Begegnungen

Jazz is a music with African-American roots, yet it flourishes all over the world in every possible (sonic) hue. Jazz is a creative art form: musicians around the globe who have embraced it have had to understand and respect its roots as African-American music just as much as they were called upon to bring their own traditions to the table. This book explores these processes of balancing respect and autonomy. It is not so much about “world music” per se as it is about the productive engagement with traditions, and the fact that jazz now draws a wealth of inspiration from all corners of the world, where it is also understood as a distinct musical form.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 10th Darmstadt Jazz Forum in October 2007, in which various musical approaches, adaptations or adoptions are examined in more detail. These are often ideas that originate from ethnic musical styles but harmonize so well with the jazz playing style that it is difficult to classify the musical results under conventional genre terms. You can't really speak of "world music", nor is it mainstream jazz in the conventional sense. It is a creative exchange that changes jazz, whether you like it or not.

With contributions by:
Andrew W. Hurley: But did the world meet jazz? Behind J-E Berendt’s “Jazz Meets the World” series
Maximilian Hendler: Jazz or not jazz?
Torsten Eßer: Jazz in Latin America – a peripheral phenomenon?
Wolfram Knauer: Blowin’ Up a (European) Storm. Stanko / Rava / Beckett –
A Comparison of Very Different Trumpet Voices in European Jazz
Günther Huesmann: “Tokyo Operations” – John Zorn and the Japanese Concept of Tradition
Gerhard Putschögl: On the Interactions Between Jazz / African-American
Music and Flamenco Nuevo in Contemporary Styles of Spanish Music
Timothy R. Mangin: Cosmopolitan Roots: Jazz in Senegal
Silvia Kurschus: The Contemporary Jazz Scenes in Berlin and Rome. Jazz Tradition versus Cultural Background. “Melting Pot” or “Salad Bowl”?
Ralf Dombrowski: The Original and the Original. Techniques of Cultural Appropriation
Using the Example of Oriental Jazz
Martin Pfleiderer: The World Meets Jazz. On the Aesthetics of Jazz in the Age
of Globalization
Gilad Atzmon: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Contemporary Music.
Conversation with Musician Gilad Atzmon
Karl Berger: Sketches of World Music Experiences
Harald Justin: Jazz and World Music in the Crosshairs of the Culture War

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