Monday, August 15, 2016
WHITHER A JAZZ INTERLOCUTOR?
WHITHER A JAZZ INTERLOCUTOR ?
Poets translate natural beauty into verse .
Spirituals decode the searing soul.
Blues uplifts the downtrodden spirit.
Rhythm & blues harmonize human hormones.
Is there no one to transliterate Jazz into sensations, information, news ?
To translate jazz's enigmatic musical riffs , rhythms, melodies into words?
Or must we await our own sensory evolution unto its arcane meanings and into its diverse assemblage?
"Don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing? Do wop ! Do wop!" Really?
Awaiting still the interlocutor of jazz.