'Round' Midnight

It was around midnight when I finally settled into bed and grew still with contemplation like a heavy mask on my face there in the darkness and the starlight glow. My thoughts crawled into the heavens mournful, soulful, searching into the meaning of the memories drenching my mind like thick, dark molasses. But in penetrating through the gloom of things ending before you want them to, like the wind that floats a kite majestically on a March afternoon or the life of a butterfly so bright and lythe...and short, my mournful trumpet thought-stream held a long last note and mingled its voice in dissonant harmony with the incoming flood of a saxaphone yalp and graciously gave the stage to a musical reinterpretation of the dance we had performed. As you watch the Miles Davis quintet perform 'Round Midnight' I want you to get into a contemplative mood with Miles as he lays down the first 2 minutes of the song and sets the table for your mind to go with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock and the boys as they provide the musical backdrop for the way I think about our team when we play the most beautiful game on earth. Structure and improvisation. Change of tempo, brave exploits, technical brilliance. When I watch you play, I hear jazz in my mind. Jazz doesn't have an end goal - it's all about the way it's played and the new places found in the notes that are there to be discovered. Everytime I watch you guys play I discover something new about the game I've spent much of my life enjoying. I am honored to have had the pleasure this year of watching you become artists and musicians in search of something new everytime you take the pitch. Live your lives the same way and you will have nothing to worry about. Enjoy this piece of music as you remember last nights game and the other great games of your season.

The Miles Davis Quintet
'Round' Midnight



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