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Tag Archives: Jazz
Truth in Abstraction
I Under a hollow sky grey worn concrete listens scream of a solitary car. “Just want to write something. anything. been too long. Mind, liquid pencil. You know.” Jazz tickets on the dash. (solo performer – no net over absurdity) … Continue reading
The Day It Rained Poetry (Poem)
The clouds rolled over and stayed there and got heavier, heavier and heavier still. The clouds cracked and the cracks got wider, wider and wider still until the contents poured out. Pages of poetry rained down, swirling on breezes, plastering … Continue reading
Jazz (A series of poems)
The wordless transmission between the artist and the audience. ~~~ Drifting aimlessly from the record player, the sounds of the improvising musician. Scuffs, scratches and scrapes, where is he going with this? In the inferno of disquiet faintly … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Artist, Audience, Blow, Chinese Style Poem, Honk, Horn, Improv, Improvisation, Inferno, Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino, Jazz, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Music, Musician, P.S.F, Play Unlimited, Poem, Poetry, PSF, Record, Record Player, Scrape, Scratch, Screech, Squawk, Wordless Transmission, Yoshizawa Motoharu
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City At Night
A cool and crisp night in the city is illuminated by its skyscrapers, its vast columns of light. Their radiance reveals a vibrant metropolis with a enlivened population, exploring the mammoth urban jungle. On the ground level street lights kindle … Continue reading
Posted in Fragments
Tagged Banter, Blues, Cajoling, City, Funk, Hollering, Human, Illuminate, Illuminated, Improvised, Jazz, Jungle, Light, Metropolis, Midnight, Neon, Night, People, Shouting, Shrieking, Sidewalk, Signs, Silence, Singing, Sky Scrapers, Soul, Spouting, Sprawl, Street, Thoroughfare, Urban, Urban Jungle, Urban Sprawl, Whispering, Yammering
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Record Review: Motoharu Yoshizawa/Mototeru Takagi: ABYSSE Duo
Note: This record appears to go under many names: Shinkai (which translates as Deep Sea), Duo Deep Sea and ABYSSE Duo. The last one is the name on the record labels website, PSF so it will be the one used … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Abe Kaoru, ABYSSE, Archie Shepp, Avant, Avant Garde, Bass, Bass Clarinet, Bassist, Bowed, Charles Tyler, Deep Sea, Dissonant, Duet, Duo, Four Units, Free, Free Improvisation, Free Jazz, Garde, High, Improvisation, Japan, Japanese, Jazz, Kaoru Abe, Lacy's Out East, Lonely Women, Low, Masahiko Togashi, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Mototeru Takagi, Music, Ornette Coleman, P.S.F, Plucked, PSF, Record, Recorder, Registers, Resonance, Review, Saxophone, Shinkai, Silence, Solo, Space, Takagi Mototeru, Tenor Saxophone, Togashi Masahiko, Tone, Traditional, Yoshizawa Motoharu
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Kaoru Abe, Alto Saxophone Improvisation, No.3 1.21.1972
For some basic information here is Kaoru Abe’s Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoru_Abe Unlike Motoharu Yoshizawa’s vast catalogue of music, Kaoru Abe’s is a little smaller. Well, it’s a lot smaller. But it more than makes up for that in energy and … Continue reading
Motoharu Yoshizawa (Mado – Window/Fragment 1)
Someone once said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture, and they were probably right. But let’s try it anyway. Motoharu Yoshizawa was a Japanese Free Jazz bassist who has an extensive, and excellent catalogue of music. At … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Avant Garde, Bass, Bassist, Beautiful, Fragment 1, Free, Free Improvisation, Free Jazz, Groove, Improvisation, Inland Fish, Jazz, Length, Mado - Window, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Music, Resonance, Simple, Tone
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Golden Giraffes Riding Scarlet Flamingos Through The Desert of Forever 