Category: Books, Music, and Film to Wake Up Your Muse and Help You Change the World

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Our Joni: Still Lighting the Path to Creative Freedom

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by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine,  Volume 22 Issue 39 2014-10-03 Book: Joni Mitchell: In her Own Words (link) Author: Malka Marom “If you just try to remember to keep your heart open, it produces a warmer tone than if you really think you’re hot shit, because the tone is going to get cold then. ” – Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words Interviews in which interviewers assert their own personalities into the conversation can be a little grating, and so it’s usually best for the interviewer to remain as anonymous and invisible as possible. One exception to … Continue reading Our Joni: Still Lighting the Path to Creative Freedom

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The Fruitful Marriage of American Jazz and the Avant-garde, Part II

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Gregor’s Bed Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 37 2014-09-19 “Wrapped in a battered sheepskin jacket and peering though Coke-bottle-thick eyeglasses, Sartre lectured up and down the East Coast and was the subject of adoring articles in New York newspapers and magazines. ’One is free to act,’ he told reporters, ’but one must act to be free.’ Beboppers like Dizzy Gillespie and pianist Thelonious Monk picked up on him, appropriating the Left Bank café-intellectual style—the black beret, the horn-rimmed glasses, the wee goatee.” – Lewis MacAdams What is the “Avant-garde,” Really? (continued from here) The symbiosis was a … Continue reading The Fruitful Marriage of American Jazz and the Avant-garde, Part II

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The Music Video From Birth to Flatlining to Resurrection

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The Mindful Bard: Money for Nothing by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 36 2014-09-12 Film: Money for Nothing: A History of the Music Video (link) Director: Jamin Bricker Writer: Saul Austerlitz Narrator:Michael Charles Roman “I wanted to write my book before the video vanished for good. As it turned out, that ended up not being a concern, because just as the music video appeared to be on the brink of extinction, the Internet took the video under its wing, and rescued it.” – Saul Austerlitz Those who view this film can’t help but lay their own personal … Continue reading The Music Video From Birth to Flatlining to Resurrection

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The Fruitful Marriage of American Jazz and the Avante Garde, Part I

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by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 35 2014-09-05 “Late one evening, outside the Open Door in Greenwich Village, [Charlie] Parker, shuffling along in a pair of old carpet slippers, bumped into Jackie McLean. . . ’I want you to kick me in the ass, Jackie McLean, for letting me get myself in this position,’ Bird commanded, bending over … A few days later Parker borrowed McLean’s sax to make an out-of-town gig, a sax McLean had himself borrowed from a friend; Parker pawned it.” – from Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde, … Continue reading The Fruitful Marriage of American Jazz and the Avante Garde, Part I

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The Musical High Roads and Low Roads Converge in “A Scottish Fantasy”

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The Mindful Bard by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 34 2014-08-29 Album: Homecoming: A Scottish Fantasy (link here.) Artists: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rory MacDonald, with violinist Nicola Benedetti “My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go.” – Robert Burns “The classical and folk story is one of endless collaboration and crossover, shared material and playing techniques. Our education categorises and separates traditions that were never that far apart. The … Continue reading The Musical High Roads and Low Roads Converge in “A Scottish Fantasy”