{"id":501,"date":"2006-12-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2006\/12\/the-original-ch-2.html"},"modified":"2006-12-12T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T05:00:00","slug":"the-original-ch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/12\/the-original-ch-2.html","title":{"rendered":"The Original Christmas Carols (p4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">The Benedictus<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Mary resembles Billy Holiday then Zechariah is more like Nat King Cole.&nbsp; The Benedictus (Lk. 1.67-79) at it core is a love song in which old Z sings about how &quot;Unforgettable&quot; his God is.&nbsp; The first word says it all, &quot;Praise.&quot;&nbsp; (i.e. to bless, to adore)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/natking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"249\" alt=\"Natking\" src=\"https:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/findingthegroove\/images\/natking.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Zechariah shows us that jazz is not all improvisation but composition too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Because he had been sentenced by the angel Gabriel to over nine months of silence he had plenty of time to work on his song of adoration.&nbsp; As you read it you will notice that it is a list of reasons why he loves God.&nbsp; You might also see a minimum of 16 references to the Old Testament.&nbsp; Finally, it is structured like a chiasmus (a form of poetry that makes use of inverted parallelism).<\/p>\n<p>While Mary was improvising, Zechariah had the time to compose.&nbsp; Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus where great composers but no less magnificent jazz musicians.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>A jazz-shaped faith has room for both.&nbsp; A jazz-shaped faith needs both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Benedictus If Mary resembles Billy Holiday then Zechariah is more like Nat King Cole.&nbsp; The Benedictus (Lk. 1.67-79) at it core is a love song in which old Z sings about how &quot;Unforgettable&quot; his God is.&nbsp; The first word says it all, &quot;Praise.&quot;&nbsp; (i.e. to bless, to adore) Zechariah shows us that jazz is&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-501","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>The Original Christmas Carols (p4) - 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\/2006\/12\/the-original-ch-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Original Christmas Carols (p4) - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Benedictus If Mary resembles Billy Holiday then Zechariah is more like Nat King Cole.&nbsp; 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