[Dixielandjazz] John Edward Hasse on "Jazz"

[Marek Boym]

And Charlie Parker said that bebop was not a love child of jazz.
Cheers

On 4 March 2012 02:10, Phil O'Rourke <philor at webone.com.au> wrote:
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>
> On 3/03/2012 6:38 AM, Stephen G Barbone wrote:
>>
>> Smithsonian Magazine has an "Ask Smithsonian" page. One of the questions
>> asked on this page in the March Issue was:
>>
>> Question: "Jazz from the 1920s sounds nothing like jazz today. Why do we
>> use 'jazz' for such different music?"
>>
>> Answer: "The many disparate styles of jazz are linked by melodies with
>> bent or 'blue' notes, call-and-response patterns, off beat and syncopated
>> rhythms, and, finally, improvisation - each time a jazz band plays a piece,
>> it sounds fresh."
>>
>> John Edward Hasse, Curator of American Music
>> National Museum of American History.
>>
>> Any comments?
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>
> I remember reading somewhere years ago that in an interview either Dizzy
> Gillespie or Miles Davis said emphatically "We don't play jazz. We play
> bop!"
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> Phil O'Rourke
> Australia
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