Sometimes you find the best things in life by pure accident. Something or someone you didn't even know you needed or were looking for. You are minding your own business, running up the stairs of life, and BOOM, it smacks you right in the chest. You find it (or them) and you don’t know how... Continue Reading →
Touching Can Be Magic
One of my favorite jazz guitarists of all time is Stanley Jordan. Like most people, I first heard his playing on the 1985 Blue Note album, Magic Touch. This album was at the top of the Billboard Jazz charts for something like an entire year, easily a record! I still listen to that album and can... Continue Reading →
The Strength of Simplicity
Sometimes it’s the simplest pleasures in life that make you smile. Sometimes it’s the strength of simplicity that is the most moving emotional experience. Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer who seems to have turned away from some of the complexity of the twentieth century musical heritage, and as early as the 1970’s, was working... Continue Reading →