jazz, the opinions

There has long been debate in the jazz community over the definition and boundaries of "jazz". Although alteration or transformation of jazz by new influences has often been criticized initially as a humiliation "," Andrew Gilbert argues that jazz has the ability "to absorb and transform influences" from diverse musical styles. While some enthusiasts of certain types of jazz argued for narrower definitions which exclude many types of music also known as the "jazz", jazz musicians themselves are often reluctant to define the music they play. Duke Ellington concluded by saying, "It's all music." Some critics even stated that Ellington music was not jazz because it is set and adjust. On the friend the other hand Ellington twenty solo Earl Hines's "transformative versions" composition Ellington (on Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington recorded in 1970) described by Ben Ratliff, New York Times critic jazz, like "as a good example of the process of jazz as something out there ".

Commercially-oriented or popular music-influenced forms of jazz have both long been criticized, at least since the emergence of Bop. Traditional jazz enthusiasts have dismissed Bop, the 1970s jazz [era fusion and many others] as a period of decline in the commercial value of music. According to Bruce Johnson, jazz music has always had tension "between commercial music and jazz as an art form" Gilbert notes that. As the idea of a canon of jazz is developing, "past performance" can become "... privileged over special creativity ..." and innovation of artists at the Village Voice. Jazz critic Gary Giddins argues that as the creation and dissemination of jazz increasingly institutionalized and dominated by big entertainment companies, jazz is facing "a.  ... The future of respectability and acceptance interested dangerous" David Ake warned that the creation of "norms" in jazz and the establishment of the jazz tradition "may exclude or sideline other newer, avant-garde forms of jazz. Controversies also arise over new forms of contemporary jazz is made outside the United States and depart significantly from the American style in one view they are an important part of the current development of jazz that;. In others they are sometimes criticized as a rejection of the jazz tradition is important.