Jazz has achieved preeminence throughout the world as an indigenous American music and art form, bringing to this country and the world a uniquely American musical synthesis and culture through the African-American experience and has evolved into a multifaceted art form that continues to birth and nurtures new stylistic idioms and cultural fusions
This book is a blessed bounty of reflections, scriptures, prayers, music playlists, and study questions (curiosity rhythms) created to be equally effective for personal and group exploration. Subjects include the following:
-Ella Fitzgerald: Ambushed by Grace
-Louis Armstrong: Joy on Joy in Joy
-Jimmy Scott: Faith in Time
-Mary Lou Williams: The Glory of an Open Heart
-Billie Holiday: Honesty, Heartache, and Wholeness
-John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
-Sarah Vaughan: The Majesty of a Light Touch
-Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Being Born Again and Again
-Kirk Whalum: Grace on Grace
-Cyrus Chestnut: Holy Outlandish Freedom
-Lizz Wright and Gregory Porter: Praise is a Game Changer!
-Terri Lyne Carrington: Jazz is a SpiritJazz has achieved preeminence throughout the world as an indigenous American music and art form, bringing to this country and the world a uniquely American musical synthesis and culture through the African-American experience and has evolved into a multifaceted art form that continues to birth and nurtures new stylistic idioms and cultural fusions
-Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Being Born Again