Teach Yourself Jazz - online guidebook

For the beginning player, with sheet music samples

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	CHAPTER TWELVE MODERN TRENDS JAZZ LAUNCHES OUT
	Here we reach a point in our journey where it is not easy to see the wood for the trees. We are so close to contemporary jazz players and composers that it must be a highly controversial job to try and sort them out and assign to each one his 'correct degree of importance. In our account of swing and the big bands, we saw how commercial interests had stepped in to exploit the new music as a box-office attraction. You begin to have a state of affairs where men of genius experiment with new sounds, these new sounds are then taken up by the promoters and altered to suit the tastes of the mass public, the creative figures string along for a while—because they have to earn a living —then sometimes form breakway groups so that they can play in the way they like rather than in the way the box-office dictates. Gramophone Records come into their own Now we shall see this process speeded up as the field of gramophone recordings becomes the battle-so