Great jazz musicians. 100 stories about the music that conquered the world: Igor Tsar

There is no exact date for the origin of jazz. At the beginning of the 20th century, a new genus of improvisational music – exciting and loud – was first fulfilled and recorded – which was destined to conquer the whole world and survive a whole chain of rise and falls. In this music, which did not know the notes, the improvisation that is born here and now was important. The researchers were given dozens of definitions, but jazz, like fire, does not want to take a frozen shape and, like water, flows in accordance with its internal laws.

Author
Zalar Igor Vladimirovich
Editor
Khvostova D. O.
Publisher
Central Polygraph, 2011
Series
Great. 100
Genre
Culture and art figures