picture Hell as a place where everyone has to be an album about protests, and what does necessarily in being a Christian. Christianity has
a grievance, and everyone is perpetually it mean, and how do you do that. Can you do fruit, and bears fruit, but it’s not first associated
concerned about their own advancement. that and not get caught? Can you do it in front in action as much as it is associated in identity.
I read that probably five years ago and that of the Gospel and not get caught in the political quote sort of haunted me in a way. He said narrative? Jesus managed to do that, but He [WM]
(reading), “We must picture Hell as a state said things that confounded everybody. background focused upon a jazz performance
where everyone is perpetually concerned
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major at Arizona State University. I’ve recently
about his own dignity and advancement, where It’s my ten-year wedding anniversary this year, been listening to Keith Jarrett’s “Live at the Blue
everyone has a grievance, and where everyone I should have probably written a song. I could Note” recently, and it has stirred my soul for
lives in the deadly serious passions of envy, self now write a song called “The End of Me”, and days. There is such beauty and such elegance
importance, and resentment.” I felt like he was its not really a bad thing. There is a healthy way in a piano trio. Who were your heroes? Monk?
describing the era in which we live. At the core in which we die to ourselves, and then there is Bill Evans? McCoy? Herbie Hancock? There’s
of all that is the desire to be known, the desire a bad way in which we lose ourselves in things. something so “vertical” and sometimes spiritual
to be seen as a person that has dignity and But I think that’s part of the assurance of Jesus, within jazz performance. Do you have plans for
worth, and I think that is really, really important. He’s saying, “Hey, you can lose yourself in a an instrumental offering at some point?
But I think every time we start looking to other bunch of stuff, but if you lose yourself in Me, human beings for that sense of worth it’s you’ll actually find yourself”. To go back to that [Matt] (laughs) I think if I was to do a jazz
dangerous, because it’s unsustainable. quote, that’s once again thought of now, people record, I would need to go away for two years
lose themselves all the time and then they wake and practice like ten hours a day. I remember
up and go, “I don’t know who I am anymore”. hearing Keith Jarrett’s “Live at the Blue Note”
Some people even do it in ministry, people get record and being pretty blown away. Definitely
[Matt] The album Echoes was originally going lost all the time in the doing of ministry, and not Bill Evans and his work with Miles Davis was
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[WM] You are so right!
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