AQA, OCR, Edexcel & Eduqas: a Jazz Primer, Part 2

Jonathan James
Saturday, April 1, 2017

In part one of this two-part jazz resource (Music Teacher, March 2017), we traced how jazz evolved from humble beginnings as a folk music into being the mainstream popular music of its day. By 1945, where we left off, the Glenn Miller Orchestra had become the sound of America, rallying record-breaking crowds and symbolising free-world values. What had happened to its founding identity?