[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ layout=”1_1″ last=”yes” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”” animation_speed=”0.1″ class=”” id=”” min_height=”” hover_type=”none” link=””][fusion_text]The first in a four-part series on Hazrat Inayat Khan’s teachings on the Mysticism of Sound & Music. Based on his book, The Sufi Message Volume II: The Mysticism of Sound.
After contributing seven decades of musical direction and genius, Randy Weston remains one of the world’s foremost pianists and composers today, a true innovator and visionary.
Encompassing the vast rhythmic heritage of Africa, his global creations musically continue to inform and inspire. “Weston has the biggest sound of any jazz pianist since Ellington and Monk, as well as the richest most inventive beat,” states jazz critic Stanley Crouch, “but his art is more than projection and time; it’s the result of a studious and inspired intelligence…an intelligence that is creating a fresh synthesis of African elements with jazz technique”.
The liner notes for Dr. Weston’s latest CD, Sound, mention Hazrat Inayat Khan as an influence. www. randyweston.info
Pir Zia Inayat-Khan continues his grandfather’s teachings as the spiritual leader of The Inayati Order, an interfaith, mystical fellowship with branches worldwide. His books include Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest (2012) and Mingled Waters: Sufism & the Mystical Unity of Religions (2017). Pir Zia and his family live in Richmond, Virginia, where he teaches regularly at the Inayati Order’s North American headquarters, called the Astana.
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