♪♫ "#Music is your own experience, your own thought, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music, but man there's no boundary line to #art."
Taking a week's break from #JazzBirthdays – will be at Lucerne Festival listening to some brilliant orchestras (Berlin Phil, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Boston SO), conductors (Blomstedt, Mälkki, Nelsons, Petrenko) and soloists (Mutter, S. Meyer, I. Kanneh-Mason, discovering some new people (Mao Fujita) and pieces (John Williams' 2nd violin concerto, Enno Poppe, Unsuk Chin ...). #Paradise indeed, as this year's edition is titled!
#NowListening to "For Jemeel - Fire from the Road (2004-2005)", a 3 CD set released earlier this year, dedicated to the late Jemeel Moondoc, who was part of the quartet documented here, Steve Swell's Fire Into Music, with William Parker and Hamid Drake.
Tony Aless (1921-1985) - piano
Victor Assis Brasil (1945-1981) - sax
Kenny Drew (1928-1993) - piano
Jon Fält (*1979) - drums
Stephen Gauci (*1966) - sax
Larry Goldings (*1968) - piano, organ
Michael Gregory Jackson (*1953) - guitar
Youn-Sun Nah (*1969) - singer
Jim Rotondi (*1962) - trumpet
Hal Russell (1926-1992) - genuine Hal Russell
Cécile McLorin Salvant (*1989) - singer
Phil Seamen (1926-1972) - drums
Peter Washington (*1964) - bass