Do Something Creative Everyday
When you feel out of sync/balance, I encourage you to press play on Adam Rudolph’s “Moving Pictures” (above) and read Glenn O’Brien’s “James Brown and Occular Footwork” (below) out loud…
“A Beat is contagious. Because life is vibration and sometimes you’re on the same wavelength and sometimes you tune in a frequency that’s a revelation, that lifts you up and you’re down with that. Entire cultures transmitted via jungle telegraph, vast libraries transported across seas via drumbeat.
Beat [is] about the Beat. Reconnection of body and soul with the body and soul of knowledge. Beat in physics occurs at the intersection of two waves, so maybe we can’t expect Beat to be a constant.
Beat occurs in time and has its ups and downs. There is no separating Beat from the Beat. Beat is a religion divined by a rhythm section’s sensory perceptions of God and prophesied through the cosmic connection of the soloist.
Beat is always now now, like now. That moment of perfect tone and timing. Syncopated, right between when you most and least expect it. “
I support this. Also, reminder to my Indpls people, the Jazz Fest is this weekend… Get involved! I’ve had many great experiences at the Jazz Fest, most notably getting to see James Brown jam. Stuff like that you just never forget.
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