What is jazz like today? 1 paragraph.

 Jazz music is not limited to one genre or style.

Explanation:

You see today’s jazz artists are basically going in one of three directions: traditional, contemporary mainstream, or "anything goes." Traditionalists are performing jazz mainly patterned on Blues, Swing, Bebop, and Hard Bop; in other words, they exclude Free Jazz and Fusion. Traditionalists believe that what they play is "real jazz," not the various hybrids and "add-ons" (according to them) that occurred in the 1960s and since. They are also known as "jazz purists."

Contemporary mainstream jazz artists are influenced mostly by Hard Bop sensibilities. Contemporary mainstream jazz artists use, for the most part, Hard Bop instrumentation and musical forms. However, within the Hard Bop framework, contemporary mainstream jazz artists continue to push the music forward. Increasing technical proficiency on their instruments, expanded musical harmonies (more difficult and complex chords and chord progressions), and deeper and varied emotions expressed. Now “anything goes” jazz artists will put all kinds of music into the pot and stir it up; these can include but are not limited to all styles of jazz classical music (mostly of the 20th and 21st century variety), world music (i.e., music from other parts of the world), especially from South America and Asia. All styles of blues, rock, rhythm and blues, Latin, funk, hip-hop, ska, rap, and popular music.

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i think you best answer to this is d. some film directors were very picky about roles and lighting and and which side of the face the camera should catch. they were also picky about sound and background noise and chatter and music and all sorts of what we would consider trivial things. a stage director has to have all this ironed out before the curtain goes up. if he doesn't he better do it soon. if he doesn't notice, critics soon will, and they are not a very nice bunch.

e: both have the power to ask for rewrites. theater directors are always yammering about act 2.

c is true. both can ask for any number of things during rehearsals. the reason i wouldn't pick c is because a film director can make changes anytime during shooting, including when he thinks they ought to be done shooting.

b i didn't know what blocking was and i can't find a good description. if you have one and think b is true, go for it.

a a film director quite frequency chooses the leading lady or man. he may not have the final word, but he chooses. sometimes a theater director has no choice. a is generally not true.