Music as Muse

Temporary Employement post some great awe-inpsiring videos of guitar playing.  Last night, I had the privilege of seeing the Spanish Harlem Orchestra live.  Both are reminders of the joy of music, especially when share through humans that have been blessed to demonstrate limitlessness of human creativity and bliss.  I have been going to hear live salsa music at least once a week and am so lucky to live in LA, a city filled with many talented and gracious musicians (just check out some of my favorite bands on my friends list here on mpspace).  However, last night, these guys really blew me away (no offense to the locals!).  The solos just transported the dancers to another plane -- there was no thinking, no countiing, but just riding the wave of the music. 

A bit of a side story, that may be humorous only to me (and to a few others who are privy to my general state of spaciness, which I like to think I disguise fairly well in most of my life).  Moreover, it is a great example of the closeness and friendliness of the salsa world.  Before the band played, a cha cha cha came on, one of my favorite dances though many of my favorite dancers don't really like it.  So, there was a guy in his spiffy white cotton salsero shirt gooving to the cha cha cha.  I asked him to dance; he was a fun, gracious dancer.  I felt a bit humbled (and would have probably have not asked him if I had known) that he was the band's kick-ass trombonist, who played a solo I have no words to express and is a solo artist that has played at our local Granada: Jimmy Bosch!  I know in Hollywood, land of the superstars, this may seem trite, but in my little world (in which I would probably not have recognized I was dancing with Brad Pitt, if he had been there), it was exciting to have danced with someone who is so amazingly talented, yet really, just like us.  Somehow it makes me think about my choices (writing this rather than honing my 'real' writing for instance), and how, within each of us there is that capability for creativity beyond what we imagine ourselves capable.