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International Jazz Conspiracy
May 13, 2020 10:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Music/Experimental
With Emel
The program is a sonic journey through contemporary jazz, free improvisation, new music, hindustani music, flamenco, world music, underground, avant garde and art music from different corners of the globe, as well as interviews and live studio performances by local and visiting artists and the occasional musical restructuring*. An adventure in sound, a journey into the tone world.
We strive to present music with duende, a term originally used by flamenco musicians referring to inspiration, magic and fire in music. There is no direct translation for it in English, but the closest would be "soulful".
The famous Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca often speaks of duende. In his lecture "El juego y la teoria del duende" (Play and Theory of the Duende) he says:
"All through Andalucia. . . people speak constantly of duende, and recognize it with unfailing instinct when it appears... These dark sounds are the mystery, the roots... from which we get what is real in art... Thus duende is a force and not a behavior, it is a struggle and not a concept. I have heard an old master guitarist say: ‘Duende is not in the throat; duende surges up from the soles of the feet.’ Which means it is not a matter of ability, but of true living style; of blood; of ancient culture; of spontaneous creation."
Duende is not just found in flamenco though. In the liner notes of Miles Davis' 1964 album My Funny Valentine, Nat Hentoff says: "In trying to distill the particular mesmeric quality of Miles Davis, Kenneth Tynan has referred to the Spanish word DUENDE: 'It has no English equivalent,' he explained, but it denotes 'the ability to transmit a profoundly felt emotion with the minimum of fuss and the maximum of restraint... Miles Davis has DUENDE.' "
Hosted by Emel Sherzad.
'May music never just become another way of making money.'
- Keith Tippett
*musical restructuring: simultaneous playback/mixing of various audio sources, a.k.a. audio collage.
Remembering free jazz and avant garde drummer Rashid Ali (1933-2009)
10:01 PM |
| Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchadanada Journey in Satchadanada Impulse!
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10:07 PM |
| Alice Coltrane Huntington Ashram Monastery Huntington Ashram Monastery Impulse! 1969
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10:15 PM |
| ORIGINAL PHALANX Troublemaker DIW
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10:19 PM |
| Alice Coltrane Something About John Coltrane (feat. Pharoah Sanders) Journey in Satchadanada Impulse
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10:32 PM |
| John Coltrane & Rashid Ali Mars Interstellar Space Impulse!
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10:42 PM |
| Rashid Ali & Leroy Jenkins Swift Are the Winds of Life Swift Are the Winds of Life Knitting Factory
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10:52 PM |
| ORIGINAL PHALANX A Smile Original Phalanx DIW 1987
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11:01 PM |
| John Coltrane The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost-Compassion Meditations Impulse!
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11:21 PM |
| John Coltrane Offering Meditations Impulse!
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11:31 PM |
| Rashid Ali & Frank Lowe Exchange part 2 Duo Exchange Knitting Factory
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11:45 PM |
| Purple Trap Purple Maze Decided - Already the Motionless Heart of Tranquility, Tangling the Prayer Called I Blast First
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11:50 PM |
| Jaco Pastorius & Rashid Ali Purple Haze Blackbird Timeless
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