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In Reply to: RE: Jazz is a thing musicians "do". In defining it, they lose track of what it is (or was)... posted by beach cruiser on June 02, 2025 at 18:41:03
It's possible to "jazz up" any kind of music. Jazz might be more of an attitude than a style, and this "improvisational attitude" might be derived from the expressionistic attitudes displayed in places like Negro prayer meetings predating the display of "Jazz" in popular music...Hence, the scripture quotation.
Some would insist on linking the Jazz spirit to the rising popularity of syncopation in music during the late 19th/early 20th, but I do not. Because, syncopation galore can be found in the music of J.S. Bach. Nobody thought about "jazzing it up" back in Bach's day, as far as we know (at least not publicly).
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