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Jazz is as American as apple pie. It is original music, created in America. Jazz is the most influential of all music styles in the 20th century. No other music can make that claim. What jazz is, is a mainly improvisational style of playing with syncopated rhythms laid down under the melody. It was created [...]
Jazz has been an influence in many artists work, from painting to other forms of music.
Joseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although Alan Lomax cites some examples of [...]