Musically, my vocabulary or, what I thought to be ‘my vocabulary,’ becomes a Voice or Voicing of a Greater and More Dynamic Content, not at all fixed and with an Informing Capacity that Powerfully Moves me, illustrating a Rightness or Correctness Deeply Comforting and Assuring, Affirming as well as Informing, regarding that Incomprehensible Understanding and Partnership that was already and always The Case… Yes, perhaps, in this most appreciated Right of Passage, I seem to have ‘lost’ a thing or two… but that ’neighborhood’ of conditions and exceptions, surely gone, has or is now accommodating a more Expansive Provision, Revealing So Much More… But of That, words cannot speak and understandably, you must find and figure that out for yourself… which You Did and so Can and Will in the ‘what’ that remains of your time and space…
And Here Is Why…
That Answer Still Sings in the Neighborhoods of our Life and Living Yours and Mine Both… and You, as a ‘We’ not only Can Hear It, You and I Did, In Fact, Hear It Twice The First Time! Now Is The Appointed Moment in which Intent, personal and collective, was Remembered In and As the Flow of That aforementioned River… which Powerfully Frees mind, allowing the Sacred and Precious Here To Extend Into both past and future… and That, Dear Friends Is Some Apple…
or:
As Yogi Berra replied when asked, ‘Can you explain jazz?’…
Yogi: I can’t, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So, if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it’s wrong.
Interviewer: I don’t understand.
Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can’t understand it. It’s too complicated. That’s what’s so simple about it.
Interviewer: Do you understand it?
Yogi: No. That’s why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn’t know anything about it.
Interviewer: Are there any great jazz players alive today?
Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead. Some would kill for it.
Interviewer: What is syncopation?
Yogi: That’s when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don’t hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be jazz, but only if they’re the same as something different from those other kinds.
Interviewer: Now I really don’t understand. Yogi: I haven’t taught you enough for you to not understand jazz that well!!!
