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The first music called jazz originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States around the start of the 20th century. Jazz uses blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation, and blends African American musical styles with Western music technique and theory. Jazz musician and teacher Bill Evans, described jazz as more than just a musical genre but a process of making music whereby, "one minutes music is made in one minute's time". This is a key difference to composed music where there is less spontaneous creation of music and only limited space for the artist's own interpretation. (more)
Free jazz is a movement of jazz music developed in the 1950s and 1960s by artists such as Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Joe Harriott, Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon, Paul Bley, and Sun Ra. Some of the best known examples are the later works of John Coltrane. Though the music produced by these players varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the expressive possibilities of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz; each in his own way, free jazz musicians attempted to break down or extend the conventions of jazz, often by discarding hitherto invariable features of jazz such as fixed chord changes or tempos.
Although today "free jazz" is the generally used term, it has held many other names. In the 1960s, the loosely-defined movement was sometimes called "Energy Music" or "The New Thing". Free-jazz players were either said to be playing "outside" or "out" (as opposed to "inside"--conventionally), and the word became a favorite one among musicians and record labels: albums from this period include Outward Bound, Out There, Out to Lunch (all by Dolphy), Out Front (Jaki Byard), and Destination Out (Jackie McLean).
While free jazz is most often associated with the era of its birth, many musicians — including Ken Vandermark, William Parker, John Zorn, Paal Nilssen-Love and George Lewis — have kept the style alive to the present day, continuing its development as a jazz idiom. In Europe the style was further extended by players such as Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann and Evan Parker into an idiom that came to be called "free improvisation." (more)
Italian jazz. James Reese Europe’s military concerts in France in World War I in 1919 are claimed to have introduced Europeans to a new, "syncopated" music from America. Yet, Italians had an even earlier taste of a new music from across the Atlantic when a group of "Creole" singers and dancers, billed as the "creators of the cakewalk" performed at the Eden Theater in Milan in 1904. The first real Italian jazz orchestras, however, were formed during 1920s by musicians such as Arturo Agazzi with his Syncopated Orchestra and enjoyed immediate success. In spite of the anti-American cultural policies of the Fascist regime during the 1930s, American jazz remained popular. (Even Romano Mussolini, Benito's son, was a great jazz fan and then prominent jazz pianist.) Also, in 1935, American jazz great Louis Armstrong toured Italy with great success. (more)
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- ...that Crossover Jazz retains an emphasis on improvisation but attempts to make that improvisation commercially successful by couching it in a variety of marketable formats?
- ...that Loose Tubes were called "...the best instrumentalist of their generation (...) the most important band to appear on the British jazz scene" by Time Out?
- ...that The Sound of Jazz was a landmark television program that was part of CBS's Seven Lively Arts series?
- ...that Dakota Staton's success lead her to win Down Beat magazine's "Most Promising New Comer" award in 1955?
- "By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."
- "Jazz is the false liquidation of art—instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture."
- Theodor Adorno, quoted in The Sociology of Rock by Simon Frith, 1978. ISBN 0094602204.
- "Jazz is something Negroes invented, and it said the most profound things—not only about us and the way we look at things, but about what modern democratic life is really about. It is the nobility of the race put into sound ... jazz has all the elements, from the spare and penetrating to the complex and enveloping. It is the hardest music to play that I know of, and it is the highest rendition of individual emotion in the history of Western music."
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- April 3: The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, a world prominent school of jazz, will move from Los Angeles to New Orleans (BBC News)
- March 31: The line up for the 50th Monterey Jazz Festival has been announced. (Jazz News)
- March 28: Jazz clarinetist, Tony Scott has died at the age of 85 in Rome. His memorial service was held at 15:00 UTC on April 1. (All About Jazz)
- March 24: UK jazz radio station theJazz will include presenters from April 6, 2007. (Radio Today)
- March 19: Miles Davis is to be portrayed by actor Don Cheadle in a biopic. The film has not yet gone into production. (JazzTimes)
- February 27: British jazz and blues singer George Melly has been diagnosed with dementia. (BBC News)
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