Analysis of Performance Arrangement in the Work of Jazz Ensembles on the Example of the Piece “Joshua” (1963)

The purpose of the article is to study the evolutionary process and related features in the arrangement of a jazz ensemble in the style at the junction of style eras and the emergence of the style of “Jazz Fusion” in the early 50s of the XX century. During the analysis, characteristic performance techniques and some circumstances of the emergence of this trend in jazz were revealed. The article also examines the direction of musical harmonic logic, the emergence of stylistic decisions that will determine the development of instrumental jazz for decades to come. Arrangement decisions that constitute the obligatory context of musical sound and the sound effect are studied.