An explosion of improvisation and jamming will overpower the University of Louisville in a music festival called Jazz Week this week. For those of us, who listen to music, often claim to know what jazz is. Tracy explains jazz musicians have total creative freedom. It is understood in the jazz world that the players do not have to follow a recipe for the songs. Each player can improvise, which leads the other players to improvise, so they work off each other.
Jazz is teamwork.
It allows a great deal of spontaneity. The player gets to be both interpreter and composer. The idea comes with the band. Much of Louisville must think so, because Jazz Week has become very successful during its short life. It gets bigger and bigger each year.