Thriving on a Riff JPF Kathleen L

Kathleen L

Paul Redfern

Joshua Chambers-Letson maps a portrait of performance's capacity to produce what he calls a communism of incommensurability

including those specific to children and young people

Thriving on a Riff JPF Kathleen LIn Thriving on a Riff, Presbyterian minister and jazz pianist Bill Carter traces the meaning and spirituality of jazz, inviting us to meet a God who not only embraces syncopation but blesses the swing. What does jazz have to do with human spirituality? In Thriving on a Riff, Presbyterian minister and jazz pianist Bill Carter shows us how jazz, in its quest for transcendence, bridges the gap between the secular and the sacred and, further, that these