Listening to Jazz Guitar

Jazz is good for me. There is something going on around the business of imprecision that makes music human.

I spent enough time around synthesizers and MIDI several years ago to know the inhumanity that is so easy to produce. Right now I feel like it is human imprecision that gives the music the real interest. This jazz is brain candy. What my mind is doing as I listen is predicting where, when,how and why the next note is going to be.

I have no doubt that what I am writing about is old, old stuff for people in music. But I am not there. I am a consumer. Maybe I am a maker, too, but not for the sake of the music.

Wow. I am getting somewhere tonight. I have struggled with music forever. Maybe this is why. Maybe music for me is not about music, but about the mind.

Just now stopped by piano of Maurice Vander on Blue Eyes set with Birelli Lagrene. Just stopped cold. What piano lacks in pitch imprecision seems to be made up for in the shear number of variables per minute available in timing and dynamics.

Father God, thank you so much for how you made us for music and music for us. I know you like music, because I like music and you made me like you.