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Scratch
Up late talking to my brother last night means up late this morning. On time, though. Got to work and felt the crackling nerves of energy and excess brainpower. I feel like I’m a school of fish and a fishing boat at the same time. The net is in the water, and as my fish…
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highway rider
Changed my little album dealio on the left there after way too many months to Brad Mehldau’s 2010 album Highway Rider. Highway Rider is an album that has really grown on me. I liked it immediately—I really like Mehldau’s easygoing harmonic language and percussive style, and the album was produced my one of my favorite…
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Game of Tones
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GsIsV8DyiY] Ahmad Jamal Trio with Gary Burton “One” (1981) Gary Burton’s reflexes in this performance make me so jealous. Ahmad Jamal is actively trying to fuck with him and throw him off, and once he catches on to that, his responses are genius.
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El Amor Brujo
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz7-617UaYc] Miles Davis “Will o’ the Wisp” from Sketches of Spain 1. prologue In a weird case of repeating myself, I had another revelation recently while trying to track down the origins of a Miles Davis tune. A few weeks ago, I described my journey of tracking down the origins of a particular combination of…
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On Sacred Ground
I’ll be up late writing a paper on the significance of the compositional chronology of the last section of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor,* but I wanted to link to a release of the premiere performance of On Sacred Ground, The Bad Plus’ reworking of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Pianist Ethan Iverson is…
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Trio in Triptych
MOTB tracks down the origin of a tune used in Kind Of Blue
