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What Is Jazz Music About? The Search Continues...

by AAJ Staff
January 15, 2021

We thought it would be a fun exercise to conduct various searches on jazz and compile the results. What are the defining characteristics of jazz? After all the searching, only a handful of elements exist that musicians and experts commonly accept as defining characteristics of jazz. Swing and syncopationImprovisation Bent notes and ...