Listen to really good jazz and you'll find that it can take you to a different level of thinking. Your ears open up to the subtle rumble of the string bass, the percussive rhymes of the drum set and the melodious discord that comes together out of the brass and saxes to meld into this incredible surge of rhythm and harmony dancing inside your soul.
Read one of the classic sonnets from literature, something from Shakes, Shelley or Frost and you'll find your thoughts drifting to the words that are so out of character with the quick fix mentality of our modernized world. The simple lilt of phrases penned not to be tweeted or even facebooked are often lost on the mind needing to be filled without even chewing on the thoughts expressed.
It's like Jazz and Sonnets are fixed in time. Both can still hold the undivided attention of the ears and eyes focused upon them. We just don't express ourselves in these ways.
Our ears often struggle to truly listen to all the subtleties brought to light in the Jazz of conversation.
Our eyes often read the print on the screen and take it as the height of our communicative skills. The Sonnet of context is lost on our need for immediacy.
Listened to the first Jazz I've listened to in quite a long time. Hakeem, thank you so much for reminding me of my musical roots! And as I struggle with sleep, a battle I will eventually succumb to for the night, my mind is stirring in the words I've tried to take a little more time to read tonight.
Jazz and Sonnets.
Life and Soul.
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