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December 2004:
1880s: Work Songs
1890s: Delta Blues
1900s: Ragtime
1910s: Dixieland
1920s: Jazz Age
1930s: Swing
1940s: Bebop
1950s: Hard-Bop
1960s: Avant-Garde
1970s: Fusion
1980s: Hip-Hop
1990s: Techno
2000s: One big melting pot
Let’s see some interesting musical collaborations
this decade. I want to hear something new. When I was 16, listening to
Charles Mingus’ composition Celia, the music was entirely new to
me; I had never heard anything like it before. Two years earlier, when
I first listened to Duke Ellington and John Coltrane play In A
Sentimental Mood, I thought to myself that things were changing all
around me. As a fourteen year old, I then realized that I was going
through a tremendous growth process too. The dulcet tones of Coltrane’s
sax put me to sleep that night.
Different schools are starting to mesh into one
united entity. This amoeba’s gravitational pull is toward the 1957 to
1962 era on my timeline. Hard-boppers such as James Carter are starting
to play with avant-garde cats like Joey Baron (the drummer was part of
'long and tall' Carter’s Gypsy project). With Globalization in
full effect, maybe all of the world’s music will become unified some
day. It’s an interesting (and even daunting) theory. First though, let
us see if more 20th century jazz styles merge together: I
want to see beboppers on stage mixing it up with rappers and free jazz
cats going crazy with DJs at raves. I don’t think this is too much to
ask.
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