Jubilee | The JuJu Exchange Quartet | TEDxChicago
Jazz, as exemplified by the Juju Exchange, is characterized by the creative reimagining of limits across genres, audience expectations, and instruments. The core function of the Juju Exchange is to continue this tradition of embracing and exploring those very limits.
## Speakers & Context
- Julian Reid and the Juju Exchange are presenting an event celebrating a "Jubilee."
- The Juju Exchange is positioned as an inheritor of the history of jazz.
## Theses & Positions
- Jazz fundamentally involves the *"creative embrace and reimagining of limits"* across several domains.
- These limits include:
- Limits of genres.
- Limits of audience expectations.
- Limits of musical instruments.
- Limits of how people engage with each other in society.
## Named Entities
- **Juju Exchange** — The group presenting the material.
## Concepts & Definitions
- **Jazz** — A musical tradition defined by the creative reimagining and embrace of limits.
- **Jubilee** — The event being celebrated.
## Verbatim Moments
- *"how y'all doing wonderful my name is Julian Reid and we are the juju exchange"*
- *"since its beginning jazz has been about the creative embrace and reimagining of limits"*
- *"limits of genres limits of audiences expectations limits of musical instruments and limits even of how we engage each other in society"*
- *"the juju exchange is part of that heritage and so invites you today to do that with us as we celebrate Jubilee"*