Perhaps more important, the concerts help jazz begin to gain the public and private sponsorship it needs to be able to maintain its history.

Furthermore, jazz began to break down the barrier between performer and audience.

In the Netherlands jazz began around 1919 to 1921.

When the jazz finally began to die down, he walked to the docks and signed onto a freighter headed for Egypt.

From the middle of the 1990s, jazz began to come back to the club, first on Sundays, then two days a week.

With the arranger, jazz began to mature from its roots as an exclusively aural art form.

In the 1930s, jazz began to see its downturn and started to suffer.

At the time jazz, which had undergone the worst period in its history, was beginning to show a quickening pulse.

The early jazz periodical Down Beat begins to be published.

In the 1950s, jazz began to diversify into a number of new genres, spread out into many cities.