According to Dorsey (2001) he believes that black music stems from Africa, …show more content…
Though there has been great debate about a standard definition of jazz, Wheaton (1994) believes it “can be defined as a combination of improvisatory styles with western European form and harmony” (p. 90) In other words, despite jazz’s African roots, it withal has many European features such as, internal structure, composition, and harmony. (Dorsey, 2001). Jazz categories include Dixieland, swing, bop, cool jazz, hard bop, free jazz, Third Stream, jazz-rock, and fusion (Wheaton, 1994). The first jazz-style to receive apperception as a fine art was bebop, which is mainly instrumental and was composed by solemn ebony jazz musicians who experimented with incipient conceptions in the tardy night jam sessions (Wheaton, 1994). Bebop evolved in the 1940s and was said to have been created by blacks in a way that whites could not copy (Gerard,