Identify a section where free jazz is utilized and describe its significance to the storyline, especially since free jazz did not come to be until well after Parker’s passing.
Charlie Parker was a bebop pioneer, yet Alvin Ailey uses multiple genres of music in the soundtrack. Identify one section in this piece where non-jazz music is used, identify its genre, and explain how it RELATES to jazz (think about the 4 musicological subdivisions of music, this might help you to frame the conversation). When Alvin Ailey actually does utilize jazz […]
