In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.
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I feel like Europe is way more advanced. They're way more open to the definition of jazz. More cool. They're like, 'You want to do that? Awesome. You want to work with a rapper? Awesome.' They're not, 'Aah, it's not real jazz.'
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.
Most of the people that I learned and experienced jazz with have been with foreign white people, mostly from France. Excluding my family.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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