jazz composition accompanies "David Bateman Painting"

This video of artist David Bateman painting has the soundtrack from the jazz composition

"Spring in Cracow".

"David Bateman painting"

"Musings" (for Wardell Gray)

Wardell Gray was a tenor player in the early days of bop, with a very distinctive and beautiful style. I have been listening to him and thinking about him, so I wrote this composition.

"Musings" (for Wardell Gray)

"more space" (for matisse and coltrane)

new jazz video with previously unreleased track from 2009

"more space" (for matisse and coltrane)

wanderings in minor (with a silence)

exploring minors for Act Two.

"wanderings in minor (with a silence) June 1"

something in a poem I am writing

"in a maelstrom of misogyny,

she has being"

"sculpture"

The themes in this track are subtle but very central to the story

"sculpture"

"défaire" (to undo)

recorded at a concert performance April 18.

"défaire" (to undo)

"A Certain Kind of Nothingness"

Its an important concept, nothingness.

"A Certain Kind of Nothingness"

jazz theme for Tillie Stern

Tillie Stern is the mother of my father's mother.

"Tillie Stern"

composer observations about changes in the playing

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I am going through something whirlwind internally in the music. Some change in my actual physical relation to the playing...or the relation to what is in me and how it goes through the instrument to the room. A piano player thinks with her fingers guided by very rough blurry shapes in the mind (of the shape of the stack of notes in the chord). When the paying audiences of the past inhibited my physical presence, with their enormous emotional needs and prejudices, I learned how to play well no matter what....but it is the "what" that I was so used to, and proud of surmounting, that I never knew the ways in which I was unfree...now I am becoming free of constraints I did not know I had. I thought I was safe, tucked there behind the piano in my own little world. I didn't know the details of how or where I was controlled.

Well, we were having a relationship (me and the audiences): and there was so much feeling in the relationship, that I thought I was expressing, expressing, expressing. Well, I was, in many ways...but unconsciously I was "maid" to order, in some ways.

But it was all to the good. If I had not had so many paying relationships with audiences, I would not have the skills to burst into this higher stage of unconsciousness.

charnie_wish@yahoo.ca

intuition #6

composition

"intuition #6"