Editing Jazz (section)

===Beginnings of European jazz===
[[File:Django Reinhardt and Duke Ellington (Gottlieb).jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Django Reinhardt]] and [[Duke Ellington]]. Reinhardt, a guitarist, was key in shaping European jazz with his creation of gypsy jazz, blending American swing, French "musette" music, and Eastern European folk, especially in 1946.]]

As only a limited number of American jazz records were released in Europe, European jazz traces many of its roots to American artists such as James Reese Europe, Paul Whiteman, and [[Lonnie Johnson (musician)|Lonnie Johnson]], who visited Europe during and after World War I. It was their live performances which inspired European audiences' interest in jazz, as well as the interest in all things American (and therefore exotic) which accompanied the economic and political woes of Europe during this time.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Wynn |editor-first1=Neil A.|title=Cross the Water Blues: African American music in Europe |url=https://archive.org/details/crosswaterbluesa00wynn |url-access=limited |date=2007 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |location=Jackson, MS |isbn=978-1-6047-3546-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/crosswaterbluesa00wynn/page/n79 67] |edition=1}}</ref> The beginnings of a distinct European style of jazz began to emerge in this interwar period.

British jazz began with a [[Original Dixieland Jass Band#London tour|tour by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1919]]. In 1926, [[Fred Elizalde]] and His Cambridge Undergraduates began broadcasting on the BBC. Thereafter jazz became an important element in many leading dance orchestras, and jazz instrumentalists became numerous.<ref name="Godolt">{{cite book |last1=Godbolt |first1=Jim |title=A History of Jazz in Britain 1919–1950 |date=2010 |publisher=Northway |location=London |isbn=978-0-9557-8881-9 |edition=4th}}</ref>

This style entered full swing in France with the [[Quintette du Hot Club de France]], which began in 1934. Much of this French jazz was a combination of African-American jazz and the symphonic styles in which French musicians were well-trained; in this, it is easy to see the inspiration taken from Paul Whiteman since his style was also a fusion of the two.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Jackson | first=Jeffrey |title=Making Jazz French: The Reception of Jazz Music in Paris, 1927–1934 |journal=[[French Historical Studies]]| year=2002 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=149–170 |doi=10.1215/00161071-25-1-149 | s2cid=161520728}}</ref> Belgian guitarist [[Django Reinhardt]] popularized [[gypsy jazz]], a mix of 1930s American swing, French dance hall "[[Bal-musette|musette]]", and Eastern European folk with a languid, seductive feel; the main instruments were steel stringed guitar, violin, and double bass. Solos pass from one player to another as guitar and bass form the rhythm section. Some researchers believe [[Eddie Lang]] and [[Joe Venuti]] pioneered the guitar-violin partnership characteristic of the genre,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.redhotjazz.com/edlango.html |title=Ed Lang and his Orchestra |access-date=March 28, 2008 |website=redhotjazz.com |archive-date=April 10, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410160536/http://www.redhotjazz.com/edlango.html }}</ref> which was brought to France after they had been heard live or on [[Okeh Records]] in the late 1920s.<ref>{{cite book |first=Bill |last=Crow |title=Jazz Anecdotes |url=https://archive.org/details/jazzanecdotes0000crow |url-access=registration |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |date=1990}}</ref>