Today’s antidote for the politics-related news blues offers blue flowers and an interesting musical crossover – from classics to blues (or at least jazz with a hint of blues… )

For some reason blue is not a frequent color in nature. Less than 10% of the 280.000 species of flowering plants have blue flowers. Or so I learn from the link below, that should hold some interest for avid gardeners.

http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/stories/the-science-of-blue-flowers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s something else that’s rare, if in art and not nature: truly successful musical crossover. I chose Bach’s concerto in D minor as arranged and played by Jaques Loussier and his Jazz trio.

Loussier and his trio have been at the cutting edge of fusing complicated classical pieces with jazz, exploiting and expanding the rhythmic and harmonic implications of the original(s). If this doesn’t bring cheer, I don’t know what will.