My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.