Isabelle Ortiz

ROUTES Roots: Jazz and its Roots |1979-6-16 5 min read

• African-American history
• Blues
• Jazz
• Music

ROUTES Roots: Jazz and its Roots |1979-6-16

Isabelle Ortiz 1 year ago

If it is almost a truism that Jazz has absorbed the blues, the extent to which Jazz and Latin Music have influenced each other is... Read More

Music: Jazz in Transition: From Tradition to Fusion |1979-6-4 12 min read

• African-American history

Music: Jazz in Transition: From Tradition to Fusion |1979-6-4

Isabelle Ortiz 1 year ago

During the past decade, one periodically heard that jazz was agonizing. Indeed, after the Free Jazz explorations of the 1960s and the early 1970s, many... Read More

Music: The Rebirth of Abbey Lincoln |1979-12-2 8 min read

• African-American history

Music: The Rebirth of Abbey Lincoln |1979-12-2

Isabelle Ortiz 1 year ago

Great artists are both aristocrats and recluses — aristocrats because of their taste and refinement, recluses because they must submit to the rigorous discipline necessary... Read More