Tue, Mar 19, 1996
"Tonight Dance" "Shall we go out and jazz it?". From the beginning, modern dance was synonymous with jazz. Musicians and orchestras were white, therefore the black background of jazz was almost completely unknown. In Sweden, the Swedish Paramount Orchestra (1926-31) became our first real jazz orchestra.
Sun, May 19, 1996
"Crisis with new tracks" - Jazz but no dance. A large part of the new jazz had become art music, something you just listened to. Many musicians became unemployed. A new youth and popular culture took over; pop and rock and roll. Jazz became free but poor. In this climate, something new is born.