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Thirteen Ways: Focus
by AAJ Staff
Focus, the second record by the trio of Fred Hersch, Michael Moore, and Gerry Hemingway, continues with the same emphasis on intimacy and subtlety found on their self-titled debut. To quote from the fifth verse of the Wallace Stevens poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird":
I do not know which to prefer The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes The blackbird whistling Or just after.
That's the idea ...
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by Mark Corroto
For an artist the process of abstracting an idea reveals the genius of his/her work. Picasso would begin with the reality of say, a bull. He would draw it many ways, each time paring away the unnecessary elements until he had captured the essence of the bull. He said this simplifying leaves merely the idea of the object, which stirs the emotions of a viewer. Mathematicians and poets evoke the same procedure, leaving what many would say; “I could do ...
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by Glenn Astarita
Music-Magic is likely to occur when you unite woodwind specialist Michael Moore with pianist Fred Hersch and the very “musical” drummer/composer Gerry Hemingway for a recording session! Each one of these fine modernists are equally at home whether performing free-improv, chamber, mainstream or music so indefinable that mere words or classifications could be rendered banal or meaningless. With their 2nd recording, “Thirteen Ways” continue their excursions as a band that simply, was meant to be or as they say in ...
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by Glenn Astarita
Music-Magic is likely to occur when you unite woodwind specialist Michael Moore with pianist Fred Hersch and the very “musical” drummer/composer Gerry Hemingway for a recording session! Each one of these fine modernists are equally at home whether performing free-improv, chamber, mainstream or music so indefinable that mere words or classifications could be rendered banal or meaningless. With their 2nd recording, “Thirteen Ways” continue their excursions as a band that simply, was meant to be or as they say in ...
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