I’m just a listener, but also find this fascinating. I think the jazz is in some ways a revival of baroque performance traditions. Improvisation was hugely impo

I’m just a listener, but also find this fascinating. I think the jazz is in some ways a revival of baroque performance traditions. Improvisation was hugely important in the baroque, and also they had their own version of swung rhythm; what was notated as a string of 8th notes was not played that way.