tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15405788.post114355612129441698..comments2024-01-04T07:33:10.137-05:00Comments on Seldom Wrong, Never in Doubt: Distinctively American Syncretism Still Alive and WellJon A. Alfred E. Michael J. Wile E. SWNIDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595651777890086293noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15405788.post-1143678582357069162006-03-29T19:29:00.000-05:002006-03-29T19:29:00.000-05:00the african orthodox church's standard for canoniz...the african orthodox church's standard for canonization must be pretty lax, but who am i to quibble?<BR/><BR/>there is very little documentation on the AOC. st. john coltrane church seems to be the only active parish in the states.<BR/><BR/>i wonder if i could get redd foxx canonized and start a church...Rustypantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09711310021095284617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15405788.post-1143588162509453592006-03-28T18:22:00.000-05:002006-03-28T18:22:00.000-05:00Trane's music, his comments on what he was doing i...Trane's music, his comments on what he was doing in his music, lead me to realize the greater metaphor that Jazz provides for our lives. We are given a progression of chords and told to play. Every note we play and how we enunciate it becomes itself a creation—the creation is the creation of self. Will we play in harmony with the progression? How well do we know the progression? Will we play in a way that highlights the other players or seeks to maintain the spotlight on ourselves? If we know the song will we venture out and demonstrate our full relationship to it by expressing our own voice creatively or will we cling to the familiar notes of the melody as to a lifeline? These things make me say "hmm." But as soon as I start to hmm it turns into humming, and what do I humm but the familiar words that the Trane spoke to reverently to the Duke—"In a Sentimental Mood."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com