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Into The Light: Music of Korea V
by Ian Patterson
The Korean Arts Management Service (KAMS) has put a great deal of energy and resources into promoting the Korean performance arts abroad in the past nine years. Music is one of its biggest exports, with traditional and contemporary Korean music increasingly finding its way into the World Music, jazz and numerous arts festivals of the world. The crossroads where jazz and contemporary improvised music meet was presented in the excellent third volume of Into The Light: Traditional Music ...
read moreVarious Artists: Into the Light - Korean Music III - Traditional Music & Korean Jazz
by Ian Patterson
Various Artists Into the Light: Korean Music III: Traditional Music & Korean Jazz KAMS 2010 Although the differences in beat, rhythm and harmony that separate traditional Korean music and jazz may partially explain why jazz has been approached only relatively recently in Korea, in fact Korean traditional musicians are fundamentally suited to jazz given the large element of improvisation inherent in Korean folk styles. These two CDs offer a tantalizing slice of ...
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