The Secret Hyperlink Between Jazz and Physics: How Einstein & Coltrane Shared Improvisation and Instinct in Frequent

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Sci­en­tists want hob­bies. The gru­el­ing work of nav­i­gat­ing com­plex the­o­ry and the pol­i­tics of acad­e­mia can get to a per­son, even one as laid again as Brown Uni­ver­si­ty professional­fes­sor and astro­physi­cist Stephon Alexan­der. So Alexan­der performs the sax­o­telephone, although at this level it might not be accu­charge to name his avo­ca­tion a spare time pur­go…

John Coltrane Attracts a Image Illustrating the Arithmetic of Music

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Physi­cist and sax­o­phon­ist Stephon Alexan­der has argued in his many pub­lic lec­tures and his e-book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Ein­stein and John Coltrane had rather a lot in com­mon. Alexan­der in par­tic­u­lar attracts our atten­tion to the so-called “Coltrane cir­cle,” which resem­bles what any musi­cian will rec­og­nize because the “Cir­cle of Fifths,” however…