Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
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.