“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.”
-Louis Armstrong

“Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.”
- Francoise Sagan

“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”
-Ornette Coleman

They say that jazz is the only truly American music. And the sad part is that many Americans do not like it, understand it, or want it around.

I love jazz. As a trumpet player, there is something about the soothing sound of blues - emphatically pulling at your heart - the sass of a playful saxophone, the mournful bass, the proud piano, and the wild drums that when combined into the style of jazz create something so youthfully human. So much emotion swirling around.
The wild fun of those teenage years, the incredible pain of a first broken heart, the desire for an eternal summer, rebellion, wisdom, creativity and PLAY.
There is something to be said in human endeavors where play is the key ingredient. The desire to do something for it's own sake. Jazz takes this idea and runs like the wind with it.
So go play.