By my estimate, around five thousand new jazz albums are released each year.

the formation of a true jazz orchestra—

Duke Ellington’s structure for “Sepia Panorama” from 1940,

Count Basie performing on Randall’s Island in 1938,

This bedrock layer of improvisation, almost beyond the scope of musicology, is the psychology or personality of the individual musician.

because this kind of close listening is the source of my pleasure as a consumer of music.

“A new word, like a new muscle, only comes into being when it has long been needed,” explained Ernest J. Hopkins in an article entitled “In Praise of ‘Jazz,’ a Futurist Word Which Has Just Joined the Language.” He went on: “This remarkable and satisfactory-sounding word, however, means something like life, vigor, energy, effervescence of spirit, jo

They were representatives of a folkloric tradition but also exponents of a sophisticated new city music that prided itself on its audacity and innovations.

globalization.