tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post4148963707855527939..comments2023-06-20T07:19:44.412-04:00Comments on The Four Mass'keteers: Shenandoah--Keith JarrettDavid Nybakkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13172189118334371454noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post-77794689270139428412011-07-25T11:34:48.852-04:002011-07-25T11:34:48.852-04:00this is truly a musical painting. KJ certainly cap...this is truly a musical painting. KJ certainly captured the natural beauty of the landscape.DjMhttp://www.dominicjmarshall.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post-25826814751966478162011-07-05T11:00:40.308-04:002011-07-05T11:00:40.308-04:00I'm so glad that the post had so much signific...I'm so glad that the post had so much significance! I really had no idea when posting it that there was a river named Shenandoah, that it was in Virginia, and that it had wound itself so meaningfully through your and Jeff's lives.<br /><br />I recently found Jeff's Holy Cross Abbey on the satellite view of Google map and I followed the incredibly winding course of the Shenandoah--it's an amazing river. I also found that "Shenandoah" was in the running for state song of Virginia for a time.<br /><br />The man who put together the video is a Japanese guy, user name mamesibamarukomidori, who has a great channel on Youtube that I sometimes visit. He usually puts up clips of tasty, contemplative jazz with a lot of beautiful pictures, some taken by his wife during their various travels together. He really went to town on this Youtube and seems to have researched it a lot. He must have taken a trip to Shenandoah--and it made an impression on him.<br /><br />Keith Jarrett is typically an exhuberant and emotional improviser who adds all kinds of ornate textures and layers over songs--it is highly unusual for him to hold back so much and play a traditional song straight up and austere like that. <br /><br />Thanks for the kind words. I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but there are a number of strange coincidences with that Youtube clip and how it got up . . . <br /><br />I've also appreciated the chance to scout out Jeff's territory on Google map and fill in the blanks! To me, I had just thought "Jeff lives over there somewhere around DC" but now I have a much better sense of Jeff's life and the people and places dear to him.Porthoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15068816321548529889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37222179.post-31503511170170720672011-07-04T07:02:19.688-04:002011-07-04T07:02:19.688-04:00Porthos,
As one who knows some of the beautiful Sh...Porthos,<br />As one who knows some of the beautiful Shenandoah, here were some of my reflections as I watched and listened:<br />The song Shenandoah is a song by someone who has had to leave the beautiful river behind and move westward. There were images of train tracks in the video and shortly afterward an image of a home. I thought of Jeff's journey--through life, and now into a new life.<br />While the video starts with a satellite of the Shenandoah, later there is an aerial view of a bow in the river. I think I know exactly where that is--at Front Royal, VA, on the north end of town. One has to cross the river twice in a very short distance. Jeff served as Associate Pastor in the UM church there from 1982 to 1984. And he and I both loved to drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Shenandoah National Park.<br />Thank you for posting this beautiful, so appropriate song.God's Weaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06237927824434003341noreply@blogger.com