I am hoping that my daughter, Maya Lucia, takes up an interest in music like me and maybe does something I could never do, like play piano in a really good jazz quartet. We listen to lots of jazz at home, and when Maya was in utero we played lots of jazz in the house in hopes she would come out swinging. Artist Brian Cote poses with some of his paintings at the Dunlap Gallery on Brod Street. I would have to say that Dave Brubeck is an excellent choice as a representative of jazz perfection. His music is innovative, intelligent and timeless.
Jazz continues to be a successful musical form because it is what it is.
It is music in its purest form, full of emotion and primal force. I think jazz as I think of painting. Jazz seems to me to be constructed in the same manner as a painting, or at least the way in which I paint. The structure of jazz is always built on a solid foundation. But it is not the foundation the listener is usually attracted to.