Jazz standards recorded with harp quintet, 2004

In 2004, I began to grapple with standard jazz practice, something I had not done since I was a teenager. I could no longer suppose that its persistence was the result of doctrinaire musicians in positions of influence, for it continued to thrive spontaneously in my own imagination even though I had neglected it for years in favor of more experimental gambits. It seemed to me that the invention of the solo had yielded a formally rigorous abelian system that, like language, persisted subjectively by virtue of being defined at the moment of execution and thereby satisfying cognitive constraints radically. Jazz is therefore not a style or a gamut of styles but the practice of intervening in the topology of these constraints. - Jackson Moore