Jazz Articles about Allen Won

Allen Won: The Jewel in the Lotus

by Stephen Latessa
June 28, 2005

A slight headache came on as I started to read the liner notes to The Jewel In The Lotus by Allen Won. In the notes, Won explains that the music is “based on the Tibetan chakra system in which there are set points of 'whirling' energy always in motion within the body. He goes on to point out that the scale used in the composition of the songs contains seven tones that each represent a specific chakra. Not being a ...