“Aesthetics is to me as an artist must be what ornithology is like to a bird.”– Barnett Newman, an artist Someone broached the subject of aesthetics, specifically the Japanese idea of Ma, meaning negative space, […]
Category: genres
Genre rant
A small complaint on genre in music, that has been hanging around my drafts folder a long time. Whenever I’m slow to write any new stuff, and am desperate for content, I dump one of […]
Jazz language?
Great blog post by Bill Plake: “The Problem With Studying ‘The Jazz Language’”: The other morning I was giving a first lesson to a jazz guitarist ( a university student) and was struck by something […]