Spontaneously composed music is a counterpoint that has its own rules based on a natural order and intuitive logic.
It is better to be felt than to be heard.
My neighbors always listen to very hip Jazz… whether they like it or not.
Ideologies separate us. Art brings us together.
Play the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you play.
What’s tied Jazz together is its foundation in the Blues, a reliance on group interplay and the unique phenomenon of spontaneous improvisation.
While many attempts have been made to define Jazz, what’s the point really. Jazz is to be experienced – period.
While many forms of music may use the dynamic of improvisation, Jazz exemplifies the unique characteristic of collective improvisation.
If the bass plays the root, a pianist superimposes a Maj7 built on the 5th and the sax plays the 13th, will hot women notice?
Jazz affirms the noblest aspirations of character, individual discipline, perseverance and innovation.
Jazz goes into my coffee in the morning, in my wine at night.
Live music is best! Make plans to get out and support your local Jazz scene.
Play the music not the instrument.
Jazz improvisation is the art of drawing without an eraser.
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.
Miles Davis and John Coltrane were so cool, if alive today global warming wouldn’t be an issue.
Play what you feel, feel what you play.
The true value of this music lies in an artist’s individual creativity and that unique process of expression which is Jazz.
Jazz has evolved with an inner necessity characteristic of any true art form.
One shouldn’t be in the habit of quoting oneself.
A Jazz Diet will make you hipper, thinner, taller, smarter, richer, happier and more attractive to members of both sexes.
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