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The executant as the composer The jazz scale Develop- ment of the spiritual Improvised instru- ments of the early days The blues as a test of a jazz performer Roles. retains its validity only within the jazz context , so that to describe ...
The executant as the composer The jazz scale Develop- ment of the spiritual Improvised instru- ments of the early days The blues as a test of a jazz performer Roles. retains its validity only within the jazz context , so that to describe ...
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... jazz Supposed origin of the word jazz The spread of jazz. born into a religious family the head of which was a minister of the Abyssinian Baptist Church and who re- garded jazz , to quote his son , " as music from the devil's workshop ...
... jazz Supposed origin of the word jazz The spread of jazz. born into a religious family the head of which was a minister of the Abyssinian Baptist Church and who re- garded jazz , to quote his son , " as music from the devil's workshop ...
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... Jazz saxophone playing was thus immeasurably enriched . His other achievement was to demonstrate a new way of building an improvised solo , by using little- used chords , such as the minor sixth , by showing how silence could help a ...
... Jazz saxophone playing was thus immeasurably enriched . His other achievement was to demonstrate a new way of building an improvised solo , by using little- used chords , such as the minor sixth , by showing how silence could help a ...
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