The Nightside — John Coltrane: The Physics of Jazz

A poem celebrating the birth of John Coltrane by Andy O’

Interstellar Giant Steps and spiritual awakening

How can 12 lbs. of brass turn breath into Expression and Ascension

Meditations in a Moment’s Notice

Sainted by some a church bears his name

The Jazz of Physics, the Physics of Jazz

Jazz and science

Invariance and symmetry

Jazzy physics

Trane dug Einstein

Einstein dug Trane

Practice is preparing

Physics, stripping complex into simple

Like Jazz!

The algorithm of rhythm

Being free is endless fearlessness

There are no mistakes

In life, in Jazz…

Maybe that’s not true.

Play the wrong note in Epistrophy

and you have stepped into an empty elevator shaft.

Trane flight Trane light

Trane is what we salute tonight

Join us on the Nightside on Sunday, September 22 at 9 p.m. on KUVO JAZZ on the eve of Coltrane’s Birthday.

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Photo by JP Jazz Archive/Getty — John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, and Art Davis live in Copenhagen, in 1961.
Source: aeon /Essays / Uniting the Mysterious Worlds of Quantum Physics & Music