Posts Tagged With: jazz
Schopenhauer And Coltrane – The Metaphysics Of Atheism Illumines “A Love Supreme” (Jon Avery)
Arthur Schopenhauer, a nineteenth century German philosopher, praised music as the highest art form because it gives us immediate access to the inner life of human existence and the reality behind appearances. To grasp the “reality behind appearances” is very similar to the goal of much of Hindu and Buddhist…
Avant-Garde Jazz and the Posthuman (Roger Green)
Recently in Boulder, Colorado I had a chance to play guitar for the Ron Miles quintet. The trumpeter / cornetist Ron Miles, is a long-time mentor and friend, and we have at times appeared together live and on each other’s recording projects. Both Ron and I come from a Denver-based…