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- Return to LIVE -
Music's Healing Vibration

BY JIM HOROWITZ

Beyond aligning our water molecules, music unites us. It’s a mystery beyond consciousness. Jim Horowitz, president and CEO of Jazz Aspen Snowmass, has a lineup planned for a live Labor Day festival with Stevie Nicks, Eric Church and Maren Morris. He is optimistic and staying flexible. Here are his bullet points for what is real in the music industry now.

Food for thought from this leading voice in live music, Jim Horowitz, who knows “Music is …sustenance.”:

  • There is a living quality, literally, to live music. 
  • As we speak, the industry in America is planning on running shows between midsummer and mid-fall that were re-booked to this spring. Shows like Bonaroo have been rescheduled to Labor Day. The music industry believes outdoor concerts will be back at full capacity by August 1. People need concerts. Music is a big part of people’s lives and is an impetus for vaccination.  
  • I am most excited about not one return to the stage by one particular artist, but by everything.
“I have been walking through the desert without water and my mouth is parched, my soul is dry. We may not be at full capacity but what I know is the energy will be full.”

The energy and excitement and appreciation overwhelms the fact we won’t be packed like sardines. Music will be mana, even at lower capacity.

  • We have all been roughed up and had some humble pie and we will be more grateful.
  • Everyone and everything does not go forever and not every venue or event or artist will make it.
  • Music uplifts people. I know this in my body and my soul. Music is sustenance. The connection between people when music is the medium is magic. Playing in D.C. as a professional jazz pianist in the Reagan years, the party separations evaporated. Music is one of the only grounds where people can find commonality.

On his playlist: “I am a guy that’s surrounded by piles of CDs—it’s the story of my life.”: “Frank Sinatra at The Sands with Count Basie and The Orchestra arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones,” 1967; “Herbie Hancock, ‘Headhunters’ (with Watermelon Man); “Boz Scaggs singing the standards, ‘But Beautiful;’ “Joanie Mitchell, ‘Shadows and Light;” “The Django Festival AllStars.” “They are a ridiculous, hot, French, jazz band.”

Sting performs live at Jazz Aspen Snowmass. Photo credit - Steve Mundinger.
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