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galen  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Does jazz put the sin in syncopation?" [1921]

I feel like syncopation was sort of taken over by funk music, to the point that you might even see some New Orleans jazz labelled as funk. So maybe it's not so much syncopation disappearing from jazz as it breaking away.

You'll also note that Jelly Rolls's classic definition of jazz contains no mention of syncopation:

    A lot of people have a wrong conception of jazz. Somehow it got into the dictionary that jazz was considered a lot of blatant noises and discordant tones. Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. When you have your plenty rhythm with your plenty swing, it becomes beautiful.




BLOB_CASTLE  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I feel like syncopation was sort of taken over by funk music, to the point that you might even see some New Orleans jazz labelled as funk.
I wonder if this is a good or a bad thing...

Is that how he himself defined jazz? If so, I find that a bit strange considering how prominent syncopation is in his music.

galen  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That definition is his, yeah. But it's possible he just intended to hint at syncopation with phrases like "plenty rhythm".

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  3777 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah that would make sense. I imagine "syncopation" was coined much later.