Jazz Endings, Aesthetic Discourse, and Musical Publics

[...]the following pages consider the work-in-progress of musicians who, while talented and engaged, are relatively inexperienced. The foregoing discus- sion suggests that, as musicians work together, their musical and verbal interactions index both the immediate context of performance and a broader musical public.16 In deploying musical materials, aesthetic discourses, and evocative icons, they simultaneously negotiate their positionality with re- spect to one another and to an imagined public of fellow jazz players. [...]the words "Put your soul into that... like Miles" affirmed the prominent place Davis occupies within the jazz canon and pointed to a stereotypical or iconic association between sounded (black) Americanness and the con- cept of soul.