{"id":102,"date":"2009-07-28T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2009\/07\/acoustics-of-li.html"},"modified":"2009-07-28T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T23:00:00","slug":"acoustics-of-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2009\/07\/acoustics-of-li.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Groove Live:  Acoustics of Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that listening is part of the essence of jazz.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&quot;The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.&quot;&#160; Duke Ellington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;Jazz is primarily a heard reality&#8230;&quot;&#160; Kirk Byron Jones<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/08\/15\/listen_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Listen_2\" border=\"0\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/findingthegroove\/images\/2007\/08\/15\/listen_2.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>Listening is what helps us make the most of every moment.&#160; There is no such thing as &quot;just a moment.&quot;&#160; The gospel is about incarnation and resurrection.&#160; Incarnate living means that we have time to listen to others.&#160; Resurrected living means that we have time to listen to God.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Jazz musicians have a few techniques that help us create the acoustics to a listening life.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Having time:&#160; In the same way that a drummer keeps time we can to.&#160; Perched in the back of the ensemble in the worst seat they keep time because it is the best seat to serve the others.&#160; What would it look like to live this as a metaphor for ministry and leadership?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The Break:&#160; This is a technique that jazz incorporates so that it is easier to listen to a particular person as they solo.&#160; It is the practice of creating space in the music, a planned moment of disruption.&#160; God gave the ancient Hebrews a way to &quot;break&quot; for the sake of listening:&#160; Sabbath &amp; Selah.&#160; Do you have any insight how you have sought to live these concepts?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Developing Your Ear:&#160; Dictation is the process of listening to a piece of music and transcribing it to paper.&#160; Tone Matching is a call and response game in which to musicians of the same instruments try to match what the other plays.&#160; How might we apply these concepts to developing our ear to hear others and God?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay in the groove,<\/p>\n<p>robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that listening is part of the essence of jazz. &quot;The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.&quot;&#160; Duke Ellington &quot;Jazz is primarily a heard reality&#8230;&quot;&#160; Kirk Byron Jones Listening is what helps us make the most of every moment.&#160; There is no such thing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Finding the Groove Live: Acoustics of Listening - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2009\/07\/acoustics-of-li.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Finding the Groove Live: Acoustics of Listening - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I believe that listening is part of the essence of jazz. &quot;The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.&quot;&#160; 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