dance interest roots voice south instrument form music Jazz, the (1) of the American Negro, first became recognizable as a separate (2) of music towards the end of the 19th century in New Orleans, a city in the (3) of the United States of America. About 1910 dance musicians began using jazz phrases and today most (4) music includes many such phrases. During the last ten years jazz has enjoyed a tremendous revival of (5) . The instruments used were trumpets, clarinet, guitar, and drums. In the early days the piano was added and then saxophones and later still other (6) were introduced into jazz bands. The fundamentals of jazz are: (a) an instrumental style based on the imitation of the human (7) ; (b) a melodic style where major and minor keys are often undetermined; (c) a rhythm which has its (8) in Africa; (d) improvisation, where each musician varies the melody from performance to performance.