ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I’m an jazz trumpeter and an intrepid writer.  Jazz has taught me to improvise and I’ve applied these principles in my “other” life.

I can’t stand superficial, social veneers that mask the real person.

My intention is to communicate and touch another person with my music and with my writing.  My goal is to cut through the bull and get down to something that is real.  If you can’t face the truth, I’m not interested.  I write and play music as I feel it.  If I don’t feel it I don’t play it, or write it.

My music is real, at the time I play it, it’s how I feel.  I don’t stay the same so my music changes, but it’s still always me.  The same thing is true in my writing.  I write what I’m interested in and what I feel and observe.  I don’t write to please people or to be popular.  My goal in my music and my writing is the same:  to express myself though my art and impact others beneficially.

just cutting thru the bullshit

My good friend, Terry, gave me this cute little ax in a stump, about 10 years ago, as he thought that it summarized how I operate.  On the handle it says, “Just cutting thru the bullshit.”

He was right.  It is how I operate in everything I do.

It’s still on my desktop to this day.

daniel w. jacobs
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