The true value of this music lies in an artist’s individual creativity and that unique process of expression which is Jazz.
While many forms of music may use the dynamic of improvisation, Jazz exemplifies the unique characteristic of collective improvisation.
Jazz improvisation is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Jazz – it takes passion to make it happen!
Music is a calling that you must bring your best to, whether listening, practicing or performing.
Jazz goes into my coffee in the morning, in my wine at night.
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time!
Music is what feelings sound like.
If your dreams don’t scare you they’re not big enough!
Learn the tunes by playing the masters, learn expression by playing yourself.
While many attempts have been made to define Jazz, what’s the point really. Jazz is to be experienced – period.
Play the music not the instrument.
A Jazz Diet will make you hipper, thinner, taller, smarter, richer, happier and more attractive to members of both sexes.
Hipness is what it is. But sometimes hipness is what it ain’t.
Practice as if you are the worst, play as if you are the best!
It is better to be felt than to be heard.
My neighbors always listen to very hip Jazz… whether they like it or not.
You don’t chose your inspirations, they chose you.
What’s tied Jazz together is its foundation in the Blues, a reliance on group interplay and the unique phenomenon of spontaneous improvisation.
From hard rhythms of Be-bop, the mellow harmonies of Cool, to atonal forays of Free and the Straight Ahead delivery of Modern, it’s all Jazz.
Play what you feel, feel what you play.
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