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i spent about 4 years self-immersing myself in Jazz music, and the whole history of it and it's sonic evolution.
You thought the folkies were upset with Dylan for playing "electric rock n roll?" what I have read about the reactions to Charlie Parker blow that out the water!
where many music forms are based on the beat (ska as opposed to rocksteady as opposed to reggae) or repeated riffs (bluegrass, or blues, or rock n roll), Jazz music is based on the use of musical theory to improvise/compose while playing. This is what blew away Europeans who had never heard Bix Biederbeck or Ellington or people like Lester Young who blew their minds. This composition-on-the-fly is the true genius and originality behind that most American of art forms, Jazz music.
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