Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.
One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.