to the dance of life
To celebrate jazz month and this past weekend’s Denton Jazz Festival, I give you Stanley Clarke, one of contemporary jazz music’s most amazing bass players.
I love how he talks about the limitations of his instrument. He embraces them and spends the time to figure out what does sound good.
Psst–If you find this post interesting and think others might as well, would you mind taking a minute to stumble it? It would mean a lot to me.
I’m up today at the Tapestry blog talking about why I’m a Jazz Chrstian.
From the post:
"I call myself a Jazz Christian because jazz music has structure, and
this structure gives freedom and improvisation. It constantly invents.
No two performances can ever be alike. It is infinitely interesting."
It’s fitting that I write on this today. It’s Charlie Parker’s birthday.
I tell tales--tall ones, short ones, fat ones, skinny ones. Some call it compulsive lying. I call it writing.
