I have always thought that jazz was, in a way, America's 'classical' music. What you just described sounds like what classical musicians call a fugue. Jazz musicians have kept the tradition of polyphony alive and well.
Mark Montgomery
On Tue, 29 May 2001 Greypins@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 5/29/2001 8:18:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > thomas8@t... writes: > > << Leonard Bernstein describe the difference between classical > music and jazz as 'exact' and 'inexact', >> > > mark, > > this made me think of that film on the late, great trumpet player chet > baker called 'let's get lost'. also, i once heard jazz described as 'they > play a tune, then they get lost, then one of them remembers the tune and they > quit before they get lost again'. > > mike > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > >
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