Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Performance and Employee Well-Being

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The Unfear Team

Building the Jazz Ensemble

Jazz—a true American art form, an amalgamation, a blending of the musical traditions of immigrants and enslaved people who came to these shores. Jazz is beautiful, complex, and completely unique. And you can’t quite define it, but you always know it when you hear it. As Louis Armstrong is reported to have said when asked, what is jazz? “If you have to ask, you will never know.”

A jazz ensemble—woodwinds, percussion, strings, and vocals—is no different from a team with its many personalities. When an ensemble is on, really and truly on, it is magic—it creates music that touches the soul. It blends the personal styles of each player to create beautiful, unique combinations. It transforms both the ...