Charting the Spiritual Experience in Jazz

This article examines the spiritual dimension of jazz performance by looking at first-person accounts improvising musicians and locating their experiential descriptions within a framework. The context is here defined as realm invisible processes that support underpin visible auditory dimensions improvised music. By collating evidence through accounts, series themes emerge (wonderment, force, inspiration, letting go, happening, connection, being yourself, meaning staying in present), which, when seen parts holistic process, can provide important components are often missed education performance.