The audience then demanded four encores. To name a few. My friend was polite but, understandably, chagrined by this response. What's great about jazz is that everybody can play it, that everybody can play it together, and that it can go wherever it goes, be what it will, and the form still holds together. Chet Baker could jam on short notice with Dave Brubeck, as he did at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival, or with Van Morrison and Elvis Costello, as he did at Ronnie Scott's in the mid-1980s.
Jazz is capable of great raucousness and intensely personal expressions.
The ultimate extension, elocution, and refinement of effort is elegance, where just doing it gives pleasure of itself. That's about as far as we can get by Life. During the three times I saw the preview tape, my foot never stopped keeping time with the music. Inc. All Rights Reserved.