Marsalis family, american family, considered the ‘first family of jazz,’ who (particularly brothers wynton and branford) had a major impact on jazz in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.Jazz music, which was developed by african americans and was influenced by both african rhythms and european harmonic structure, first appeared at the turn of the 20th century and has since undergone …Jazz dance, any dance to jazz accompaniments, composed of a profusion of forms.Jazz dance paralleled the birth and spread of jazz itself from roots in black american society and was popularized …