Abstract
Abstract I have been saving for last the discussion of a phenomenon in jazz that is little remarked, but that may be more important to the vitality of the music than other aspects I have talked about. It is, in any case, one of the happiest ones. That is what might be called the “local” jazz scene. Jazz criticism and jazz history have always concentrated on the big names, the stars, and the famous clubs and dance halls where they worked. In fact, jazz history is usually written around a chain of major figures Oliver, to Armstrong, to Beiderbecke, to Ellington, to Goodman, to Parker, to Davis, to Coltrane, to Coleman-to the point where it might appear to the outsider that these great players were jazz history.
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