Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...People often talk about a "jazz influence" in the visual arts and literature. Does a jazz influence exist in other forms of creative expression...
...jazz people lean toward Post-Romantic Impressionists for classical inspiration. However, you always go farther back, always making a reference to Bach or Beethoven, where others cite Ravel or Debussy...
...that would be one of those things. As far as the white kids that are studying, that's always been the case. This has been 40 years now, it didn't just come up in the last 10 years. The question for a lot of kids who study jazz is a matter of content; not just that they are studying, but what are they studying? A lot of the information has been tainted, the kids are being taught things that are unfounded, untrue. It takes them farther away from their own identity, be they white or black...
...Well, I'm a classical musician also, I've played with many orchestras, so my experience with classical music might be more extensive than a lot of other jazz musicians. Bach's music is one of the great wonders of Western man. Like the Sistine Chapel or the works of Shakespeare. Some things touch on so many things at such a high level of craftsmanship th.at you just step back in awe and are just happy that you can understand it. That's one of the unimpeachable achievements in music. When you talk about Bach, sometimes you feel like...
...Jazz has permeated everything in America in the 20th century, in terms of the elevation of individual expression, and the service of the individual expression to a group experience. Movies are always based on that. There's an irreverence for material, but a reverence for quick wits and thinking. There is the whole question of the sophisticated country boy. Abraham Lincoln was an example. This guy off of a farm somewhere delivered the Gettysburg Address. These archetypes exist in our way of looking at things. Jazz is about a process of putting things together. There's no right or wrong...