Quaker Jazz

This week’s Quak­er­S­peak inter­views musi­cian Colton Weath­er­ston. I love the way he relates the com­mu­ni­ca­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion of jazz musi­cians to Quak­er worship:

Espe­cial­ly artists and musi­cians, we often don’t have the same point of view or even the same back­ground. Each of us will bring a lot of bag­gage into the meet­ing of the musi­cians and we have to build trust with each oth­er and peo­ple need to feel free to express their ideas as a soloist with­out feel­ing told by the leader how exact­ly to play — we have to work it out as an ensem­ble. And I think that’s very true with meet­ings also.

Those with long mem­o­ries might remem­ber that I inter­viewed Chad Stephen­son after he made a com­par­i­son between new jazz tra­di­tion­al­ists and Con­ver­gent Friends at the 2009 Ben Lomond con­fer­ence (I believe he wrote an expand­ed ver­sion for the Spir­it Ris­ing Quak­er anthol­o­gy but I can’t find a link).

2 thoughts on “Quaker Jazz

  1. This is Chad here – it was good to see some­one else use this anal­o­gy! Here is the link to my arti­cle, as I have gone ahead and pub­lished it on my blog site as of today (https://​bit​.ly/​2​q​w​o​kgl), since it seems rel­e­vant. You can also find a link to a review of Spir­it Ris­ing here, where it is men­tioned, by Chuck Fager (https://​bit​.ly/​2​H​C​A​yw4). Thanks for remem­ber this – you have a great memory!

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