Parallels. Comparison of Jazz Standards between Old and New School of Jazz Players

Abstract

The evolution of jazz over time is an inevitable phenomenon! From an analytical point of view, the resulting forms and compilations have a special weight. The perception and vision of jazz instrumentalists is different, related to age, experience, or personal approach to the elementary notions of expression of specialized language. All these particularities lead to creative progress necessary for artistic development, and the legacy left by the previous creators of the styles is used as an inexhaustible pool of inspiration and creativity. His own vision regarding the interpretive stylistic approach, the ways of reevaluation, reharmonization, reconstruction of the standard reference pieces of tonal, modal, atonal, free jazz, etc., leads to the appearance of the metatonal, which represents nothing more than the modern stylistic compilation of the legacy left, reported, and in accordance with current artistic claims/requirements. The resulting surprises inspire new creative solutions beneficial to artistic evolution. Each success has its charm and particularities, following the possibility of re-expression in a certain (new) context, meaning a (new) step towards a (new) evolutionary step.