My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.
Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.
It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.
If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.
If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.
