A somewhat expansive use of the term jazz to describe a variety of related styles of music.
Finally, we have it: a jazz 78. I did not know the name Peggy Lee, but do I ever know the voice. Fever, one of, to me, the most iconic vocal jazz songs of the era. A Disney movie that I know I have seen but hardly remember. I am all but certain I have …
I have a mixed and conflicted relationship with jazz music. Some, the stuff I have always thought of as swing music, I love deeply. Other jazz, the more free-flowing, less structured music I associate with the years after the swing age, I do not care for. Because I lack a proper understanding of this large …