All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.
I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time.
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it.
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
No opposing quotes found.