Beauty Of Armenian - Jazz ((full))

Imagine a jazz standard played by a quartet where the trumpet no longer plays a standard G, but slides into a half-flat 3rd. The result is a music that swings with a distinctly non-Western ache. This is the organic soil from which Armenian jazz grew.

Before becoming a world-renowned symphonic composer, Terterian was a jazz pianist. He understood that Coltrane’s modal jazz was functionally identical to Armenian folk scales. He began writing pieces where a bass would play a traditional Armenian dhol rhythm while the piano soloed over a 7/8 time signature. His genius was showing that the "complexity" of modern jazz was already present in ancient village dances. Beauty of Armenian JAZZ

Listen to his track "Vardavar" or "The Court Jester." Imagine a jazz standard played by a quartet

Armenian jazz is beautiful because of the clash of textures: His genius was showing that the "complexity" of