Practicing Jazz Standards

Trying to play everyday at least a couple minutes, catching the rhythm of my favorite jazz and soul standards from the 30s to the 70s. I love so many of those melodies, those chord progressions. I'm learning so much about chord progressions used in different musical cadences. The way a descending progression hits my romantic bone perfectly. I play with my right hand and a left root note quite a bit more although I spent most of the winter learning all the chords with my left hand to play the melody with my right. I've asked Josh so many times, what I've learned is that it's always a combination of the both hands. It's how the pitches and tones blend. You THINK like a band, the whole structure. It's beautiful when it works. How the bassline anchors whether it's guitar bass or the low keys on the piano. The way organ or marimba can fill in the treble feelings, the texture of a guitar lick that comes in perfectly. Based in piano for music theory but it's only a map for the actual full texture of the song's sound. Soft or loud, smooth or harsh all brings a different feeling. Mainly I love the romance of simple torch songs, the way these musical songwriters could craft a perfect song with great lyrics that rhyme. Many of the ideas are outdated "Can't help loving that man" but it is so hard to argue with power of perfectly coordinated chord structure for a rhyming phrase. That's the definition of catchy. Of earworminess. It could be the dumbest statement and stick with you forever.