Vonski

Earl Lavon Freeman, Sr.

1923-2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CA6U5meqm4

http://www.examiner.com/article/von-freeman-chicago-saxophone-legend-dies-at-88

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzuYo6OxkaY

The Later Von: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azzAPY1–l0&feature=related

…and http://www.examiner.com/article/von-freeman-s-memorial-service-details-announced-for-chicago-jazz-star

Yay Science, Yes… But Everything Ain’t Science

 

“Every softer discipline these days seems to feel inadequate unless it becomes harder, more quantifiable, more scientific, more precise. That, it seems, would confer some sort of missing legitimacy in our computerized, digitized, number-happy world. But does it really? Or is it actually undermining the very heart of each discipline that falls into the trap of data, numbers, statistics, and charts? Because here’s the truth: most of these disciplines aren’t quantifiable, scientific, or precise. They are messy and complicated. And when you try to straighten out the tangle, you may find that you lose far more than you gain.”

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/2012/08/10/humanities-arent-a-science-stop-treating-them-like-one/