Mind and Soul

Portrait of my husband . . . he plays jazz. Jazz is both structured and improvised. It is about the mind and the soul. It took me many years to really understand and enjoy jazz in it's various forms. Today I walk away from something called jazz that isn't. A CD made today is rarely jazz because it's rarely improvised. It may still be very good music so I'm not knocking anyone.
To watch and listen to a musician who speaks this language is akin to entering another universe where the mode of communication is alien, but the fact that it is happening is so there it can't be missed. I must add that, in fact, it actually doesn't happen all the time even with good... even great jazz artists. But if you are lucky enough to be present when it does, it is completely transporting.