Let It Roll
Let It Roll
Pantheon Media
How Jazz and Rock and Roll Came to Be Seen As Completely Separate Genres
1 hour 3 minutes Posted Dec 13, 2021 at 6:00 pm.
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Host Nate Wilcox asks Matt about the role of music magazines such as Downbeat and Rolling Stone in the creation of a strict separation between the genres of jazz and rock which were so closely related that in 1955 Duke Ellington called rock & roll “the most raucous form of jazz, beyond a doubt.”

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