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.