The Marlowsphere Blog

“No Day But Today” A Lesson in Risk & Courage

The Marlowsphere Blog (#137) A few weeks ago my wife and I attended a musical...

Veterans Day Is About Remembering

The Marlowsphere Blog (#136) Veterans Day is this Friday, November 11. It became a national...

Kids + Jazz Is Alive And Well

The Marlowsphere Blog (#135) It would be easy to make the statement that the younger...

Book Review: “Letters to Yeyito: Lessons from a Life in Music” by Paquito d’Rivera

The Marlowsphere Blog (#134) Letters to Yeyito (Restless Books, Brooklyn, NY, 228 pages, softcover, 2015)...

Retreat from the Future

The Marlowsphere Blog (#133) There we were in the second half of the 20th century, having...

Film Analysis: The Significance of Doors In Francis Ford Coppola’s “Godfather I”

The Marlowsphere Blog (#132) Often enough, creative artists in the various fine and performing arts...

Photonics, Globalism, and Tribalism

The Marlowsphere Blog (#130) [Over time] Man’s communications technologies . . . have moved from...

Four Generations of Chinese Jazz Musicians

Marlowsphere Blog (#129) Western perceptions to the contrary, jazz in mainland China has survived through...

“Innovating and Integrating Information Technology: Some Cautionary Notes”

Innovation and integration may be the organizational trend of the day, but just as Rome...

“Under the Influence of. . . Frank and Butch and Sonny and Rudy: Part II”

The Marlowsphere Blog (#127) There’s an old saying: “When the student is ready, the teacher...