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
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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