Benjamin Boone, Musician, Composer, and Professor

August 16, 2022 00:59:56
Benjamin Boone, Musician, Composer, and Professor
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Benjamin Boone, Musician, Composer, and Professor

Aug 16 2022 | 00:59:56

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Show Notes

Today we have Benjamin Boone on the program. Boone is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, professor, and U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Ghana (2017-18) and the Republic of Moldova (2006). His Origin Records album THE POETRY OF JAZZ was #3 "Best Album of 2018" in the 83rd Annual Downbeat Readers Poll and featured on NPR's All Things Considered, The Paris Review and many others.


Books:

Furnace Creek Joseph A. Boone 

Dreamt Land Mark Arax 

The Fallen Stones Diana Marcum 

The Historian Elizabeth Kostova 

Louis Penny’s Author Page

Maisie Dobbs Series  Jacqueline Winspear 

Effortless Mastery Kenny Werner 

The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Victor Wooten 

Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely 

Fredrick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight 

The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America Matthew Pearl 

 

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