I have always thought that jazz was, in a way, America's 'classical'
music. What you just described sounds like what classical musicians call
a fugue. Jazz musicians have kept the tradition of polyphony alive and
well.
Mark Montgomery
On Tue, 29 May 2001 Greypins@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 5/29/2001 8:18:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> thomas8@t... writes:
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> << Leonard Bernstein describe the difference between classical
> music and jazz as 'exact' and 'inexact', >>
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> mark,
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> this made me think of that film on the late, great trumpet player chet
> baker called 'let's get lost'. also, i once heard jazz described as 'they
> play a tune, then they get lost, then one of them remembers the tune and they
> quit before they get lost again'.
>
> mike
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