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.
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As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.