By Albert Bifarelli

American Art Music - Jazz - defines a modern visceral aesthetic, which authenticates a uniquely kinetic and honorific human technology at play. The cultural reorientation of constitutional life from agrarian (blues and folk Art) to an industrial (jazz and fine Art) sensibility documents this dynamic modulation and progression from a predominantly oral to a spectacularly aural evocation of individual experiment, exploration and extemporaneous artistic invention.

Traditionally, jazz interpolates for musicians operating in the twentieth-century what historian Henri-Irenee Marrou contends the master rhetoricians accomplished for Antiquity in the late classical age: "Exhibit impromptu virtuoso techniques and performances by recalling and weaving deeply embedded themes from memory into challenging new combinations."

The predecessor for treating improvisation as a viable innovation for processing and generating fresh ideas through speech, historically, is now incarnated within the syntax of organized sound. Technology, which implies the logic of improvement applied to science and engineering for a human-built world, ostensibly through the medium of jazz generates improvement via elaboration, extension, and refinement on previously crafted themes, which emerge unpremeditated within a sonically orchestrated world.

Jazz emancipates the ritual of the Blues through the stylistic engagement that materializes among individuals willfully deliberating in a group dialogue designed to reconcile the confluence of disparate, multifarious ideas into a comprehensible twelve-part musical form. Subsequently, the joining of our intellectual and psychological processes de rigueur with the temporal, syncopated cadence concomitant to the dissonance associated with contemporary life is captured exquisitely within the coordinated impulse and vitality indelible to the connotations of Swing.

On June 28, 1928, amid the intrepid oscillations of ebullient vibrato, incendiary tone, and the sonority of cascading phrases, the herald of a new technology arrives presciently - embodied within the clarion call and stentorian response of Louis Armstrong's seminal "West End Blues."