The Mindful Bard: Monsieur Lazhar
In Conversation with . . . Giacomo Gates, Part I
http://www.voicemagazine.org/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=8702Lorentz arrives to introduce the musicians. He then presents Giacomo Gates. Giacomo mounts the stage, folds his lanky frame onto a wooden bar stool, politely gives Bruce and John a song and a key, and launches into a standard. The experience of seeing and hearing him live after having listened to his recordings for a week is like walking from a closet into an arena. The man is a natural performer and his voice is better suited to spaces than to audio recordings. And in the one area that makes jazz performance so delightful to watch—that of group rapport—this little … Continue reading In Conversation with . . . Giacomo Gates, Part I
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LABORINTUS II
Whose idea was this, anyway? Mike Patton, an alternative pop culture icon dabbling in the widely disparate fields of heavy metal and serious avant-garde music, has just produced and performed in a recording of Laborintus II, a work by the late Luciano Berio, an avant-garde composer with historical ties to pop culture icons. Berio’s three-act storyless opera was first performed at Mills College in California in 1967, the same year in which Berio appeared on the cover of the Sergeant Pepper album. http://www.voicemagazine.org/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=8681 Continue reading LABORINTUS II
The Mindful Bard 