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The Jazz Theologian

I found this link over at Erud-Awakening.  It’s a live web cam on a watering hole somewhere in Africa. Click here to check it out:  Eye On Africa I’m making this a permament link in my left hand column because it has replaced my TV addiction.  Now this is reality television…I’ve seen lions & tigers…

John Alan Turner over at Faith 2.0 recently emailed me the link to this article about how corporations can learn to swing.  USA Today interviewed Wynton Marsalis, who was named one of America’s Best Leaders in 2006 by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and U.S. News & World Report. Heres the link to the USA…

“If you know in advance every note you’re going to play and just the way you’re going to play it, there’s no need to have feelings.  Like that, if you’ve got a feeling, you just can’t use it; you can’t even stay interested.  Music like that, you could almost make a machine play it for…

A new blog that is sure to be a must read, an album that is a sermon, and a book about American Idols.

Mahalia Jackson had just sung, "I’ve Been ‘Buked and I Been Scorned," only to have the crowd demand an encore so she then sang the spiritual, "How I God Over." 

When Martin Luther King Jr. stood up before the crowd that late August day he wasn’t planning on talking about the dream.  He had many wonderful things to say.  Lines about withering injustice, cashing a blank check and letting freedom ring were all in his manuscript that sat in front of him on the podium.…

"Put it this way.  Jazz is a good barometer of freedom…In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence thorugh which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this…

Numbers were down in our services because of the unusually low temperatures that we are experiencing in the Mile High City.  An usher informed me that there was a man present who had just lost his wife in the past few days.  I sought him out, making my way down the somewhat crowded pew, and…

This weeks picks are in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr…

Lady Ella, the First Lady of Song, gets a stamp! (click here to read the story on the official Ella Fitzgerald site)
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