Music, Arts & Esoteric Philosophy
"Creativity is difficult if not impossible to understand completely. Perhaps it's supposed to remain a mystery that we probe eternally. If so, I depend on someone like you to lead us in that endeavor." -Deng Ming Dao
Award-winning author and film director ranges widely: from politics and media to music and movies, and features the best political cartoons almost daily.
I have written over twenty books, including seventeen novels, and won the Booker Prize for fiction. Words are my faith, novels my passion, great novelists my paragons of truth. You might think I should get out more. You are right.
Chaotic Good Jazz is a weekly newsletter digging into the wild, the weird, and the deeply groovy corners of modern jazz. Each issue features fresh finds, focusing on experimental & spiritual grooves to acid jazz bangers & off-the-rails sax solos.
A newsletter about the music industry, technology, marketing, and the intersection of all three, brought to you by the strategic marketing agency Motive Unknown.
Darren knows what's going on in the business of music, if you read him regularly you will too.
Since 2014, I have been interviewing musicians and members of the creative class, telling stories and asking questions. WBGO | All About Jazz | 2023 & 2025 Signal Award Winner | Multi instrumentalist composer producer.