Some solid jazz and spoken word descended on Minneapolis last night at the Illusion Theater. Baikida Carroll spoke mighty volumes with his horn in a “Prayer for Miles Davis” and the rest of his quintet wrestled urgently with their instruments to invoke a joyful noise. With Carroll’s Quintet getting free and loose, they invited spoken word artist Truth Maze to the stage with a stecato swing anthem. Truth answered the call with a hailstorm of side stepped responses that hyphenated the cadence of each sonic piece with literary allusions to Amiri Baraka and Sun Ra. One poem questioned the origins of the West Nile Virus and why nature gets blamed for nature, while the final piece “the whole world sounds like a jazz song…” echoed around my noggin as I climbed out of the theater and fell into the Saturday night swap of humans cajoling, cars bumping, and I new “This” was true.