"Jazz is an interactive
music, one of the most complex of all human musical interactions. When
saxophonist Ornette Coleman said that the difference between rock and jazz was
that in rock everyone is playing with the drummer whereas in jazz the drummer
is playing with everyone else, he struck at the heart of what is special about
interaction in jazz. There is a pulse, a rhythm, a subdivision of time at work
in well-played jazz, but one that can be manipulated and adjusted by each
player such that the rhythmic expectations of both musicians and audience are
surprised. Jazz is the sound of surprise."
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