The Marlowsphere Blog (#131)
Seventy-seven years ago Ernst Eduard vom Rath (3 June 1909 – 9 November 1938), a German diplomat, was assassinated in Paris in early November 1938 by a Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan. This became the pretext for “Kristallnacht,” the “Night of Broken Glass” on November 9-10, 1938 by the Nazis.... keep reading »
The Marlowsphere Blog (#130)
[Over time] Man’s communications technologies . . . have moved from the verbal, to the alphabetic, to the typographic, to the filmic, and to the electronic . . . , [I]t would be absurd to presume that “electronic” is the end of the. . .technology chain. .... keep reading »
Marlowsphere Blog (#129)
Western perceptions to the contrary, jazz in mainland China has survived through four generations. Starting in the 1920s when jazz first came to China, specifically Shanghai, till now there have been several generations of indigenous jazz musicians.
The first generation responded to the demand for jazz at the time—dance hall music.... keep reading »
Innovation and integration may be the organizational trend of the day, but just as Rome wasn’t built in a day, neither is innovation, and integrating innovation into organizations is even more of a challenge.
Innovation and integration are challenging activities. If they were easy to accomplish, there would be a lot more of it, it would be commonplace, and we would be living in a completely different world.... keep reading »
The Marlowsphere Blog (#127)
There’s an old saying: “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”
For a short time in 1967 I took a few lessons with a British-born jazz musician in Fresno, California, about an hour south of Merced and Castle AFB. He made me write out all the inversions of triads, 6th, 7th, 9th, and 13th chords in all major and minor keys—a workbook I still have.... keep reading »