Jazz is not of this world. Well yes it was originally as it was being developed in its immature infancy and while under its initial oppression of the state and in the whorehouse. But now as an art form, the test in these last days is whether Jezebel likes it or not. If she does not like it , it is not of the world. He/She can not work her magic on the Johns or Johnettes who are thinking with the right brain and listening to jazz. If Jezebel does not like it, there is a sort of lack of a second (as in Robert's Rules of Order). There I go getting political again talking about religious people. This is why there is no desire for Blue Grass either (jazz also) with all that good pickin' goin' on.
Neither the watchdog nor the watchman as musician in the pew can afford to play the animal that sticks its head in the sand to prevent the enemy from advancing. The enemy is in us. Our lusts, and desires and pride. The world and self is anti family and anti-creation period. Not only ant-jazz which is creative.
There should be a clarion call to arms against self with prayer. There should be prayer for anyone who is suspected of showing a noose having read the Turner Dairies. Yet we need to read the Turner Diaries, and know that these are the last days. This is just one of the many misinterpretations of a person who does not love himself. Ther reason why I know is that I have had a first cousin to these insecurities. We need to pray for self and the sick-Ohs, and thank God that accept by grace go I.
Another problem is that it (jazz) does not have a place to lay its head, rest, recuperate, rehearse, reiterate, run or relax outside of clubs that sell liquor. The consequence of this fact is grave and foreboding if you do not have faith. It is not like we can go to Jones Hall once a week and play it or listen to it. It is only because of racism and self-hatred that we are not allowed a legitimate home... in America! Yet the daily reprieve of a few places like Walker's Fine Foods, has does and will allow for the proliferation of the idiom.
Thank God for those Walker brothers and for any parent that teaches their progeny the true history with LPs , pictures, movies or whatever to prevent self-hatred. If not a part of us as Americans dies.