Contemporary British jazz musicians’ relationship with the audience: renditions of we-relations and intersubjectivity

When an insightful observer enters a venue and reflects on the events taking place, it is clear that a public performance is influenced by two groups: the audience and the musicians, both of whom have expectations and wishes from one another. Both parties have ideas of how the performance would progress in addition to what they should receive from it. Both have the need to reach out to one another and establish a relationship. It is this complicated interaction and relationship between the audience and the musicians in the context of contemporary British jazz that is the focus here.