Eden’s Garden

So I’m really getting into jazz.  I appreciate it so much.  Jazz is so awesome in the way that its completely about the person playing the music, they make it.  Jazz is different from classical in the way that its not really structured, and therefore the musicians who play it really determine if it will be good, if it will be moving and inspiring. 

I’m listening to Ray Charles duets, its an awesome CD.  I’m listening to the song “fever”  its just great.  Its one of those songs you can’t just sit there and listen to it, you really take part in it, whether you just close your eyes or tap your foot.  Jazz is an experience. 

I love how jazz almost sounds like chaos, its almost confusing, and you wonder whats happened and how it got to sounding like this…and each instrument takes its turn carrying the beat while the others make their runs and create a unique sound to each song.  Its chaos in the midst of order, I mean they have a key that they are playing in, and they can’t go out of that, but they’re free to do what they want within it.

Sometimes I wonder if this can be compared to life, we all have a general direction we’re heading or a general idea for the kind of people that we want to be the things we do and don’t want to be about, and thats our steady beat.  but as for the in-between of all of that, thats for us to create and invent new sounds, a new song.  I think as christians we are good with the beat we have the rythm down, but when it comes to the creating, we’re afraid or hesitant.  We know what we do and don’t want to be about and thats good, but past that, are we able to make up new sounds? invent new things within the structure of our lives, allow some creativity….maybe thats what its about.

I want my life to be like a jazz song, I don’t want clarity just creativity and a trust that God knows where he’s taking me and through it all alllowing what was meant to come out whether through music or writing or anything else, letting it come out… and every once in a while turning on some Ray Charles, closing my eyes, tapping my foot and experiencing some jazz.