Online since 1995. Ken Burns' recent jazz series is only one of the many factors that are producing a crescendo of jazz CD sales all across North America. People are beginning to recognize themselves more and more in the jazz music they hear. It seems fitting that improvised music might be considered the ideal soundtrack for our postmodern times.
Jazz is the art of turning on a dime, being ultimately flexible.
It's having a sure direction while being ever ready to change course. Jazz is the music that best represents the life skill we all practise in postmodern living. It improvises and negotiates life like we do, surfing around what is important and what is not. Like any art, it's all about the essentials of life and what to leave out. Like most of our lives, it represents a form of controlled chaos, but one that operates under the natural constraints of relationship.