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What's jazz |
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Originating in America |
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An African and European mix |
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But then all this is known to everyone |
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No fun to hear all that you know |
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What's jazz |
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You know of Count Basie John Coltrane |
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Louis Armstrong and all those names |
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You know they made the different styles we hear |
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The Swing Be bop and Dixieland |
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But is Jazz a style |
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Or just the rhythm played |
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And will it still be jazz |
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Without the improvising style |
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Is it an American thing |
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A culture old and boring |
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Does it have to be done the way that they've played |
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Cause isn't jazz supposed to be fun and free |
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You know |
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I haven't studied to sing at school |
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I don't know'bout all the chords they use |
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The music theory that they play is too |
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Confusing for my simple mind |
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You see |
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Ella Billie and Anita taught me all I know |
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That's how I sing my jazz |
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That's not jazz |
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Or It's a privilege |
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We've heard them many times |
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But don't you see it's not logic |
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Miles Davis is great to hear |
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But try a different ear |
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4 Hero Jazzanova Matthew Herbert |
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Cause otherwise you're saying |
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That Jazz is dead |
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One thing |
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Let me explain I do love the old |
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But I'm living in the present now |
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To me the music jazz is our spirit |
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Like Blues and Soul and also Rock |
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That's jazz |
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That's why I sing as I sing today |
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And I'll be singing all I feel That's Jazz |
