The Nature of a Jazz Masterpiece
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Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
Dwight Andrews, noted musician and scholar, discusses what makes a jazz masterpiece. In every discipline of western art, certain works have been deemed emblematic of an era, a style, or an artist. How is a canon established within the art world? What is a jazz masterpiece? Is there a jazz canon? Andrews handles these and other questions in a multi-media presentation.
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