Over the course of the past century, Jazz music has gone through a massive number of deep transformations to its musical surface.
Over the course of the past century, Jazz music has gone through a massive number of deep transformations to its musical surface. Beginning with the first truly mature and well-defined style of the swing era in the twenties, passing through the bebop style of the forties, the fifties’ modal jazz of Miles Davis, the avantgarde sounds of the post-bop era and of course the absolute liberation from any formal or musical paradigm in the free jazz style of the sixties.