Last night Mary and I went to a jazz performance that was one of the most invigorating demonstrations of musical improvisation i’ve ever seen in my life.

Most of you know i’m not the biggest fan of Jazz music to begin with, but last night had to be one of best musical experiences ever.

Highlights:
– Overall presentation was awesome.
– The tuba and chelo were the best out of all of the performers, which sucks because the trumpet player is the band leader and i didn’t care to much for him. There was this part where the tuba player growled into his tuba and it actually carried itself through the horn. Then he gave this barbaric yawlp because he had not done what he wanted to do, but at the time i didn’t know that. I had assumed he was just in the moment because everyone in the band had stopped playing giving ackowledgement to him for his solo to begin. The solo just ripped through the crowd and you heard spontaneous gasps and quiet ackowledgements of how good this guy was. I’ve never really enjoyed the soulfull baritone of the tuba. This made me want to play Tuba. He was just losing it on stage.
-The chelist performed his solo at one point he looked like what i would assume Bach would have looked like creating his work. Frantic hair standing high upon his scalp. he would switch between plucking and bowing the chello fluidly. You see this is what i understood from last night.
The musicians were passionate about their music. I felt their passion. It was an awe-inspiring night.
-There was this song called “bury me standing” that incorporated frantic chellist machinations with the scratching of a symbol and the repetitive notions of the tuba playing base… bum… bum… bum… consistently keeping time.. every four measures you heard a double base beat in the background.. those were the only stable parts to the music it always came back to the tuba and the base drum playing time and beat. It was a slow tune with the horn spouting out a few delicate notes spasticly. It was existential in nature, due to the lack of entanglement. This is a song i want Trey to hear.

ok enough of the jazz