“The Rhythm of Study” (rhythmofstudy.com) celebrates the passion, creativity, and improvisation of jazz music in the arts, academia, and advocacy. Recognizing the potential for inspired work, constructive dialogue, mindful living, and positive social change in the extraordinary and the everyday—the marvelous and the mundane—TRoS promotes jazz as musical and cultural force applied in many ways with
in and among diverse communities and explores how the similarities and productive differences among all of these are enriched by the unique particularities of each. TRoS invites audiences to experience jazz from a myriad of perspectives, and to listen, read, play, act, live, and collaborate across each and every one. The blog features writing, reviews, interviews, and collaborative projects associated with my lifelong passion for jazz—in performance, education, and research. As someone who has spent his whole career around the music—at the pianist's bench, in the teacher's classroom, the club manager’s office, and the academic’s desk—I am working to dissolve the boundaries separating all of these…to make space for collaborative performances that acknowledge the singularities and diversities of the jazz world. Scheduled to launch January 2013...
