Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
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.
I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.
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 don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.
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.
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