French concert music and jazz often enjoyed a special creative exchange across the period 1900 65. French modernist composers were particularly receptive to early African-American jazz during the interwar years, and American jazz musicians, especially those concerned with modal jazz in the 1950s and early 1960s, exhibited a distinct affinity with French musical impressionism. However, despite a general, if contested, interest in the cultural interplay of classical music and jazz, few writers have probed the specific French music-jazz relationship in depth. In this book, Deborah Mawer sets...
French concert music and jazz often enjoyed a special creative exchange across the period 1900 65. French modernist composers were particularly recept...
