The Jazz Session \u00bb Sonny Rollins on the relevance of jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI think that the relevance of jazz depends on what you think jazz is. For instance, if you think that jazz is a piano trio playing in a small nightclub \u2014 they\u2019re good musicians, maybe have a girl singer \u2014 and you come in and there are people smoking and sitting at tables \u2026 if that is your conception of jazz then of course jazz is not relevant, because that refers to a time and place. Jazz is something which is much bigger. Jazz has to do with freedom of expression. So is jazz still relevant? Of course, because there are always people trying to express themselves in music. I think of jazz as having the big umbrella, so that a lot of styles of music that have merged over the years all fall under the umbrella of jazz. The act of trying to create something musically and spontaneously is something that is a part of life. It\u2019s like the weather \u2014 it\u2019s always there. Jazz as something that fits into a narrow little remembrance, no, that kind of jazz is not relevant. But jazz is as relevant today as the yearning for people to be free. That\u2019s how relevant jazz is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The act of trying to create something musically and spontaneously is something that is a part of life. It\u2019s like the weather \u2014 it\u2019s always there. Jazz as something that fits into a narrow little remembrance, no, that kind of jazz is not relevant. But jazz is as relevant today as the yearning for people to be free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandellos.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandellos.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandellos.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandellos.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandellos.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/vandellos.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"http:\/\/vandellos.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandellos.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandellos.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandellos.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}