Dixieland combined earlier brass band marches, French Quadrilles, biguine, ragtime, and blues with collective, polyphonic improvisation. The "standard" band consists of a "front line" of trumpet (or cornet), trombone, and clarinet, with a "rhythm section" of at least two of the following instruments: guitar or banjo, string bass or tuba, piano, and drums. The Dixieland sound is created when one instrument (usually the trumpet) plays the melody or a variation on it, and the other instruments improvise around that melody. This creates a more polyphonic sound than the heavily arranged big band sound of the 1930s or the unison melody of bebop in the 1940s. The swing era of the 1930s led to the end of many Dixieland jazz musicians' careers. There was a revival of Dixieland in the late 1940s and 1950s. "Chicago style" is often applied to the sound of Chicago musicians who use the string bass instead of the tuba and the guitar instead of the banjo to play a faster-paced, swinging style that emphasized solos. The "West Coast revival" began in the late 1930s in San Francisco which used banjo and tuba. The Dutch 'Old-style jazz' was played trumpets, trombones and saxophones accompanied by a single clarinet, sousaphone and a section of Marching percussion usually including a washboard.