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jazz1
Title: jazz1
Category: Arts & Humanities / Music
Details: Words: 2124 | Pages: 9.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
jazz1
John Coltrane Jazz, taking its roots in African American folk music, has
evolved, metamorphosed, and transposed itself over the last century to
become a truly American art form. More than any other type of music, it
places special emphasis on innovative individual interpretation. Instead of
relying on a written score, the musician improvises. For each specific period
or style through which jazz has gone through over the past seventy years,
there is almost always a …showed first 75 words of 2124 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2124 total…anyway. On Monday, July 17, he passed away. The
cause was liver cancer. John Coltrane’s music both led the way and reflected
the enormous varieties of experimentation and development of American Jazz
of the 1950’s and 60’s. Today, his influence is heard in the recordings of
almost every young jazz musician. A man of mysticism, whose life was
dedicated to sharing his vision of music with others, Coltrane was clearly a
creative genius.
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