First, you learn your instrument.
Then you learn music.
Then you forget both of those and just blow.
-Dizzy Gillespie
The term vehicle was first proposed in jazz by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie as a near-synonym for the tune, describing the improviser’s use of the tune as a machine he rides during his improvisation*. In this studio, jazz is the “vehicle” for generating structured architectural space.
The process unfolds in three successive stages:
Stage 01: an interpretive analysis and distillation of a masterpiece jazz composition's underlying structural and thematic components.
Stage 02: a series of articulated diagrams, projections, and models are generated from the musical analysis.
Stage 03: the conceptual strategies, procedures, elements, ordering systems, vocabularies, and formats discovered in the previous two stages are synthesized into a Jazz Studio structure configured within a self-referential site.
*Jerry Coker, Listening to Jazz. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1978). p.9.
