I find jazz to be a metaphor that encompasses a broad section of life's best experiences. Immanuel Kant said that ethics begins in aesthetics. I could not agree more. It is not that you can judge someone's character by the type of music they like, but that beauty and character
Read MoreThe overlapping concepts and practices of jazz and Zen have a common starting point. To put it simply, or reduce it to an initiating idea: All action springs from inaction and all sound springs from silence.
Read MoreJapan’s love for jazz has no stronger evidence than the constant sound of jazz being played all over the country. In elevators, convenience stores, restaurants, lobbies and public spaces of all kinds, jazz is the soundtrack for Japan’s daily life.
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