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Musical collaboration is spontaneous, knowledgeable, and courageous.
Playing jazz isn’t simply a matter of playing what is on the page. You have to be able to create, innovate, and think fast. So much of it lies on risk taking and getting out of your comfort zone. You could easily play the same solo full of the same memorized phrases over and over again because you are comfortable with it but after a while it ceases to mean anything to the soloist. The best solos are always when the musician lets go of all fears and everything holding them back and just plays from the heart.
If you can just memorize a solo and sound like you know what you’re doing, why bother ever making things up on the spot and risk making a mistake?
Mistakes can and will be made, but jazz people deem it worth the risk, since the successes are so satisfying.
Playing jazz and not making any mistakes is impossible. Those who are afraid of failing or sounding bad don’t get very far.
If so much of jazz is failing and getting out everything that sounds bad first, why play?
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Art exerts a powerful and mysterious pull.
Most jazz musicians have that recognizable story of why they do what they do. It’s that incomparable moment of inspiration where they discovered their love of jazz or became certain that they wouldn’t want to do anything else. Once you fall in love with it, there’s no going back.
How does this apply on an economic standpoint?
Aside from taking risks, economics relies heavily on making snap decisions and being innovative. You have to keep on creating if you want to be relevant. If you come up with something that has already been done before, nothing will come out of it unless you bring something new to the idea. If failure scares you your ability to be bold and think outside of the box will be greatly inhibited.
Bolded sections from:
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-virtues-of-jazz-john-coltrane-by-douglas-groothuis.php#.VC1UC_ldVu4
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2009/11/jazz_economics_audience_research_michel_camilo.html
I love what you did with the combination of jazz and economists, by focusing your post on the jazz perspective and then adding in the economist point of view you managed to be creative and keep the readers attention. Not throwing a whole bunch of facts and sources at us, but rather dropping in a few quotes, was perfect and complimented your writing perfectly. Well done.
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