June 28, 2016
Low Down Blues - Sissle's Sizzling Syncopaters [from Alan Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
What could be imitated, but not re-invented? Referenced, but not owned?
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| Louis Armstrong |
One gets the impression that Louis, with varying degrees of success, was doing everything he could to teach his band how to keep up with him. Sweet Papa isn't coming back.
Violin Concerto in D - Stravinsky - Philharmonia Orchestra, Paul Sacher, Anne-Sophie Mutter
A text book in how to unpack a tonality. Grooving on those ostinati, each chunk of their respective chunk chunk chunks facing in a new direction.
Trio - Cage - Seattle Percussion Collective [Greg Campbell, Denali Williams, Dale Speicher]
wind up toys
blank face percussive envelopes
measure our remove
Blue Serge - Duke Ellington [from Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz]
A movie-star affect, the way it turns its face aside at every of its last moments.
You Go To My Head - Sarah Vaughan [from Interlude - Early Recordings 1944-1947]
The lyrics veer toward being nothing but a list of words that rhyme, in particularly rhythmed places within the meter. Veer so far as to be nearly without meaning except to the extent that their rhyme is their reason. But the resulting near vacation of the expressive space allows colonization, gentrification, by Sarah's oh so deliberate pacing of tones.
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| not mc, but rather me, some decades past |
The Mighty Casey - William Schuman - Juilliard Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
It has some nice moments, and telling touches: the greek rhubarb choruses, and any of the instrumental interludes after the game gets going, are my personal favorites. Otherwise it would be pretty much a train wreck were it not for how it almost allows access to the sense of cosmic time shift that provides much of the aesthetic awe of baseball in the wild: that heady range of magnitudes between the scales of seasons, games, innings, ups, pitches, and the moments of shattering air.
Chamber Music for 13 Players - Arthur Berger - Columbia Chamber Ensemble, Gunther Schuller [from Music of Arthur Berger]
The pirate games that pitches play when our backs are turned.
In Session at the Tintinabulary
June 27, 2016
Banned Rehearsal 912 160627 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer
We celebrate the 32nd Bannediversary on the porch of the Tintinabulary.
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