Thought Provoking Entropy | 29 Sep 2009
Greenwashing is a term that is used to describe the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or services.
Greenwashing was coined by suburban NY environmentalist Jay Westerveld in 1986, in an essay regarding the hotel industry’s practice of placing green placards in each room, [...]
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 wit and [...]
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…
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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 and utopias,
I, for unknown reasons,
Surrounded by the [...]
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 dead man’s face either
our fear
is a [...]
Art & 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, recently [...]