May 22, 2016

Jazz As A Spiritual Practice

Jazz is often misconstrued as "every person for him/herself," riffing like mad with the hope it all coheres in the end. Rather like "UU's can believe anything, making it up as they go along and then talking about it on Sunday." But underneath jazz's reverence for free-form improvisation lies a deep structure and tradition of individual creativity lending itself to group cooperation. Hmmm...Join us, including a swingin' group of UUsual Suspects players and singers and our Choir, for this musically rich and thought-provoking journey through a home-grown American art form and its interweave with liberal religion.