Articles by Alan Lawrence

What is Jazz? Round 2

by Alan Lawrence
December 9, 2004

What is jazz? Those three words form one of the toughest questions in music. Ask a hundred people and you are likely to get as many different answers. Few things have given me more pleasure in life than listening to the music we call jazz. Even after hearing several thousand recordings in over 15 years and seeing countless live shows, I cannot offer a definitive definition of the word “jazz." The challenge may lie ...