Грампластинка. Bill Evans - New Jazz Conceptions

What resulted was a new Jazz where sound was not just a means to an end but an end in itself. The music became a sound oriented rather than a Theme oriented music - not in totality, but still at a very basic level influencing even the most conservative artist. 16 The Times they are a Changin’ TEXTURE AND VOLUME With the on going search for color, Jazz increasingly became Sound rather than Theme oriented - again, not in totality but still at a very basic level. This concern for color was closely linked (as Michael J. Budds states in ‘Jazz in the Sixties’, University of Iowa Press, 1978) with Texture and Volume. The music of the 40’s and 50’s had a transparency in which the instrumental line and quality was both distinctive and distinguishable. This was now complicated by the new colors and coloristic techniques. But, a new element was added to the mix - a growing contention that ‘it’s not about notes any more, it’s about feelings’ (Albert Ayler). This new orientation sparked a break from traditional procedures and sense of musical order - it was the effect produced and the summation of sound which became an end in itself ...»