Good stuff from one of the first posts on what looks to be a promising and thought provoking blog from left coast trumpeter/composer/improviser Kris Tiner.
THE SOUL AND THE SYSTEM: WHY CREATIVE MUSIC?:
“Ultimately though, the creative musician must be concerned with engendering a public awareness of music as a social and spiritual resource, to move people to a deeper understanding of those communal aspects of music which operate on a more fundamental level than style and type. “