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 [...]
This is an inspirational excerpt from a article on Jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan in New York Times . According to Blue Notes she one of the Jazz World’s best kept secrets. Also explore this enlightening feature on NPR . When the jazz singer Sheila Jordan is in Manhattan, she has ready access to the musicians, [...]
Haruki Murakami at his jazz bar, Peter Cat, in Sendagaya, Tokyo, 1978. I never had any intention of becoming a novelist — at least not until I turned 29. This is absolutely true. I read a lot from the time I was a little kid, and I got so deeply into the worlds of the [...]
Music &Poetry Entropy | 05 May 2006
Jazz poetry is a literary genre defined as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music—that is, poetry in which the poet responds to and writes about jazz. Jazz poetry, like the music itself, encompasses a variety of forms, rhythms, and sounds. Beginning with the birth of blues and jazz at the beginning of the twentieth century, [...]