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- Tue Jul 11, 2023 4:50 pm
#102341
Hi Eleanor,
For answer choice (A), it is giving something that we already knew about later jazz. There was SOME improvisation. Answer choice (A) says that improvisation is required for jazz, but it doesn't give us an idea of why it would be enough to call something jazz. The author concludes that despite the improvisation, this later music shouldn't be classified as jazz because it strays too far from the melodies. We want to weaken that conclusion by bringing new information to help make later jazz seem more similar to earlier jazz. That's what answer choice (E) does for us. It gives us more information to suggest that later jazz is more similar to earlier jazz, and another reason we'd want to classify them together.
Hope that helps!
For answer choice (A), it is giving something that we already knew about later jazz. There was SOME improvisation. Answer choice (A) says that improvisation is required for jazz, but it doesn't give us an idea of why it would be enough to call something jazz. The author concludes that despite the improvisation, this later music shouldn't be classified as jazz because it strays too far from the melodies. We want to weaken that conclusion by bringing new information to help make later jazz seem more similar to earlier jazz. That's what answer choice (E) does for us. It gives us more information to suggest that later jazz is more similar to earlier jazz, and another reason we'd want to classify them together.
Hope that helps!