[Perform-Talk] Prince and jazz

[Sandra Streeter]

The other way you see jazz reflected in Prince’s music is, e.g., in the scat I mentioned before: it is definitely done in jazz chords. What’s interesting is, he even seems to delve into later classical periods, at the end of “Purple Rain”, with the—I think—electric violin passage—not really atonal, but definitely note clusters you wouldn’t have picked up pre-20th-century...
Sandra
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