POST # 386 Pat Metheny on Keeping Jazz Alive

“let’s keep jazz as folk music. Let’s not make jazz classical music. Let’s keep it as street music, as people’s everyday-life music. Let’s see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they’re living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around. It’s a cliche, but it’s such a valuable one: something that is the most personal becomes the most universal.”