Jazz | Definition, History, Musicians, & Facts | Britannica
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jazz, musical form, often improvisational, developed by African Americans and influenced by bot…Any attempt to arrive at a precise, all-encompassing definition of jazz is probably futile. Jazz has been, from its very beginnings at the turn of the 20th century, a constantly evolving, expanding, changing music, passing through several distinctive phases of development; a definition that mi… Jazz, in fact, is not—and never has been—an entirely composed, predetermined music, nor is i…Most early classical composers (such as Aaron Copland, John Alden Carpenter—and even Igor Stravinsky, who became smitten with jazz) were drawn to its instrumental sounds and timbres, the unusual effects and inflections of jazz playing (brass mutes, glissandos, scoops, bends, and stri… Published: Jul 20, 1998
jazz, musical form, often improvisational, developed by African Americans and influenced by bot…Any attempt to arrive at a precise, all-encompassing definition of jazz is probably futile. Jazz has been, from its very beginnings at the turn of the 20th century, a constantly evolving, expanding, changing music, passing through several distinctive phases of development; a definition that mi…
Jazz, in fact, is not—and never has been—an entirely composed, predetermined music, nor is i…Most early classical composers (such as Aaron Copland, John Alden Carpenter—and even Igor Stravinsky, who became smitten with jazz) were drawn to its instrumental sounds and timbres, the unusual effects and inflections of jazz playing (brass mutes, glissandos, scoops, bends, and stri…
Published: Jul 20, 1998
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