Showing posts with label relevance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label relevance. Show all posts

09/09/2010

Sobre la relevancia

Short note about cultural relevance. While others have used more solemn texts as the basis to play jazz, guitarist Dani Pérez (Argentina, 1967) has used a joke by the very idiosincratic and popular Chiquito de la Calzada (below).



Uno de los problemas fundamentales de la renovación del jazz es su relevancia cultural. En pleno siglo XXI, y fuera de Estados Unidos, cabe preguntarse qué sentido tiene tocar standards.