Jazz as Incarnation

Jazz is embodied music. Ideas take flesh! This is a grand spiritual theme, of course, and lies at the heart of Christmas story. But what does incarnation sound like? That’s what this episode is all about. And we have the music to prove it.

 Here’s the free verse poem that Bill composed: 

When Word

takes flesh

it is a fragile

Incarnation.

Power becomes subject to weakness,

Freedom is chained by time,

Fools compromise Wisdom,

Death crouches behind the Door.

Still we discern a Way 

Through the dark,

giving, 

embracing, 

loving

risking all.

And joy finds us.

Featured music:

Away in a Manger, from Jazz Noel, Bill Carter and the Presbybop Christmas Eve Band

What Child is This, from Fragile Incarnation, Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet 

Sussex Carol, from Fragile Incarnation, Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet 

 Theme music: "All Thumbs" from Faith in a New Key, Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet   Music used by permission from Presbybop Music (BMI)
Announcer: Chris Norton
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