Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?
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Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
I think that's what I love about jazz is that you can do what you want, and you're allowed to mess up.
Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.
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