JAZZ IS LIFE
Swing into life with with a boogie infusion, take less time to sort out the mess and confusion,
face up and corral and challenge the days tribulations,
hide them away forget calm and perfect chordal creations,
expect next the dents that will stride into our dissonant moments, reconvene reconstruct readjust recompense, listen again and again til that Coltrane solo makes sense, it’s my favorite thing his greatness never relents
it’s not Top 40 or love songs with sugary riffs,the circle of life sometimes is bent to an ellipse, take time to dig into why modal Miles exists , That historical LP none will ever eclipse
Life’s truth proceeds in an Epistrophy measure, like when you find genius conveyed as Monk’s music builds pleasure there’s metaphor and more, note the organized chaos in a disharmonious Thelonius score. Or bet Stan Getz has The Sound in any Philly Arena or when he passes each one in Brazil Ipanema. Thus Said, To Improvisationally be simply polite, life IS Jazz so
Jazz must be Life
Bobby O