Working things out

Tommy Smith, Course Leader of Jazz here at Royal Conservatoire of Music, sends his friends regular "Quotes from the Road". 

Here's one 'Whittaker' liked:-

"Jazz also reminds you that you can work things out with other people. It's hard, but it can be done. When a group of people try to invent something together, there's bound to be a lot of conflict. Jazz urges you to accept the decisions of others. Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow-but you can't give up, no matter what. It is the art of negotiating change with style. The aim of every performance is to make something out of whatever happens-to make something together and be together."

Wynton Marsalis

• Marsalis recordings in the Whittaker Library

• And here's a book that we're ordering today - To a Young Jazz Musician, Letters from the Road, by Wynton Marsalis himself.
• Marsalis website - http://wyntonmarsalis.org/