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BLOB_CASTLE  ·  3832 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Does jazz put the sin in syncopation?" [1921]

    I feel like syncopation was sort of taken over by funk music, to the point that you might even see some New Orleans jazz labelled as funk.
I wonder if this is a good or a bad thing...

Is that how he himself defined jazz? If so, I find that a bit strange considering how prominent syncopation is in his music.





galen  ·  3832 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That definition is his, yeah. But it's possible he just intended to hint at syncopation with phrases like "plenty rhythm".

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  3830 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah that would make sense. I imagine "syncopation" was coined much later.