Jazz: Whats Next

“What’s next?” an article by John Szwed raises a lot of questions in my mind really to do with preserving the culture and traditions associated withJazz. Music that came out in that era is a symbol of cruelty faced by blackpeople. It’s an expression of people who were weak, poor and were inpain. Now in today’s world we can transcribe their solos and play everynote that they played but what about the state of mind they were in. Have we seen the hard time those guys had to experience? No, then how can we play the music like them. Recordings made during the early days is one of the most important source which tells the sound of early jazz and help musicians to do a study on them. Clearly jazz musicians of today’s world improvise on tunes made few decades ago.” 1Jazz can never repeat its past nor escapes it, it constantly adds and modifies everything that has gone before”. To me, the most important characteristic of jazz is to change, to modify, to improvise, to alter and express. Another important characteristic of jazz is to be innovative, break rules, do some thing new and what is weird is good. Humans always look for change and there is always the next step. There has been no looking back ever since human existence. Jazz will constantly modify itself, (2"which is quite clear from the twists and turns taken through out its short life) may be now, by making use of modern technologies..!“3Such a music cheerfully escapes definition and prognostication”.

Bibliography:
Szwed, John F.2000. Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to learning and loving Jazz. New York:
Hyperion. Chapter 31. “ Whats Next?” pp 289-292

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Black America. John F. Szwed. Basic books Inc. New York, NY. 1970
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Lerner Murray 2004, A Different Kind of Blue . Miles Electric - DVD Commentry
1 Szwed, John F.2000. Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to learning and loving Jazz. New York: Hyperion.
Chapter 31. “ Whats Next?” pp 289-292
2 Szwed, John F.2000. Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to learning and loving Jazz. New York: Hyperion.
Chapter 31. “ Whats Next?” pp 289-292
3 Szwed, John F.2000. Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to learning and loving Jazz. New York: Hyperion.
Chapter 31. “ Whats Next?” pp 289-292