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In the Dark: An Unexpectedly Spiritual Evening of Jazz with Jack DeJohnette

In the Dark: An Unexpectedly Spiritual Evening of Jazz with Jack DeJohnette, by Bill Miles. Photograph of dimly lit barn with Jack DeJohnette thanking the audience after a performance.
Barely discernible in a barn illuminated solely by a few iPhones, jazz musician Jack DeJohnette thanks the audience following his brilliant solo piano performance (August 13, 2016). Photograph by Bill Miles

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

When a sudden, thunderous storm knocks out power, a concert is transformed into a spiritual experience

The most extraordinary experiences are not necessarily orchestrated as such. Sometimes the Universe intervenes to transform a typical event into a transcendent one and we are left looking back, thinking Wow — I’m not quite sure what happened there, but it was amazing!

Recently, I had such an experience.

, pictured above, for those who may not know of him, is a legend in the world of jazz. He’s one of the.

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