Occasional Jazz Conjectures

[To be interpreted in a tweed-jacketed, drawn, quartered, and musty, dusty and heavily foot-noted and blustery, professorial drone] 
 
In our last lecture we looked at archetypes as they pertain to jazz — discovering that humans (or in this case The Musician) have a “preconscious psychic disposition that enables a (man) to react in a human manner.” These […]

Jazz is rich in what filmmaker Arthur Jaffa calls polyventiality — multiple views, layered, and overlapping in rhythm, tone, and perspective. . .

Take One: In its early days jazz was an assault on the American dream of a simple morality. Along with alcohol and the movies, jazz boldy suggested (maybe for the first time in […]