Kinship

As I write this I’m listening to Swingin’ for Schuur, an album I downloaded from the iTunes store last evening, featuring Diane Schuur backed by Maynard Ferguson and his Big Bop Nouveau band (1991). There is one obvious misfire on the album — regrettably the first track, “Just One Of Those Things” — but otherwise there is so much joyful singing and playing in this collection! And I feel a kinship with these musicians. In my mind’s eye I can see them in the studio, listening to the charts they’d just put down and knowing that in so many ways, and in so many moments, they had “nailed it.” On stage at the piano, where I did most of my work, I too have felt that.

It is so personally uplifting to be able to take pleasure in a fellow human being’s achievement. Technology rocks!