I want to direct you atten­tion to a blog I’ve just added to the roll, Scott Healy’s Pro­fes­sorscosco. He drew my atten­tion to it via direct feed­back on my “Orches­tra of Jazz Com­posers” post. Scott is explor­ing just that idea, how to be a com­poser in the world of jazz, what it means tech­ni­cally, philo­soph­i­cally and aes­thet­i­cally, and his blog is a place where you can fol­low his exper­i­ments and see him think­ing things through. It’s clear, inter­est­ing and worth your while.