“Do not fear mistakes – there are none” – The mistake as surprising experience of creativity in jazz

The creative development of normativity is not an oddity in the field of the arts, but rather the way in which artistic normativity is built. This is one of the most important lessons we can draw from the practice of improvisation in jazz: in artistic practices, one should not be afraid of mistakes because mistakes do not exist, unless we use and consider them as such.