30 Mar 1202: d. Joachim of Fiore, #monk, #mystic & millenarian #otd. His writings took on new popularity after European, especially Franciscan, missionaries began to work in the Americas in the 16thC.
Three shades of jazz swirled together in 1959 to make ‘Kind of Blue’
Frank Sinatra biographer James Kaplan has set his sights on three jazz giants
— Miles #Davis, John #Coltrane and Bill #Evans
— as their lives and their art lead up to the recording of 🔹Kind of Blue🔹 Davis’ landmark 1959 album that featured Coltrane on tenor saxophone and Evans on piano.
The album marked a commercial and creative peak in jazz, the summit of what Kaplan, in the book’s subtitle, calls 🔹The Lost Empire of Cool.🔹
Along the way we meet a supporting roster comprising some of 20th century music’s greatest minds and talents.
There’s Charlie #Parker, the sax virtuoso who, along with trumpeter Dizzy #Gillespie, all but created bebop, and who left many followers scrambling to emulate his every move — including, tragically, his insatiable heroin addiction.
There’s Thelonious #Monk, the bearlike composer and pianist who thought in rhythms that others couldn’t fathom.
There’s Ornette #Coleman, the Texas-born saxophonist whose experiments went further out than even Coltrane (for a time, anyway) and left many listeners and peers baffled and even angry.
I am taking a break from #Outlander and watching #Monk for the first time. I am usually not much for crime detective stuff, but monk is pretty cute and funny.
If you were a fan of the TV show #Monk and thought that you could pass a couple of enjoyable hours watching the new sequel movie on Peacock, please be warned that it is much much darker in tone than the original series, and there is a lot of suicidal ideation expressed throughout the two hours.
They leaned all the way into the pandemic truly breaking Monk and putting him emotionally lower than he’s ever been.
Funny coincidence, as we've been methodically working our way through sequential seasons of the old crime drama/comedy #Monk for more than a year. We see an ep every week or so
We watched the next one up this evening, and it was a Halloween episode. Totally unplanned serendipity.
Did you know that the place with the most "#qi" in #Korea is a #mountain?
Qi translates to "breath". It is a force within the body that keeps one healthy. It is a prominent concept in many #Asian#belief systems & underlies #Chinese#medicine.
Gyeryongsam is an 845m high mountain in Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea.
Doseon Guksa, a #Korean#Buddhist#Monk from the 9th c. saw the mountain as perfectly positioned for Feng Shui.