Contemporary jazz, improvisation, skills

Authors

  • Florin Balan Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2025.18.67.1.2

Keywords:

jazz, improvisational thinking, instrumental technique, stylistic skills, contemporary harmonic structures, elements

Abstract

The assimilation of different musical practices, idioms or aesthetics, is an expression that explains in detail the origins of some of the fusions of the significant creators of the jazz phenomenon, an active pursuit whose purpose is to create new, musically innovative, hybridized styles. It represents the modern view, a term for which researchers will suggest that it is a suitable description for the evolutionary compositional technique of certain artists adept at experimental practices of fusion of elements, the preferential ability to combine the structure of standard themes in a modern, original manner that takes on new forms, contrary to the traditional ways of tonal jazz. Musicians of the contemporary style articulate stylistically through unequal and variable musical combinations, which do not completely replace the previously known genre terms (jazz, rock, funk), but allow the emergence of other creative styles, which evolve, delight and continuously challenge the characteristics of the preceding categories. Modernism emphasizes the instability of all gender designations and highlights the creative fluidity, the structure of musical practices that gender names try to immortalize in order to give discussions about jazz, music in general a significant new starting point. Issuing the title of a musical genre (modernism) is a way of recognizing its existence and being able to distinguish it from other musical genres or styles. This (name) becomes a point of reference and easily allows the constitution of certain forms of interactive musical communication, control and specialization in the field, elaboration of templates, discussions, essentially a new evolutionary step.

Author Biography

Florin Balan, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

PhD 

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Published

2025-07-21

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Section

PERFORMING ARTS