When life gets too routine creativity helps break the mold. When work is overbearing and stress is all consuming it’s important to step back and say, “hey I need some space from this, I need some variation”. Turn on your favorite artist, pick up a guitar, listen to something from another culture. I think that’s why Music is so powerful because it can transcend us in one brief moment. It has nostalgic power as well as power to bring you into the present. When I play I’m almost always present. When you listen to the solos of the jazz greats, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery they were all present in the creation of those solos, playing from the heart so to speak. The progression underneath remains the same it has been played time and time again but the solo adds the flavor, the color, the jam. I love music because it’s like a fabric of many colors. I open up and listen to everything, from Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart to Jay Z. I don’t have to like everything I listen too, but all music has something to say, a piece of culture, a fragment of the heart, a touch of someone’s creativity.
I often wonder what it would be like if an alien culture came to earth and brought their music to the jam. Within our own world we have so many variations in music. Different tones, different rhythms, different notes, something that sounds good to me might sound totally off to somebody else. I guess I’m just curious what type of instruments and sounds the extraterrestrials would like to play. Maybe music is a form of healing to them, maybe music is a religion to them, or maybe it’s illegal, perhaps it’s a form of communication. It is basically all of those things to humans. I know all this is out there but what if?