As Wynton Marsalis explains it,
In American life, you have all of these different agendas. You have conflict all the time. And we’re attempting to achieve harmony through conflict. Which it seems strange to say that, but it’s like an argument that you have with the intent to work something out, not an argument that you have with the intent to argue. And that’s what jazz music is. You have musicians and they’re all standing on a bandstand. Each one has their personality and their agenda. . . . So you have that question of the integrity, the intent, the will to play together. That’s what jazz music is. You have yourself, your individual expression and then you have how you negotiate that expression in the context of that group. And, it’s exactly like democracy.
(Quoted from page 192 of Musique et language chez Rousseau, by Claude Dauphin. Voltaire Foundation, 2004.)
For a brief biography of Wynton Marsalis, click here. For images of or relating to Wynton Marsalis, click here.
For a brief biography of Claude Dauphin, click here.
In American life, you have all of these different agendas. You have conflict all the time. And we’re attempting to achieve harmony through conflict. Which it seems strange to say that, but it’s like an argument that you have with the intent to work something out, not an argument that you have with the intent to argue. And that’s what jazz music is. You have musicians and they’re all standing on a bandstand. Each one has their personality and their agenda. . . . So you have that question of the integrity, the intent, the will to play together. That’s what jazz music is. You have yourself, your individual expression and then you have how you negotiate that expression in the context of that group. And, it’s exactly like democracy.
(Quoted from page 192 of Musique et language chez Rousseau, by Claude Dauphin. Voltaire Foundation, 2004.)
For a brief biography of Wynton Marsalis, click here. For images of or relating to Wynton Marsalis, click here.
For a brief biography of Claude Dauphin, click here.
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