The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art
Wynton MarsalisEverything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.
Wynton MarsalisEthics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note.
Wynton Marsalis