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RE: Jazz is a thing musicians "do".

Posted by peppy m. on June 2, 2025 at 21:34:04:
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).
After, during the "Classical" music era, more weight was given to improvisation but, for the most part, music was expected to be performed according to composer notation. A new type of musical freedom came into fashion after the "Romantic" era of classicism, during the "Jazz" era.
The pot had been bubbling for a while before "Jazz" music came into vogue, no doubt.