As the title to Wynton Marsalis‘s fifth Blue Note release indicates, He and She is about that eternally compelling and most elemental of subjects: the relationship between a man and a woman. The Artistic Director of Jazz Lincoln Center,Jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, bandleader, advocate for the arts, and educator, however, hasn’t merely crafted a love [...]
Books &Music Entropy | 21 Sep 2009
Wish to share a profound & beautiful excerpt form a Book – - Moving to Higher Ground – How Jazz Can Change Your Life – by Pulitzer Prize—winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis, which draws upon lessons he’s learned from a lifetime in jazz–lessons that can help us all move to a higher ground, with [...]
Czeslaw Milosz was a poet & writer of multiple achievements, also a prophet of liberation for whom the individual exercise of disabused memory came to constitute a spiritual vocation… – When everything was fine And the notion of sin had vanished And the earth was ready In universal peace To consume and rejoice Without creeds [...]
I am not pessimist but I am not an optimist either. Rather, I am a Greek. I believe that the Golden Age was long ago.- Zbigniew Herbert Our fear does not wear a night shirt does not have owl’s eyes does not lift a casket lid does not extinguish a candle does not have a [...]
Art & Design &Music Entropy | 06 Sep 2009
In the words of musicologist Julian Johnson.. We use Music so often to stave off boredom, to fill temporal spaces, that would otherwise seem empty, suggests that Silence makes us anxious, that our culture suffers from collective Horror vacui- Please read & ponder on this fascinating & deeply insightful feature by composer- author Jan Swafford, [...]
Economic Behaviour &Thought Provoking Entropy | 01 Sep 2009
This is an illuminating & profound feature by a Caltech physicist & Author Leonard Mlodinow. As such his insights will intrigue, awe, and inspire. The Meritocracy Paradox Over the years, visions of utopia have varied from the lofty in Plato’s Republic to the hedonistic in Woody Allen’s Sleeper, which portrays a world in which hot [...]