Blog | Jazz Innovation

Jeff Perry Guitar

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...

Jeff Perry Guitar

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...

Jeff Perry

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,...

Jeff Perry Guitar

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...

Jeff Perry Guitar

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...

Jeff Perry Guitar

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...

Jeff Perry Guitar

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...

Jeff Perry Guitar

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...

Jeff Perry Guitar

Jazz: America’s Original Diversity Success Story

For over 100 years, jazz musicians have been blazing trails both musically and culturally, bringing about "the world's most innovative...