Jazz Hands

I like jazz. To me the instrumentals and vocals sound like everybody working together (very smooth) but letting go of control.

This morning I attended church in a big old downtown cathedral. The entire service was a tribute to Duke Ellington. Not many people know that Duke Ellington wrote spiritual pieces. Just before his death he performed his spiritual work in Westminster Abby. Many years prior to that he performed sacred concerts right where I was this morning.

We could all contemplate the current controversy over the two new best selling books advocating atheism by listening to the Ellington piece, "Ain't Nobody Nothin' Without God."

It was a beautiful morning. It was smooth.

As that wild and crazy Martin Luther once said, "Why should the devil get all the good tunes?"