What would you include in your version of the history of jazz?
Source: Guardian
In a seven-part series, Guardian
and Observer writers are trying to tell the history of modern music. Rounding
everything off, today they pick out 50 key moments in the story of jazz – but
what did they miss?
在七個組成的系列內，衛報和觀察員作家試圖訴說現代音樂的歷史。今天他們揀選出50名爵士樂關鍵時刻的音樂故事，以圓滿結束。- 但他們有錯過什麼嗎？
Miles Davis. 邁爾斯戴維斯
Photograph: Gai Terrell/Redferns
Drug busts, razor-sharp
tailoring and breathtaking musicianship: yes, it's the turn of jazz, completing our seven-part history
of modern music. It's a journey that stretches back to the early 1900s, and
takes us from New Orleans to Cuba to Manhattan
to Cologne
毒品迷幻案件，銳利的剪裁和驚人的音樂才能：是的，它就是成為爵士樂的總和，完成我們現代音樂史的七部分。這個旅程可以追溯到20世紀初，從新奧爾良，古巴，曼哈頓到科隆。所有偉大鉅作都包括在內，當然，從路易斯阿姆斯壯到邁爾斯戴維斯，從杜克到 Dizzy，尚和比利，種族主義，性別歧視和對音樂世界根深蒂固的精英主義裝備都可在線上搜尋。還有為Sgt Pepper設置的區域，外觀如同賈斯汀比伯一樣
"Jazz is a way of
playing," said the great jazz pianist and educator Billy Taylor.
Duke Ellington called it the music of surprise – and our history takes in
classical music, spirituals, the blues, R&B, electronica, punk and world
music. We argued when jazz started and we argued over who should feature in our
story of its continuation – the contributors, in this instance, comprising the
Guardian's jazz critic John Fordham and the writers Richard Williams, John Lewis and
John
L Walters. Note the one thing that we all agreed on: that jazz isn't at an
end...
So tell us what you think we've
missed in the thread below, and thanks for following the series.
偉大的爵士樂鋼琴教育家比利泰勒說: “爵士樂是一種表演方式”。艾靈頓公爵把它稱為音樂的驚喜-我們的歷史融入古典音樂，靈歌，藍調，R＆B，電子樂，龐克和世界音樂需要。我們討論爵士何時展開，我們爭論誰才應該是我們延續故事的主角-貢獻者，在這種情況下，由衛報爵士樂評論家約翰福特漢姆和作家理查德威廉姆斯，約翰劉易斯和約翰 L 沃爾特斯。請注意一件事情，我們都同意：這爵士樂永未結束... ...
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