Jazz Stories

Jazz and politics

For the past fifty or sixty years, certain critics and historians have wanted to read and analyze the evolution of ...

Jazz, criticism, communication and social media

Jazz since its birth, being as it was a form of musical expression of the African-American community, was initially ignored, ...

Jazz and the animal world

Throughout the history of jazz, the animal world has been portrayed in many different ways in everything that has to ...

Gangsterism and Jazz

erhaps the title of this article will come as a surprise. In essence, gangsterism and jazz have nothing to do ...

The piano: from the Barrelhouses to the White House

There is a scene in a very good and little-known film, The Honeydripper, in which one of the protagonists, who, ...

An odd instrument in jazz: the violin

When talking about jazz, visions of trumpets, saxophones, trombones, clarinets, and, of course, drums arise in our minds. We do ...

The learning of jazz musicians

Throughout the history of jazz, musicians who have wanted to play this type of music have gone through a learning ...

The treatment of the voice in vocal jazz

Jazz music has always been defined as a music of interpretation, not composition. This means that we cannot properly speak ...

Organization of the jazz orchestra

A jazz orchestra, be it a small ensemble (trio, quartet, quintet, etc.) or a big band (formation from 10 musicians), ...

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