DownBeat February 1992 [antikvár]

ON THE BEAT DOWPEAT February 1992 Dancing On A by Dave Helland don't remember who defined jazz as an unpopular form of American music: Murray The K? Tommy Mottola? Ambrose Bierce? While, that may apply to CD sales, judging from the response of personnel managers, business consultants, and professors of business administration to Antonio Garcia's "Musical Self-Defense" (see "Chords" p. 8), the small jazz ensemble is becoming THE model for successful prob-lem-solving organizations. Garcia's main point ("On The Beat" Oct. '91) was that music education is directly tied to "academic excellence and the quality of a community's work force." He contends that bright students and music programs go together. But he also pointed out that a number of businesses use musical examples in their training programs. Motorola, for instance, called on the Northern Illinois Jazz Ellington's Syncopated Problem-Solvers: Johnny Hodges (left) and Otto Hardwick Program, which Garcia coordinates, to help illustrate the concepts of leadership, creativity, and teamwork through music for both their U.S. managers and their top international executives. These ideas are illustrated in Creativity In Organizations—A Jazz Musician's Perspective, a video from the Center For Creative Leadership (CCL), featuring trumpeter Bobby Bradford. Bradford and CCL's Stanley S. Gryskiewicz look at the process of innovation in a fresh setting, that of "a service industry for which there is a particularly urgent, unending requirement for innovation—the jazz music industry." As Bradford explains, "The jazz group expects mistakes and prepares itself to 'dance on a slippery floor.'" The 30-minute video with an accompanying study guide is geared toward an audi- ence of team managers and problem-solvers. Jazz is used as a context in which to discuss innovation and problem-solving. For example, Duke Ellington is seen as a leader who hired workers—musicians—for the uniqueness of their voices and their understanding of the music. He would set a goal— performing a piece he had written—and then leave the workers free to make any responsible decision concerning the music. "Jazz asks you to listen more carefully and to come back repeatedly to look at it again," concludes Bradford. Substitute "a democracy" or "the market" for "jazz" and you begin to understand the lesson that jazz has to teach the society-at-large. For more information on this video, contact the Center for Creative Leadership, Box P-1, Greensboro, NC 27402-1660. DB DOWPEAT February 1 9 9 2 - Volume 59 - No. 2 PUBLISHER Kevin Maher ASSOC. PUBLISHER Frank Allayer MAHAGIHG EDITOR John Eptniaod ASSOCIATE EDITOR Dave IHeiiand DESiGH Jay Crawford Design PRODUCTIOH MGR. Gloria Baldwin CIRCULATIOH MGR. Elaine Rizleris CIRCULATION ASST. Ginger Glese PRESIDENT Jack Malner CONTRIBUTORS: tarry Birnbaum, Fred Boucfiard, Mictiaei Bourne, Torri Copi, Owen Cordle, Lauren Deulsch, Joiin Diliberto, Enid Färber, Leonard Feather, Mitchell Feldman, Andy Freeberg, Elaine Guregian, Frank-John Hadley, Peler Kostakis, Arl Lange, John Litweiler, Howard Mandel, John McOonough, Bill Milkowski, Paul Nalkin, Dan Ouelletle, Ben Sandmel, Gene Sanloro, Milchell Seidel, Bill Shoemaker, Jack Sohmer, Stephanie Slein, Robin Tolloson, Ron Welburn, Peto WolcJifig, Kevin Whitehead, Josef Woodard, Scott Yanow CORRESPONDENTS: Albany, NY, Georgia Urban; Atlanta, Dorothy Pearce; Austin, Michael Point; Baltimore, Fred Douglass; Boston, Fred Bouchard; Buffalo, John P. Lockhart; Chicago, Jim De Jong; Cincinnati, Bob Nave; Detroit, Michael G. Nastos; Las Vegas, Brian Sanders; Los Angeles, Zan Stewart; Minneapolis, Mary Snyder; Nashville, Dave Jenkins: New Orleans, Joel Simpson; Philadelphia, Russell Woessner; Phoenix, Robert Henschen; Pitlsburgh, David J. Fabilli; San Francisco, Michael Handler; Seattle, Joseph R. Murphy; Toronto, Mark Miller; Vancouver, Vern Monlgomery; Washinglon, DC, W. A. Brower; Argentina, Max Seligmann; Australia, Eric Myers; Brazil, Christopher Pickard; Finland, Roger Freundlich; Greal Brilain, Brian Priestley; India, Vinod Advani; Italy, Ruggero Stiassi; Jamaica, Maureen Sheridan; Japan, Siioichi Yul, Netherlands, Jatip Ludoko; Norway, Randi Hultin; Senegambia, Oko Draime; South Africa, Howiird Bolllno; Sweden, Lots Lystedt. 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