Summary
The intensity of this debate has seen American jazz distance itself from European classical music in recent years in order to establish itself as a 'thing in itself, something that is wholly 'American'. But it has not always been like that.
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Closing the Gap
Jazz and classical music represent two self-contained musical cultures which have, for the most part, studiously avoided each other's orbit. But there's always been a certain amount of tinkering at their respective margins. George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody In Blu...
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