Jazz Foundation: What is Call-and-Response?

Jazz Foundation: What is Call-and-Response?

Collaboration and communication are two key components of jazz, which makes call-and-response motifs—in which one musical phrase is answered with another—one of the music’s cornerstones. Hear musicians working in tandem and diverse examples of call-and-response techniques in jazz. Amen!

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