Author(s)

Xin Wang

Corresponding Author

Xin Wang

ABSTRACT

The book Jazz and Psychotherapy written by Simeon Alev integrates all the ideas and information from the psychologists and musicians. The author pushes the idea of uncertainty; no one fully understands what is going to happen next. As a result, the book adores all the intrinsic nature of predictability making all the transformative changes possible. The author has also incorporated all the practices and theoretical frameworks explaining the relationship between jazz and psychotherapy. The psychologists and the musicians explain how improvisation transforms the lives of people, and also the challenges that humans face. The book necessitates the importance of understanding the improvisation structures. One most common improvised art is Jazz. Initially, jazz music was considered to be racially inclined dance music featuring both the solo and collective improvisation. Having got its establishment from New Orleans, the music soon became highly popular in the entire country, making it famous in the 1920s. The popularity is highly linked to the migration and movement of musicians from the south in search of better social and economic opportunities in different regions within the country. After reading the book, one is more likely to gain complex and revolutionary approaches of defining human development.

KEYWORDS

Music Therapy, Jazz Improvisation, Psychotherapy