Jazz 6 Musicians Who Shaped Modern Jazz Jazz is a type of music characterized by syncopation, rubato, usually heavily accented rhythms, dissonances and individualized melodic variations. It also utilizes chords such as the minor-major seventh (also referred to as an mD7). The defining Cool masterpiece features six of pianist Dave…
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When Jazz Was King Minister, activist, civil rights leader — and jazz lover. King penned the forward for the first Berlin jazz festival in 1964. Jazz emerged as a distinct musical style when uptown musicians began to improvise blues and other roots music over the earthier vernacular dance styles popular…
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