Jazz Performing: Storytelling Style Of Jazz:

The art of jazz improvisation and the notion of storytelling in connection with this art form are not unitary conceptions nor phenomena; rather, the terms denote fields occupied by a variety of differently structured and multi-layered interests, experiences, and perceptions. Both expression and communication, coherence, temporality, openness, and wholeness, as well as tradition-authenticity and self authenticity, are important aspects in our understanding of jazz improvisation and of how th...