![]() ![]() So jazz challenges what we mean in an era so dominated by special effects because jazz musicians understand that, when all the hot air of talking is done, the truest special effect in the arts is always the human being. In our playing we can prove that the ultimate human solution is always some kind of elevated creation. Jazz means we can improvise with individuality and empathy, we can be ourselves while paying attention to others and by counting on them. Jazz is also the music of hope because it proves that we can count on the human being, we can trust in our collaborators to make the best decision right now and in almost every tomorrow. Pull it out of the air, polishing it as it arrives. A team of musicians, with very little written music and depending on very little repetition, can create something right on the spot. Jazz is the music of amen of yes, yes, yes of I hear you!, of That’s what I’m talking about!, of Let’s get to the grits, of I know a place better than this, of All right now! It began in a revolutionary way and has remained revolutionary.
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