[CrackMonkey] Mental illness 'at the root of jazz'

[James Morris]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1430000/1430337.stm

"The mental health problems of one musician could have led to
 the creation of jazz. 

 Without his schizophrenia, Charles "Buddy" Bolden - the man
 credited by some with starting off the jazz movement - might
 never have started improvisation, psychiatrists have heard. 

 And without this style change, music might never have evolved
 from ragtime into the jazz movement we know today. "



- James
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James Morris
<jmorris at intercode.com.au>