Question: Write a 3 paragraph essay on the following topic: If you HAD to choose only one style of Jazz as your personal favorite, what would it be, and why? Site specific musical characteristics and musicians, and what it is about them that appeals to you. You are choosing from:
1.) Dixieland/Early Jazz,
2.) Swing Era,
3.) Be-Bop,
4.) Cool Era,
5.) Hard Bop/Free Form, or
6.) Fusion. (Since "Modern Jazz - Jazz Today" is still evolving and largely draws from the past and pushes it into the future, it is not considered a separate style or jazz era.)
Choose HardBop/Free Form please, and have to choose the musicians from the document from below.