Tag: Jazz Vespers
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for real
At our Jazz Vespers this weekend, the theme will be (in advance of February 14th) Love. Yes, in a playful way at first, and then reaching toward more substance, too. We will read a few poems by Micheal O’Siadhail’s Love Life during the vespers. One that we won’t read, but which is wonderfully simple, is…
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Dizzy Gillespie – con alma
We’re doing another Jazz Vespers at KCKF in a couple of weeks – with guest pianist Chad Linsley. One of the pieces in the lineup for that Vespers is con alma, by the incomparable Dizzy Gillespie. Here’s a wonderful taste…
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Soundboards and Spinach
I offered the following reflection at our Jazz Vespers this past weekend. I have borrowed heavily for this from Jeremy Begbie’s book Resounding Truth. ____________________________ In his wonderful book Resounding Truth, Christian theologian and musician Jeremy Begbie reminds us that within the Christian tradition the world is not…
encrusted words 