This week on Jazz Spectrum – March 30, 2024
By Fritz ByersThere’s nothing like teaching a class to help you learn. A blog post or two ago I mentioned I’m teaching a jazz-history class. Here’s a thanks to Lourdes for letting me do it and to the students for being so thoughtful and giving me so much to think about. Since Tuesday’s class I’ve been thinking about hard bop – you know, the style that emerged as a reaction to cool jazz, which was a reaction to bop, which was a reaction to swing, which . . .. Read More