In 1964, Thelonious Monk, one of the pioneers of the be-bop and perhaps jazz’s greatest composer, was asked in an interview to define jazz. Usually monk dislike questions but this time he couldn’t miss a beat: “New York, man. You can feel it. It’s around in the air….” Be-bop was something labeled as “New yok Jazz,” and it is, in fact, the only major school of jazz to which the city can lay proprietary claim. The purpose of bop’s irregular phrasings side sliding harmonies and whirlwind space, was, in Kenny Clarke’s words, to “raise the standards of musicianship,” to tell people, “Whatever you go into, go into it intelligently”. In that time jazz was the music that was killing it and was the music that represented New Yok city while in others placed they had others type of
In 1964, Thelonious Monk, one of the pioneers of the be-bop and perhaps jazz’s greatest composer, was asked in an interview to define jazz. Usually monk dislike questions but this time he couldn’t miss a beat: “New York, man. You can feel it. It’s around in the air….” Be-bop was something labeled as “New yok Jazz,” and it is, in fact, the only major school of jazz to which the city can lay proprietary claim. The purpose of bop’s irregular phrasings side sliding harmonies and whirlwind space, was, in Kenny Clarke’s words, to “raise the standards of musicianship,” to tell people, “Whatever you go into, go into it intelligently”. In that time jazz was the music that was killing it and was the music that represented New Yok city while in others placed they had others type of