This Detroiter never wants to stop playing or learning about jazz

In the professional sports world, teams representing Detroit and Chicago have engaged in fierce rivalries that have often produced hard-fought games — and sometimes even hard feelings among the players and fans that have lasted decades.

But the music world is a different universe altogether.

And one recent Facebook post intended to pay respect to a legendary musician, Detroit-born Gerard Gibbs, gently but profoundly, demonstrated that in the world of jazz — one of America’s oldest original art forms — Detroit and Chicago artists can teach and inspire each other from near and far.