Jeff Perry Guitar
No-lose Diversity
I recently had the opportunity to present on what I call DCI (Diversity, Creativity & Innovation) – my variation on DEI – for a group of...
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Jeff Perry Guitar
- Oct 17, 2023
- 2 min
Black Church, White Church: Diverse Music/Worship Traditions
I, as we say in the Church, am blessed to play every Sunday for three different churches. Two are Black-led, urban Evangelical Covenant,...
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Jeff Perry Guitar
- Mar 22, 2023
- 1 min
Jazz Innovation Strikes a Chord
I recently had the opportunity to present Jazz Innovation: Diversity as Fuel and received some wonderful feedback. There is a great story...
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Jeff Perry Guitar
- Mar 15, 2023
- 2 min
Diversity is Petroleum?
Diversity is to Inclusion as Petroleum is to Gasoline? Yes indeed. Petroleum is a natural resource. However, in its raw state it does not...
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Jeff Perry
- Feb 1, 2023
- 4 min
The Sound of Black History: Jazz and the American Trinity
If documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is correct, many centuries, even millennia from now, America will be remembered for the Constitution,...
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Jeff Perry Guitar
- Jan 10, 2022
- 2 min
Why Do The Behaviors That Drive Innovation Come So Naturally to Musicians?
As shared by the authors of Eat, Sleep, Innovate, a culture of innovation is one where the behaviors that drive innovation come...
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Jeff Perry Guitar
- Aug 19, 2021
- 4 min
A New Diversity – Religious vs Secular Music
After going to a magnet school in inner city St. Paul for my senior year of high school, studying music in Boston for a few years, and...
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Jeff Perry Guitar
- Aug 9, 2021
- 9 min
Jazz & Innovation: How The Jazz Culture Fosters Creativity
Innovate - n. To begin or introduce something new; be creative (American Heritage Dictionary) What do you think of when you hear the word...
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Jeff Perry Guitar
- Jul 27, 2021
- 1 min
Organic Diversity, the music way
Something dawned on me after our most recent presentation by Jazz Innovation. It's one of those things after-the-fact that I wish I would...
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Jeff Perry Guitar
- Jul 19, 2021
- 1 min
First Post-pandemic presentation
On Friday, July 16 Jazz Innovation had our first opportunity to present at the National Auctioneers Association's annual conference at...
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Jeff Perry Guitar
- Jan 27, 2021
- 6 min
Jazz: America’s Original Diversity Success Story
(Originally published on HR.com) For over 100 years, jazz musicians have been blazing trails both culturally and creatively, bringing...
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