Egyptian God, Amon(Amen) The Invisible Creative Power - Hidden From View: Akhnaton, Moses and the Origins of Monotheism

Not knowing about the usage of "Amen" in our everyday prayer has led to may people not really knowing,or being ignorant of why is it that they use the saltation: "Amen". This is a powerful Name or word or salutation to utter through ones lips. Thus, it became important that a historical research be done and trace the name from its origins and that meant digging into remote antiquity in the past and contemporary times. The lifting of the confusion and myths about "Amen" has been treated with vari

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The Cigarette Diaries III: The Lure of Addiction

To some, this may be a presumptuous move, but I would like to dedicate this piece to a woman who has written her heart out and in turn, touched mine. Her name is Anne Lamott, and her books, "Bird by Bird," "Operating Instructions," and others have...

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Top 100 jazz songs, The 100 great jazz songs of all time

This is my list of the 100 top jazz songs of all time. Before I go any further, I need to make a couple of things clear. First, I really love jazz music. It is an important part of my everyday life and I cannot begin to imagine my daily...

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Sun Ra: Brother from Another Planet

Come travel the spaceways with our favorite man from Saturn, Sun Ra!

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SUN RA - Quotes and Poetry

Sun Ra It was in the early 1980s when I got my first Sun Ra records. From 1986 to 1992 I had the pleasure to attended four of his extraordinary performances, including the 1986 concert in East Berlin. But he was not only one of the greatest band...

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Half a Century on Stage - Free Jazz Legend Peter Brötzmann celebrates his 70th Birthday

Peter Brtzmann 2010 "Maybe in '66 or '68 we had the idea of changing the world a little bit with the music or the arts, but that is a thing of impossibility. What you can do is convince a person from time to time to think differently about...

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Bach, Blues and Sun Ra or The Art of Improvisation in Music

The first humans who invented music were improvisers, the first cries of a new born child is improvised music. So, improvisation is the main source of new inventions in music. Everything starts with improvisation. In the following hub I would like...

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Great Jazz Records

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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

If you’ve never heard of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, don’t feel badly, I hadn’t either until I stumbled across one of their videos on Youtube one night. After the first couple of bars of the song, I was SOLD. These young brass stallions of...

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The Malcontent Pseudo Pharma InterAstral Rattus Rattus that Subdued the Suburban Disillusioned Dude

This fictitious short story is dedicated to the jazz art angel Sun Râ. “Nature doesn’t repeat itself…why should I repeat myself?” The thin grey figure stood eight feet tall, walking down the sidewalk during an amber sunrise she called...

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