Finding Serenity

Part 1: Then: -- 1: Growing up as a musician in Detroit -- 2: Cass Tech High -- 3: Boston (1979-1988) -- 4: Making music

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Finding Serenity

Table of contents :
Part 1: Then: --
1: Growing up as a musician in Detroit --
2: Cass Tech High --
3: Boston (1979-1988) --
4: Making music, finding meaning (1989-2003) --
Part 2: Now: --
5: Hope and new directions (2004) --
6: Slowly contemplating Boston (2005) --
Move east: space, serenity, peace of mind and creativity, and an essay about arriving home --
7: Life lived east (2006) --
8: New essays (2006-2008) --
Days with Ornette Coleman --
Connecting jazz to contemporary culture: how are we making jazz culturally relevant? --
iPodology: what are we being asked to plug into? --
Hop ain't hip without the music (or what happened with the music in popular culture markets?) --
Wrestling with a black aesthetic in contemporary living --
Aesthetics of sales in the contemporary marketplace post-2007 --
Closing argument on hip-hop --
Without fear of shame: the eighty-year-old debate --
American idle? --
Using your creative voices: an essay on race and artistic action --
Culture of conflict and confrontation --
Letter to my students --
Out of the woods with Bobby McFerrin --
There's something new there, but you have to find it --
9: Representing culture (2008) --
Homage to mentors --
Modern media music culture madness --
Audacity in hope --
Wow, mom, he looks like me (an Obama poem) --
10: Reckonings and recognitions (2009) --
Alvin Ailey Dance Company and Sweet Honey in the rock --
Letter to Dr Ysaye Barnwell --
Michael dies --
Beer summit --
Great ones passing: Horace Boyer, George Russell, Hale Smith --
11: Closing comments on culture: entries and essays (2010) --
Roots and reason series, concerts produced by Bill Banfield, interviewed by Leslie Mahoney, Berklee Faculty News --
Warmest December --
Don't use the J word: jazz connections to culture and meaning --
Bicycling in Bangkok: considering condition, context, challenge, conflict, change, charge, cash, comfort, and complacency --
Payoff: investing yourself in a multi-toned, voiced, angled, and cultured world (May 29, 2009) --
Baking of American music culture --
12: Tag and Coda --
Part 3: When Again: --
13: Artist photo profiles.

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