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J A Z Z M U S I C Jazz - an American art form and an international phenomenon! Jazz
is not the result of choosing a tune, but an ideal that is created first in the mind, inspired by one's passion and willed
next in playing music! Jazz music is not on websites or in books or even written down in music script; it is in the act of
creating the form itself that we truly find Jazz. Art in general hosts an invitation for the viewer or listener to invest
a personal attentiveness. Unlike other mediums, the nature of Music is tipped toward the emotional rather the intellectual.
It is this personal connection with music and all art that enables the patron to experience what is being communicated, rather
than just taking in the information. While all forms of music share this quality, Jazz, with it's unique characteristic of
collective improvisation, exemplifies it. Other forms of music involve the listener into the realm of the completed work as
it was scored, Jazz draws the onlooker to a deeper league, that of a partnership, so to speak, of being along when each new
phrase is created, when each inspired motive is often the interactive result of audience involvement its to dynamic component
is attributed defining be Jazz can the improvisation "newness" which music's -. music proficiency tones diversities; orchestral
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