Lost in the woods.
Up until recently, I had a dear friend named Ray who was really into jazz.
The important part: you had to be in the know to access any of this.
A pause here for that name: The Deku Trio.
I was at this show, listening along, and realising I was absolutely not in the know.
Have you ever listened to music you don’t really understand in public?
People were applauding at what seemed to be completely random moments.
People were nodding at one another and blithely acknowledging events that I had not even spotted as they occurred.
After a while, my ignorance, while shameful, became kind of thrilling too.
Part of me wants more of that from any jazz I listen to now.
I want to be in the know one day!
Zelda’s Lullaby becomes a glass staircase rising through the dreamy night and I’m right there with it.
We’re all lost in the woods together.
I don’t think she was being anything other than literal.
It’s got geometry and surfaces.
It has nooks and dens.
This is part of his fight with Monopolated Light and Power, and it’s not over.
He has a radio-phonograph and he plans to have more.
Now that’s jazz, I reckon.
I give a shot to understand what I am hearing when I listen to Sun Ra.
Again, these things aren’t remotely the same, but the engagement with both is somewhat similar.
