Из лабиринта от разкази в нефиксираната музика: аспекти на етноджаза (върху виждания на Милчо Левиев)
Exploring the Labyrinth of Narratives in the Non-Fixed Music: Aspects of Ethnojazz (On Views of Milcho Leviev)

Summary/Abstract: If the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries indicate significant acceleration in the process of migration and crossing of musical languages, jazz is undoubtedly considered to be among the mightiest factors in this direction. This becomes quite obvious while observing emblematic Bulgarian performers experienced in jazz, classical music, folk music, wedding orchestras, pop music, or world music, who intertwine their creative musical skills and open new perspectives before jazz as “common language”. Based on conversations with Milcho Leviev (composer, arranger, piano performer, and jazz innovator), this article explores aspects of ethnojazz, seen within the process described as “returning to ethnicity” as well as within the broader framework of jazz as particular phenomenon of the 20th century and its relation to concepts of eclecticism, innovation, swinging, improvisation, subjectivity, otherness, and dialogism, among others.

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