Oh. My. Goodness. I am on such a high right now after listening to mind blowing live Jazz for almost 2 hours. There are no words for how amazing that feels. I just love Jazz so much.
First, I love the soft ballads that just make you want to close your eyes and fly off into the sky. The way the drums make that shuffle noise just gets me every time. I love how the performers can manipulate their loud and sometimes obnoxious instruments to sound like a deserted green mountain in Ireland. The tone so soft, like the smoothest baby blanket running across your cheeks. The normally harsh Saxophones so open and round with their notes. Their phrases just dabbling along like a little stream running down a tree covered slope. So peaceful.
Second, I love the loud and hard sounds that Saxophones and Trumpets can make. The way the instrumentalist can blast so much breath through a piece of metal and such an amazing and pure sound is produced. Then when you put many instruments together, and let the masters have some fun, the greatest songs are created and never heard again the same exact way because half of the product was improv. I love that a simple instrument can be picked up by a musician with years of experience and together, they create the most beautiful thing. Music.
Third, I love improv! It always blows me away when a musician like Eric Marienthal can pick up an old, dull, beat up looking little Alto Saxophone and play any note he feels like. Infinite possibilities when simply given a key to work with. And somehow, the greatest can find their way through the maze and do it without a single thought to whether it will work. WOO!!! It just amazes me!!!
Fourth, I love the way musicians can gather together, and without any knowledge beforehand of what they are going to play, can hear what is coming and simply know what will and won't sound good. The way two people can just play back and forth and never stop. That happened in the concert I went to tonight. Twice, actually! Between the same two people! The guest Eric Marienthal and the drummer from our very own BYUI Sound Alliance. Twice they had a mind blowing battle between them that sounded as if the greatest saxophone and the greatest drums of all time came together and just played. So, so, so phenomenal. There are hardly words. And that happened twice!!! TWICE!!! Once in a lifetime opportunity right there.
Last thing I wanna say is that I miss having someone to share my love of Jazz with. My brother, who is currently on a mission, plays the Tenor Saxophone and is amazing at it. He loves jazz and when he plays, you can tell that he enjoys it. Unlike the lead Tenor in the band tonight that was so focused on his music that he looked bored and like he wasn't even playing. Which was super obvious, especially when the lead Alto right next to him is jamming out and half dancing in his chair, having the time of his life! And Jerry, oh Jerry, he was the one that you would think would fall off of his chair because of how much he enjoyed playing. What sucks the most is that I really wanted to call someone right after the concert was over and tell them how amazing it was! And the first person I thought of, I can't call! And I can't think of anyone else that would be as enthusiastic about jazz as I am! I love it so much, I can't even say how much! I hope to someday marry a Jazz Saxophonist so he can serenade me and I can go to concerts for free :D
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