Jazz music is many things to many people. Its rich heritage and spirit of improvisation stretch back to New Orleans in the early 1900s. A unique stew of European song forms, African polyrhythms and blues were coming together to create new rhythms and melodic ideas: ragtime and swing led to bebop and cool, fusion and funk. At its heart, jazz is an idea – a notion that human expression and experimentation deserve to be at the forefront of the live music experience.
Jazz players are thinkers, tinkerers, arrangers, people deeply in love with the human soul. Just as J Dilla (the famous producer for hip-hop legends Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul) reached deep into his jazz vinyl collection to craft his 'beats', so it is that we are drawn to the collaborative talents of jazz players. No musical genre has been untouched by jazz. In turn, jazz draws the world's musical ideas back into its many-ness.
Jazz players are thinkers, tinkerers, arrangers, people deeply in love with the human soul. Just as J Dilla (the famous producer for hip-hop legends Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul) reached deep into his jazz vinyl collection to craft his 'beats', so it is that we are drawn to the collaborative talents of jazz players. No musical genre has been untouched by jazz. In turn, jazz draws the world's musical ideas back into its many-ness.