The early soloist Sidney Bechet, calls jazz the sound of freedom. “It’s the sounds that emulate [sic] from the emancipated slaves. The newfound freedom that they found in the South of the United States, and they had to make sense of that freedom. They had to turn ugliness into beauty, and to rebuild their lives.”
Jazz musicians “have one of the riskiest jobs in the world, because failure is just around the corner at every single turn,” “As a matter of fact, you can think about jazz as just a series of failures.”
“When jazz musicians are really improvising, we are pushing the limits almost over the precipice into chaos. “We’re up here and need to deeply listen to one another, to hear each other’s stories, and where we’re going, and work with that together as a team. If we don’t listen, that’s when chaos kicks in, and that’s when bad jazz happens.”
Chris Washburne
Majicman Notes 
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