Shostakovitch Jazz Suites:
I posted this a few weeks ago. The most interesting thing about this music is that the composer considered it Jazz. This begs the question, where did he get his concept of Jazz? Not from Pops I would wager. This says a lot about what we talk about often on this thread i.e. "what is, and what is not Jazz.
I am absolutely sure, that as far as he was concerned, the music qualified as Jazz by some definition to which he had been exposed / taught .
The guy also turned against other composers in order to please Stalin. Many of his peers went to the gulag, or the wall.
Cheers
I posted this a few weeks ago. The most interesting thing about this music is that the composer considered it Jazz. This begs the question, where did he get his concept of Jazz? Not from Pops I would wager. This says a lot about what we talk about often on this thread i.e. "what is, and what is not Jazz.
I am absolutely sure, that as far as he was concerned, the music qualified as Jazz by some definition to which he had been exposed / taught .
The guy also turned against other composers in order to please Stalin. Many of his peers went to the gulag, or the wall.
Cheers