Teach Yourself Jazz - online guidebook

For the beginning player, with sheet music samples

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	HOW JAZZ DEVELOPED                    17 softer, warmer tone of dancing, drinking, religious ceremonies. But the important thing is not so much the forms in which jazz was cast; the important thing is the Example 2 * c ®            ® Jh
	terrific vitality of jazz. To understand that vital spark of jazz that set the world's imagination aflame, we must understand the experience of negro slavery. Two thousand years ago, a classical poet wrote two lines that might roughly be translated as: "You can drive Nature out with a pitchfork—but she'll come back hot and strong, and keep on coming." To understand why the bombshell of jazz that burst on New Orleans was so hot and strong, we must first understand how savagely the pitchfork