Category Archives: Jazz and Basketball

Posts about the intersection between jazz and basketball.

Basketball, Grad School, and Jazz — California, Here I Come!

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Alex Rodríguez

If you’ve been wondering what’s kept me quiet here at the blog for the past couple of months, it has been the extremely stressful and nerve-wracking process that is graduate school admissions. US News’ Education page and Online Graduate Programs both … Continue reading →

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Trombone Shorty and Christian Scott As NBA Superstars

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Alex Rodríguez

Thanks to a tweet by freeform, I was just hipped to this recent article in the Wall Street Journal by jazz writer Larry Blumenfeld about New Orleans wunderkinds Christian Scott and Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews. It’s well-done, so give it … Continue reading →

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Are Jazz and Basketball Related?

Posted on June 21, 2009 by Alex Rodríguez

Exploring the similarities between jazz and basketball Continue reading →

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Something I don’t expect to be posting much …

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Alex Rodríguez

Since I started Lubricity last week, I’ve been thinking about the meaning of the word and, ironically, how this space will define itself in its own non-definitional way.  One way of going about this has been to think about what … Continue reading →

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