Abstract:

Piano Jazz Performance within a Range of Musical Creativity Traditions. Interaction with Traditional Music (Folklore)…The vitality and creative power of jazz musical thinking is based on various traditions of musical creativity in general, which are commonly divided into academic, traditional (folklore), and non-academic music (popular, stage, light, jazz, rock, etc.).This publication is devoted to the issue of the interaction between piano jazz performance and the sphere of traditional (folklore) musical creativity. The main directions are examined in which the creative thought of jazz pianists resonates with the features of traditional (folklore) music. General typological characteristics of traditional music-making that can be identified in jazz are defined.

The existing musical notation system is quite helpless in the face of such agogically and dynamically finely nuanced phenomenon as jazz music. The jazz pianist conjures, intuitively finding the right path of development (among many other possible ones) before our eyes, and by the supernatural power of the released creative imagination and finger-muscular energy gives us his version of the theme, which is endlessly developed. The oral nature of jazz culture is determined not only by factors originating from traditional music, but also by the aesthetic position specific to jazz: to create «here and now», «from nothing», guided by experience and intuition.

The main impulses that come from traditional music and nourish jazz: rhythmic and intonation, harmonic elements, a non-literal way of existence, the relationship between anonymity and authorship, the predominance of practical intuition over theoretical reasoning, formality, and the tournament-competition form of performances.

Keywords: jazz, traditional jazz, art, academic tradition, music.

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