John Coltrane Attracts a Image Illustrating the Arithmetic of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his e-book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had rather a lot in common. Alexander in particular attracts our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles what any musician will recognize because the “Circle of Fifths,” however…