The Luxury of Music

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Some-one once said to me: "I like Luxury music".

This got me thinking....

What is Luxury music?

What is Luxury?
What is Music?

When it comes down to it at the end of the day, all music is luxury be-cause the privilege of being able to have consistent auditory inter-course with sounds which are a derivative of the diverse and individual bodily sounds Mother Earth makes in in-deed the epic peak of luxury.

All Music is luxury.
All luxury is Music.
All Music is life.
All life is Music.

....... in her fascinating myriads of pseudo-utopian pockets.


Let us talk Music.
Let us talk J-A-Z-Z.

Let us talk about how it caresses your senses through the auditory high-Way. . . .

Jazz.

The merge of musical forces that produce a sound solo smooth, it is like Dark soft Chocolate that has swirls of the Finest Cognac in it.

Jazz.

How do we begin?

Do we talk about the swing band?

The cacophony of seemingly distorted sounds which when brought together be-Comes some-Thing magical.

What about the "bluesy" kinda Jazz?

I mean the Billy Holiday and Ray Charles kinda Jazz.


The Jazz I speak of,  is the Jazz that is bourne from the deepest  depth of man's soul.

The Jazz I speak of,  is the Jazz that pull you in, envelopes you, embraces you.

The Jazz I speak of,  is the Jazz that says, "Welcome Home" when you listen to it.

This is the Jazz I speak of.

If your Jazz does not say this to you, then. . . .

Comments

  1. Tele David Ogundeko20 November 2011 at 20:37

    The luxury of music, in my words, extends beyond one genre of music. I believe as long as it's got rhythm and soul then it is plushed with auditory pleasure; a luxury few can attain.

    Jazz, nevertheless, is the founding element behind all great genres of music. It is the bedrock of soul, lounge, and bossa nova. Jazz is contemporary classical music. Jazz is the unbridled play of the soul as it ventures through the wild-scape of its imagination. Jazz is when the soul moans as it makes love to the mind.
    Looking at Soul greats such as Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, Smokey Robinson, Curtis Mayfield of the trio "The Impressions" there is an element of Jazz in their singing style. I believe for Sam Cooke, his song "Bring it on home" that was performed live at the Harlem Club in '63 had more of Jazz than soul, and it probably ushered in a new style of unbridled rough voiced jazzy flow which I believe profoundly inspired and also popularized the style of other jazz greats such as James Brown and Otis Redding
    Sam Cooke, to me, is not only the King of Soul, he is also the father of soul. He doesn't sing, he wails with his soul.

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