The Essence of Jazz - A Composer's View

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: In this brief survey I do not want to go much into the thorny problems of the origins of jazz, or of whether it is European or African or both. Those questions have been exhaustively dealt with by scores of earlier commentators, without definite unassailable answers ever being produced. There seem t...