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Book Launch - People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz is Now! &The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation

Guelph Jazz Festival, ICASP

Published: 2014-08-19

Remarks by Daniel Fischlin (Series Editor, Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice, Duke University Press)
People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz is Now! (edited by Ajay Heble and Rob Wallace)
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation (co-authored by Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, and George Lipsitz)

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Improvisation is, simply put, being and living this very moment. No one can hide in music, and improvising in music is to be truly in this very moment and being completely yourself, with all your qualities and faults. It is probably the most honest state for a human being to be in.

– John McLaughlin in an interview with Daniel Fischlin.