“Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.” SometimesIndividualMusicSupportActivityPerformancesJazzFlyingBackgroundsArtisticProvidingInnovativeParticipantsRepetitiveTime FliesFlying Free Book:Composing a Life Source: Composing a Life
“Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.” ArtTodayFormIndividualLossMusicGroupsJazzContact Author:Dave Brubeck
“Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in the history of jazz there had never been one man who influenced all the instruments.” MenIndividualMusicianJazz Book:Celebrating Bird: the triumph of Charlie Parker Source: Celebrating Bird: the triumph of Charlie Parker