Illustrated talk by DON Locke
Many people, including writers on Jazz, still regard improvisation as the main feature which gives Jazz its special value. Don LOCKE. who has written on jazz in specialist magazines, defines some other Qualities in the playing of jazz which seem to him more truly characteristic and important.
His ' quotations ' are from
Louis Armstrong , Duke Ellington, Muggsy Spanier , Charlie Parker , Ornette Coleman and Miles Davis