Joseph Jarman
Joseph Jarman
Joseph Jarman, is a jazz musician, composer and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He is perhaps best known as one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the Art Ensemble of Chicago...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth14 September 1937
CountryUnited States of America
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But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.
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We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.
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In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.
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It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble. But it seemed more important to me to share the vitality of Aikido and the vitality of Zen training with people, even though it would be a smaller number of people, it seemed to give them something that could last and improve their lives.
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Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.
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Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
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You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!
human society
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
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So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.
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When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything.
dharma music
So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.
life vital
I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.
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People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.
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Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.