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International Jazz Conspiracy
May 27, 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.
10:00 PM |
| John Tchicai Group Calypso Boswell Put Up The Fight Storyville
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10:07 PM |
| John Tchicai and Strange Brothers Darktown Highlights John Tchicai and Strange Brothers Storyville
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10:11 PM |
| John Tchicai & Cadentia Nova Danica Afrodisiaca Afrodisiaca MPS 2014
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10:30 PM |
| John Tchicai & Yusef Komunyakaa Dolphy's Aviary/Malachite Love Notes From The Madhouse 8th Harmonic Breakdown
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10:45 PM |
| Hartmut Geerken, John Tchicai, Famoudou Don Moye Marconison Cassava Balls The Golden Years of Jazz 1999
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10:55 PM |
| John Tchicai with Strings Lied John Tchicai with Strings Treader
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11:00 PM |
| John Tchicai with Strings Solemn John Tchicai with Strings Treader
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11:08 PM |
| J. Tchicai, G. Fewell, T. Tracanna, P. Dalla Porta, M. Manzi Simplicity Big Chief Dreaming Soul Note
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11:14 PM |
| John Tchicai Trio Graceful Visitor Real Tchicai SteepleChase
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11:19 PM |
| John Tchicai Trio Moksha Point Real Tchicai SteepleChase
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11:24 PM |
| Johnny Dyani with John Tchicai and Dudu Pukwana Radebe Witchdoctor's Son SteepleChase
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11:32 PM |
| Hartmut Geerken, John Tchicai, Famoudou Don Moye Sawasawa Cassava Balls The Golden Years of Jazz 1999
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11:40 PM |
| Hartmut Geerken, John Tchicai, Famoudou Don Moye Post Ramadan Exhausters The African Tapes The Golden Years of Jazz
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11:51 PM |
| Miles Davis So What (Album Version) Kind of Blue Columbia/Legacy
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