Miles Davis recorded his timeless album Kind of Blue (1959) entirely as an improvisation, and allowed the music a flow all of its own.
For Davis, the order of the day in the recording studio was to let spontaneity play and the music speak for itself. As creativity’s gift, everything needed was innate to the musicianship.
Across the board, human creativity
must be free to assert its own rhythms, structures and forms. Our role is to not get in the way, for that only spoils the show.
Creativity is a road that bodes incredibly well. It even holds out the promise of the human herself, who follows those lodestars of joy, imagination and love, and comes into her own as a whole original soul. And why wouldn’t that, likewise, entail a little bit of letting go - and of trusting to some creative unfolding?
Again, we’re talking here of the birth of innate control, the creativity of the self, and the outgrowing of the oyster shell by the pearl.