Artist: Antoni KarwowskiI never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.
I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.
I've just today come across several passages from this book. (One reviewer said it read like the diary of a born again Woody Allen!)
I think I want to read it.
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Ellie, I've got Blue Like Jazz, and it is worth a read, definitely.
ReplyDeleteAnd I utterly love that painting. The colours are drop-dead gorgeous.
Oh, I'm so glad you like the painting, Cathy. I was terribly pleased to have found it.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the recommendation on the book. I'll definitely make a point of reading it.
I feel that saying I like or dislike jazz is a little bit like saying I like or dislike music or food. I like some and some I don’t. Like music and food, jazz is a musical medium with almost limitless forms of expression. Similar to art it can range from expressionism to non-representational art. For example, I also love the colors as well as the expression and form in the non-representational painting that accompanies this meditation. But I absolutely loathe color field painting. I would even go so far as to say that color field painting is to art as "the emperor’s new clothes” in the fable. Likewise though I love some forms of jazz, I find others to be unappealing and still others to be obnoxious noise.
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