Jazz imitates God's creation - ever evolving. Jazz involves cooperation - It is a community that performs and receives jazz. Each musician is expected to both support the others and shine as an individual. Listeners inspire through their reactions to complete the circle. Church is about community.
Christians are a community.
It's one reason I can feel at home in your church though I'm a guest. Jazz has a range - Sometimes meditative, sometimes celebratory, jazz is a spectrum of emotions and feelings. Without this ability to reflect the full range of human experience, it never would have lasted. Church life reflects this range of experience from the reflective Lent season to the joy of Pentecost, from baptisms to weddings to funerals. Bradley and Ellen, the happy warden following a performance at St. Andrew's Episcopal in Toledo.