Modern jazz has incorporated these elements from both these songs, this shows how historical jazz has impacted modern jazz and its musical style.
During the late 1800s, Military marches and small bands created a style of jazz known as Ragtime. It is a style of music with accompaniments that have several accented notes combined with melodies that are highly syncopated. Piano is the main instrument used in Ragtime but it is also played by small bands with several combinations of instruments, this style became an early influence on jazz. In the early 1900s, Ragtime was played in many bars and clubs as it was starting to get very popular.
During the 1920s jazz was begging to be written down as sheet music as it started to get more complex. Combos made up of 3-5 musicians and big bands