Re: "out" music = derivitive of jazz?

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

At 10:21 PM -0800 2/19/01, matt davignon wrote:
>How much of this "new" music would people say is a derivitive of 
>jazz?  Often I'm considered a "new" musician (not my favorite term 
>due to vagueness) or an "out" musician, but I really don't place 
>much weight on jazz as part of my musical development. I've heard 
>some Coleman and Davis albums, but really didn't weigh in on them 
>that much. Maybe I'm young enough (age = 25) to have a feeling that 
>this sort of stuff has "always existed".

"New music" is a term that became popular in the late 1920s to 
describe music that grew out of the classical tradition but was avant 
garde, experimental, or at least fresh and alive. The New Music 
Society of California was founded in San Francisco by the composer 
Henry Cowell in 1927.

Some of that music was influenced by jazz, but much of jazz was also 
influenced by the modern classical composers. That give and take has 
been going on for so long that the question of priority and influence 
is probably moot at this point.
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