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Jazz-Inspired Essays for Those Building Their Own Lives

How do creatives—planners, marketers, designers, creators—love jazz? What kind of inspiration does jazz provide them? This book is an inspirational essay by screenwriter Kim Min-ju, who has consistently sought and documented the answers to these questions.
We talk about jazz music and musicians, as well as creators from various fields such as film, painting, design, cooking, and branding.
There are jazz songs we are familiar with, such as “Fly Me to the Moon” and “Moon River,” and there are also stories about jazz and musicians we have encountered but not known specifically about.
However, since the life stories contained within it are not different from our own, those who were not familiar with jazz will be able to naturally incorporate jazz into their lives, while those who enjoyed jazz will be able to experience a new side of jazz.

Over the years, I've slowly come to realize that jazz isn't just music, it's more of an attitude or a spirit.
The music of a jazz band, which completes a single piece of music with different instruments, taught me how valuable it is to have a conversation with others based on respect and trust.
Improvisation, which involves breaking away from the familiar and creating music by focusing solely on the sensations that arise in that moment, has helped me break free from the rigid mindset of trying to confine and control many aspects of life.
Stories of jazz musicians who broke away from decades of established trends and invented their own grammar have been a source of inspiration for my own creations.
Sometimes, when that inspiration turned into an obsession to create something as great as them, I would let my body and mind relax and surrender to the swing rhythms of smooth jazz.
---From "Prologue"

There are dozens of reasons why Miles Davis is so revered.
But before that, it would be better to first hear the answer he himself gave.
This is the answer Miles Davis gave to a white man who asked him what accomplishments had brought him there at the Ray Charles Memorial Concert at the White House in 1987.
“I changed the music four or five times.
“What important thing have you done besides being born white?”

Yes, that's right.
Miles Davis' character is a game changer.
He appeared whenever jazz music was not changing and was stuck in its existing form, and he changed the landscape of jazz by making a bold mark.
People who enjoyed jazz only realized that jazz had been stagnant in a certain form for a while when he presented a new attempt.
His style of pursuing bold changes at unexpected times could have easily been dismissed as an overly unfamiliar attempt, but thanks to his perfect trumpet playing skills that allow one to feel, "Ah, this is jazz," after hearing just one note, his attempt was accepted not simply as something new, but as a new and beautiful change at the same time.
---From "Think Different"

Q.
What qualities of jazz inspire your design work?
A.
I think that not only design, but all kinds of creative activities are connected to the nature of jazz.
In jazz, there is a theme and a main melody, and soloists add their own color to it through repetition and variation.
Design is also a process of creating results through repetition and variation on the basis of basic principles and central visual clues.
Besides that, improvisation, sense, individuality, and freedom are all good words.
Q.
Actually, looking at the designer's work, I feel that he values ​​spontaneous ideas.
A.
That's the way it is.
Rather than forcing something together or constructing it logically, I like the spontaneity and speed of discovering things from the many things scattered around me.
---From "How to Add Your Own Color to Repetition and Variation"

"Summertime" is a representative aria from American composer George Gershwin's jazz opera, Porgy and Bess.
As I said before, the fact that it is rare is also evidence that the director considers it important.
In this film, where classical music such as Beethoven's "Moonlight" and "Cello Sonata No. 1" and Bach's "Toccata in E minor" are mentioned in great detail, why does jazz music have such a prominent presence?
The answer is the Criterion Collection (author's note.
You can find the interview video with director Edward Yang in the Blu-ray released by (a company that develops and sells classic and art films with a long history on media such as laserdiscs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs).
He said the film's English title, "A One And A Two," was inspired by "what jazz musicians always mutter before a jam session," adding, "Life should be like a jazz rhyme."
---From "Sometimes You Have to Go Through Cruel Seasons"

I like the line by Haruki Murakami, who wrote, “Chet Baker’s music smells like youth.”
Even among youth, it is a dangerous youth.
It's not just his looks that have earned him the nickname "James Dean of Jazz."
The loose sound of the trumpet, as if soaked in rain, and the trembling voice, as if confessing his life full of wounds, bring to mind a young man who seems ready to collapse at any moment.
Chet Baker's star power, which was so brilliant that he beat out other famous jazz musicians of the time and won first place in a popularity poll, continues to this day with the millennial generation's craze for jazz vinyl records.
Feel the comfort and love that this lonely soul conveys in his music, a life that was ultimately tragic.

---From "JAZZ MUSICIAN 15"