Complicated Sounds: ‘Really the Blues’

To anybody that isn't very familiar with jazz in general and wants to explore it, I have a fun suggestion: Take your time to read Miles Davis' autobiography over the next few weeks while listening to some of the artists/music he mentions. First the Dizzy and Bird that he absolutely worshiped, and then his contemporaries that he liked and hated.

I've done this a couple of times so far and it's great every single time. It's hard to put that book down, and even harder to turn off the music.

Instrumental music is a language spoken in many dialects. If it is pushed behind lyrics with contrary or confusing meanings, they can be safely ignored. The dialects may be hard to understand at first, but experience will decipher ... because at heart the language is about the lived human condition. But only for those whose emotions are cut off or gone missing, or the victims of self-deception. Music can't lie.