Miles Behind...

Today is just one of those days. Just one of those days where......your mind is in a million places at once. These days, seem to approach me on Sundays only. Jazz and Bossa Nova are the only things that calm my mind instantaneously. Hearing those minor 7's layered together with soul, passion, and groove. Nothing like it.

I've always wandered why America shuns this music. Our music. America's music. Is it because Jazz was created by the black man? We revere men such as Bach, Handel, Hayden, Mozart, etc. Classical music was the first sophisticated genre of music ever. Renaissance music was leading up to this grandeur. But, let's be logical. Classical music came into existence in the 18th century and then transposed itself through time to Romantic. We seem to forget that Jazz is the most recent form of complex music. It is by far the most complex genre of music known to man. Nothing even comes close to it. But anyways, I'm not going to bore you with music history of the past 300 years.

But all of which I have listed was created in Europe. Jazz is America's classical music. Europeans showed the Jazz artists with much respect and they were paid well there. In America, we treated these Bachs and Mozarts like trash that you find only in Washington D.C. Jazz unfortunately isn't as "cool" or as "bop" as it used to be. But it needs to be given the certain respect it deserves. We have already lost the greats, Miles, Coltrane, Monk, Montgomery, Elvin, and so on. Why go any further? We had some of the greatest musicians in the world. America shunned them. Jazz should be in every high school. Not just classical music. This isn't Europe. I thought America prided itself on being American? Well, I guess we were being America, Racist America. Sad. We can not let this happen again.

I'm just glad that I'm approaching my college years, where I can bask my head into knowledge that I could only dream of or not dream of.