### art | music:

Jazz
* also consists of jazz instruments like the piano, saxophone, drums, bass and trumpets
  - involves a particular way of interacting with a musical starting point
  - plays a role, and politics and specifically the state of Argentina and the state of exile
* brings in dissonance and minor chords-a different way of making music.
* broad stream of musical styles which originated in America.
* can provide accounting for individual properties or groups of properties.
* celebrates the cultural roots that gave birth to a national music treasure.
* celebration of a music that is uniquely American.
* combines European and African styles of music
  - elements of African music with elements of Western European music
* contemporary form of dance accompanied by music of a faster tempo.
* form of music.
* happens the last week of school, after seniors have been dismissed but before they graduate.
* has a variety of forms, even today
  - many forms
  - more than one definition, and jazz has different definitions to different people
  - much in common with traditional African drumming, which also speaks
* highly syncopated musical style.
* involves cooperation - It community that performs and receives jazz
  - interpretation and improvisation, especially in jazz clubs
* is America's classical music
  - musical contribution to the world
  - unique contribution to the world of art music
  - American music characterized by improvisation, and ensemble playing among other things
  - Black music, played and sung best by Black musicians
* is about challenging musical traditions and expectations
  - freedom, vision, imagination, inspiration, improvisation and chops
  - sound that has undergone dramatic change over the century
  - telling stories in music and giving others leeway to tell their own stories
* is accepted as a glimmer in the millennial dawn
  - the music of freedom
* is also a rich tradition of bountiful heritage
  - term of sexual connotation, and scat basically means shit
  - an older form of music although it it relatively more modern than classical
  - an American art form whose origin is in the traditional music of Africa
* is an art form that has often been neglected
  - is near impossible to master
  - of questioning, a reinvention of melody
  - artform of misinformation and disinformation on the net
  - attempt at individual expression
  - improvisational skill by the performed and the instrumentalist
  - offspring of a long oral tradition of African music
  - open, free, experimenting art form
  - urban music
  - another word for sex
  - basically a form of blues
  - born in New Orleans via a combination of black and creole music
  - both pop and classical
  - characterized by driving rhythms, exciting melodies, and improvising
  - created by jazz musicians
  - dance music
  - democracy in action
  - described as a combination of black folk tunes, brass band marches and ragtime
  - genres of music
* is improvisation and feeling
  - improvisation is jazz
  - improvised music, and Arab music has 'taksim,' which is also an improvised form of music
  - in many ways a foreign language
  - joyous music, often feel-good, danceable
  - music that involves the listeners
  - now a world music,and a world language
* is one of America's truly indigenous art forms
  - the deepest modes of communication and artistry in human history
  - three indigenous American art forms
  - popular music
  - simply a type of music defined by syncopation and improvisation
  - style of music
  - supposed to be self-expression
* is the art of turning on a dime, being ultimately flexible
  - contemporary dance of today
  - direct expression of feelings
  - direction African music took in america
  - living embodiment of democracy
* is the most American of art forms
  - democratic of music, holding the individual and the collective in delicate balance
  - music of the day
  - only music in the Western world in which the most risk yields the greatest results
  - performance by musicians of an arrangement of a song featuring improvised solos
  - role of the black man in white society
  - true American musical art form
  - very foundation and essence of salacious dancing
  - their music and they can relate to what is being said
  - to rap what dreams are to reflections
  - uplifting music
  - used, and continues to function, as funeral music, dance music, show music, and more
* is, above all, a music played through something.
* manner in which music is played.
* means working things out musically with other people.
* medium that is constantly evolving.
* music of protest and possibility
  - syncopation where the off beats are stressed
  - the spirit
  - suspended in time, and it needs no historical context
* music that has formed a language, No one is banned from learning the language
  - s in the moment
* musicians regularly improvise, meaning they make up tunes, chords, and rhythms on the spot.
* native, a constant that changes with each generation.
* powerful and exciting form of dance.
* private, broadband network.
* process of adjusting to the musical moment.
* remains popular because it is continually being updated to complement current music trends.
* represents a multiformity of musical ideas and originating influences
  - sophistication, tradition and quality
* result of the influence of significant key musical figures.
* shared learning experience.
* special process for making music.
* tapestry of individual voices.
* tends to have an emphasis on strength.
* thrives on happenstance.
* uniquely American phenomenon, part and parcel of the twentieth century.
* voice and data convergent communications billing system.
+ Glissando: Musical performance techniques :: Musical terminology
  * Some jazz clarinettists manage to play a glissando on the clarinet. They do this by gradually changing the way they blow whilst at the same time gradually lifting all the fingers off the keys. George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' starts with a glissando on the solo clarinet.