What Is Jazz? Summer 2004 Presenter: Sherol Chen

Louis Armstrong 1901–1971 Trumpet/Cornet/Voice “Man, if you have to ask what it is, you’ll never know.”

Billie Holiday 1915–1959 Voice “I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.”

Stan Getz Tenor Saxophone “It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. “ “Musically, I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.”

John Coltrane Tenor Saxophone “My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being … When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups … I want to speak to their souls.”

Wynton Marsalis 1961-present Trumpet “Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don’t agree with what they’re playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.” “As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound.”

FF PaLaDiN Online Jazz Research

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What is Jazz? FF PaLaDiN: i figured out what jazz is Tim: yea? FF PaLaDiN: it's like a LANGUAGE FF PaLaDiN: with distinctive dialects FF PaLaDiN: a LANGUAGE of emotions FF PaLaDiN: much like computer science, implementing languages of logic Tim: hmm FF PaLaDiN: I finally see the tie between my two seemingly divergent interests Tim: you're a nerd FF PaLaDiN: im a passionate nerd Tim: indeed you are Tim: jazz is like a LANGUAGE Tim: i like that

Thank You Thank You Sherol Chen Major: B.S. Computer Science 2005 Minors: Jazz, Philosophy Faculty Advisor: Dr. Richard Hanley Department of Philosophy