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"Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks." Ernest Newman. The Sunday Times, "The World of Music", 4 September 1927. "What makes the performance is the dialogue created between you and everybody around you spontaneously. And you have to interact with everybody up there, interacting and reacting, throwing out ideas.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Echoes of the Jazz Age" "Echoes of the Jazz Age" is a short essay by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald that was first published in Scribner's Magazine in November 1931. The essay analyzes the societal conditions in the United States which gave rise to the raucous historical era known as the Jazz Age and the subsequent events which led to the era's abrupt conclusion ...
In The New York Times Book Review, critic Ralph Blumenthal wrote, "Like the music he evokes so lyrically, Geoff Dyer's But Beautiful, a quasi-biographical critique of nine jazz legends, relies heavily on improvisation. You don't have to be a jazz buff to savor this book—but you may be one when you're done."
The Jazz Age was a period of worldwide popularity of jazz music and dance styles, influenced by African-American and European traditions. Many people began performing spirituals, a result of jazz's development during the 1920s and 1930s, as part of the cultural repercussions of the Roaring Twenties.
A 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, based on his own marriage to Zelda Sayre. It depicts the rise and fall of a young couple who become dissipated and ruined by their wealth and hedonism in the Jazz Age.
In his book Digitopia Blues – Race, Technology and the American Voice, poet and saxophonist John Sobol argues that jazz was a transformative vehicle for African-American self-empowerment whose dominant characteristic and purpose was a search for mastery of a language of power, undertaken by a historically enslaved oral people denied access to words of power.
A jazz song by Irving Berlin for the film Follow the Fleet, introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in a dance duet. Learn about the song's background, musical composition, production, and uses in popular culture.
A Gentle Reminder. Jazz took to social media to share a body-positivity message for all her followers. “Every body is beautiful ️ To look at someone’s body and say ‘this is not beautiful ...