Unified Theory

Unified Theory: Unified Theory

by Rob Evanoff
September 1, 2000

I can feel the impending wrath of these next comments, but at the end of last year, I ceremoniously picked my albums of the decade and found it hard not to putBlind Melon’sdebut album among them. That opus had a simplicity to it, ingrained within melodic hippie rock, and it kept re-appearing in my life and I found myself listening to that album non-stop in 1999, years after the CD stores had been filled with used copies of it. And ...

Jazz and Writing: A Unified Theory?

Source: Lubricity
February 9, 2010

In my Sunday afternoon jazz internet perusal, I found a couple of interesting links that are worth sharing.  Theyre both related to my own personal search for self-expression both through music and writing.

First was this insightful manifesto from Chris Kelsey (from whom I borrowed the awesome image to your right.)  Chris offers a definition of true artistry:

The greatest players dont play out as a socio-political statement; they dont play in as a way of making debating points. ...
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