Answer the following three questions. Write a minimum of 500 words per question. Format your essay using 12-point, Times New Roman font, double spaced. Provide a simple bibliography at the end. Of your source material, which can be from the class text or other academic and well-researched sources. Use parenthetical citation and quotations when necessary.
To what extent is free jazz a radical departure from jazz tradition and norms? And, to what extent is free jazz merely another example of a jazz style that arises by developing and progressing from earlier styles?
Discuss the relationship between jazz and the Civil Rights Movement. In what ways did they influence each other? Consider the artists, recordings, and events that contributed to this relationship.
Pick a living jazz artist recording and performing today. Listen to some recordings and discuss their career. In what ways are they connected to previous styles of jazz? In what ways have they departed? Consider the instrumentation, rhythm, harmony, tempo, etc. Which styles of jazz (cool, hard bop, bebop, etc.) could they have evolved from?
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