Casa Jonsson

My love of Jazz at Oberlin is no secret. This record continues to pay dividends after numerous hearings. I recently discovered in it a handful of classical music quotations hidden in several of Paul Desmond’s alto saxophone solos.
In 1953 jazz was not widely considered an art form worthy of study in American universities and conservatories. […]

Posted on June 21st, 2005 by Nils
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Several friends of Casa Jonsson have begun contributing to a new weblog, called Common Grounds Online. The site is an outgrowth of a book on the topic of what C. S. Lewis called “the great conversation.” Linc Ashby and Pat Roach are ministers at our church. Jenny Staff Johnson, together with her husband, Mark, runs Strange […]

Posted on June 13th, 2005 by Nils
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