ABSTRACT
Forces of globalization and glocalization have been at work to create new and exciting musical styles. Going to Africa or Brazil and one will hear music that takes American jazz as its starting point, but is shaped, both consciously and unconsciously, by elements from local culture. As a jazz tradition was developing in America, a parallel tradition was being developed in Europe, shaped by its own aesthetic responses to the music. While this tradition hungrily absorbed the American vocabulary of jazz, spurred by the arrival in London in 1919 of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, gradually some musicians sought to modify jazz from a European perspective. The most influential of all the European glocal styles is the "Nordic tone". The influence the Nordic tone is being felt in the Europe, and on the US jazz scene. Today, the different glocal styles around the world hold the key to the future of jazz as they interact with the global American styles.
