Articles by David Pleasant
Opinion
Jazz is More Than Jazz
by David Pleasant
Jazz is more than jazz. The thing that drew me to the musical experience called jazz was its potential to radicalize form. Improvisation appeared to me as an epiphanous instantaneous elevation to non-time: a place that defied the enforced categories of gravity, horizon, race, politics, age and so forth. I am aware, however, that beyond those moments, the structures that control it are indeed bound by the very forces that it transcends. The boundless potential of improvisation has a long ...
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