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"Jazz is killing some people; some are going insane; others are losing their religion."
Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis:
What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? Coltrane on a C-64? Mingus on Amiga? For years, I've wondered what "chiptune jazz" would sound like, but there are only a tiny handful of jazz covers ever made.
To satisfy my curiosity — and commemorate the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue" — I've asked five brilliant chiptune musicians to collaborate and reinvent the entire album in the 8-bit sound.
From Learn to Think Better: Tips from a Savant, an interview with Daniel Tammet:
Mind: You advocate a theory of creativity defined by a cognitive property you call “hyperconnectivity.” Could you explain?
Tammet: I am unusually creative—from visualizing numerical landscapes composed of random strings of digits to the invention of my own words and concepts in numerous languages. Where does this creativity come from?
My brain has developed a little differently from most other people’s. Aside from my high-functioning autism, I also suffered from epileptic seizures as a young child. In my book, I propose a link between my brain’s functioning and my creative abilities based on the property of hyperconnectivity.
In most people, the brain’s major functions are performed separately and not allowed to interfere with one another. Scientists have found that in some brain disorders, however, including autism and epilepsy, cross-communication can occur between normally distinct brain regions. My theory is that rare forms of creative imagination are the result of an extraordinary convergence of normally disconnected thoughts, memories, feelings and ideas. Indeed, such hyperconnectivity within the brain may well lie at the heart of all forms of exceptional creativity.
In the visual/cultural mash up category: Wu Tang Clan album covers done up Blue Note records style: pt 1, pt 2
Yusef Lateef: The Gentle Giant: Octogenarian world-music legend is preparing for a night of improvisational music at the Walker—just don't call it jazz.
"Jazz is defined as doggerel, skullduggery, poppycock, coquetry, sexual intercourse," he said recently from his home in Massachusetts. "It has nothing to do with what I do."
Keepers of the Chaos: North Philly free jazz outlaws Jamaaladeen Tacuma and G. Calvin Weston are still breaking the rules.
Wayne Shorter interviewed: an excerpt from a longer interview in Jazz Improv
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