It is a practice-based research project with two objectives, the first to uncover degrees to which pre-learnt skills and idiosyncratic creations occur and interact in music-making, and the second to contribute to the body of knowledge in spontaneous improvised music research: an area of the art which at this time is beginning to invite intense enquiry. This exegesis examines influences, processes and idiosyncrasies in musical improvisation in a jazz context, identified through analysis and observation of selected, recorded performances by the author. Following this chronological catalogue, the paper concludes with a comparative analysis of the findings of this inventory, and of the most significant characteristics and data of the compositions presented here. The main purpose of this research is to describe and examine the various jazz compositions dedicated to this literary myth that have been recorded, published or performed in the second half of the 20 th century and in the first fifteen years of the 21 st, including works by composers such as Kenny Wheeler, Mitsuaki Kanno, Richard Carr, Carlo Actis Dato, Roberto Nannetti, Ron Westray, or Jasper van't Hof. By way of introduction, this study provides an overview of jazz music related to this literary classic in general, and of works of other musical genres-classical, pop, rock-inspired by Dulcinea the role, the function and the symbolism of this character in the novel are also briefly summarized. The present article deals with a hitherto unexplored aspect of the reception of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote in music: the presence of Dulcinea in jazz, in the past fifty years (1965–present).
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