Enterprise Architecture and All That Jazz

by Jeroen van Tyn

When my friends and I formed our first jazz band, I was simultaneously struck by how easy it was to imagine improvising on a tune, and yet how bewilderingly difficult it was to actually execute something that sounded even remotely good. The constraints of classical compositions, in which every note is preordained, now seemed a comfort compared to the seemingly wide-open possibilities of jazz. I'd jumped headlong into an environment in which I could "play anything I wanted": why then did so much of what came out of my instrument sound like superfluous meandering, compared to the rich, succinct, and brilliantly textured efforts of my jazz heroes?

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Enterprise Architecture and All That JazzWed Oct 10 08:58:11 CDT 2007