As AI increasingly takes over the creative space of our society, jazz will become more important. Musicians who can invent on the spot, adjusting to the situation in the room, will be the antidote to a growing mistrust of even precomposed music.
We need to rethink our interaction with the music in light of this, I think. With freedom comes responsibility - no less in music than anywhere else in life. So a great responsibility lies on jazz musicians who hope to give something human and, dare I say, a glimpse of the eternal, to their audiences.
(Music: Ornette Coleman, "Sleep Talking" from Sound Grammar, 2005)
