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Jazz Style and Improvisation Codes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Raymond F. Kennedy
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Every now and then it becomes fashionable to study the processes involved in improvisation or extemporization. Any renewed interest in improvisation, for whatever reason, is usually accompanied by a renewed interest in jazz, for it is within the jazz tradition that improvisation is generally presumed to be most manifest in Western culture.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 19 , 1987, pp. 37 - 43
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Copyright © 1987 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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