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Register LoginCrucial Track for April 19, 2026: "Sax" by Fleur East
#CrucialTracks 
Today's prompt: What song makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning, even in winter?
Fleur East - Sax
#Music #SundayStarter #FleurEast #Saxophone
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Much good news this week!!
My early music band has a website: https://lutenklang.org/
And I got a job as Music Director for a local community band. A dream of mine!
Https://gulfcoastconcertband.com
lo-fi avant-garde jazz music to scape and demise to
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IU1h8lzUloU — Laufey’s “From the Start” on Trumpet with music! #trumpet #laufey #fromthestart #brass #band (0:23)
In this clip from The Tonearm Podcast, saxophonist Ben Wendel describes the moment he walked toward the Village Vanguard stage for the first time as a bandleader and how fear dissolved into what he calls a lifting, supportive energy, as if the accumulated history of the room was urging him forward.
Don't miss the full conversation on the latest episode of our podcast: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/ben-wendel-assembling-the-mallet-avengers-barcode-saxophone/
Going to be a band-filled weekend. Playing in a huge wind ensemble doing tunes like the awesome 'Gandalf' by Johan de Meij.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MAf3K0SYfs
#windensemble #windband #orchestra #windorchestra #orchestral #demeij #johandemeij
Today’s workday: taught a couple Alexander technique students. Then practised some (about a million it felt like) hymns for a church service next Sunday. In Dutch. Then a recorder lesson and one more AT-lesson. After dinner rushed through two parts of Mozart op35 on bassoon, just before the recorder group arrived to practise for tomorrow’s students’ concert. It was not a boring day!
This morning's #workout #music is from Joy Guidry showing how to make an elevator, some laptop #ambient electronics, #drumMachine and #Bassoon into an amazing performance. Unique.
https://youtu.be/iLg1TuWAkwk
#WomenInMusic #beats #electroAcoustic #Bassoon #techno #KettleBells
#Oxford #music ppl: come along and #PlayForFun with #Cowley #orchestra #tomorrow! No auditions, no performances, no commitment required. https://cowleyorchestra.weebly.com/dates.html All #OrchestralInstruments welcome. #violin #viola #cello #DoubleBass #flute #clarinet #oboe #bassoon #trumpet #cornet #horn #trombone #tuba why not try #conducting taking turns with others? Also, feel free to suggest a piece from our vast #MusicLibrary (>350 sets). #JoinIn #PlaySomeMusic #ClassicalMusic #Baroque thru to #FilmMusic
The Golden Flute is an album by American jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label.
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "Lateef has long been a true original, and he revitalizes the standards while always swinging and being a bit unpredictable. Well worth searching for" - Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AFWNr8xjbg&list=OLAK5uy_kGkXu-q6Y-SMvCQcndUS8eKYAQHW0S9hE
Captain Tarthopom by Jean Cohen-Solal, released on Connection in 1973.
Phillipe wrote on Prog Archives:
First formed in electro acoustic researches and in contemporary improvised music, Jean Cohen Solal delivered two intriguing, very personal albums during the 70's. Today, Flute libres and Captain Tarthopom can be considered as ultimate masterpieces without reaching a specific musical label. These albums are a perfect mix between buzzing sitar-like mantra, weird electronic dream-like psychedelica and jazzy acid rock. Captain Tarthopom starts the cosmic, magical dance with two haunting folkish-epic compositions that include a certain sense of humour and derision (self title)...
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=18134
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bezftt6Am4Q
#JeanCohenSolal #Flute #Prog #CosmicMusic #Jazz #FrenchMusic #Music
Oh Yes Dear God 1 800 GO F*CK YOURSELF Dept :
Greg Koch : Why I’m Not Sorry For Playing Loud
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Was That Too Much ? Well there ya go. Funny thing is chances are your not going to be able to handle a live #Orchestra either. They can and often do tear heads off. You won’t find them apologizing
Agreed to fill in in a community orchestra nearby for a concert end of May. I’m glad they’re not doing this movement in pro-orchestra tempo because it’s brutal enough to practise as it is.
Combining playing bassoon and singing in the same day is somewhat challenging it turns out. For singing my face, tongue and throat have to as free as possible. Bassoon playing tends to cause all kinds of little tensions to creep in.
In this excerpt from the new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, saxophonist Ben Wendel explains how he built the BaRcoDe ensemble by consulting vibraphonist Joel Ross, generating a list of about fifteen players, and then selecting four whose approaches were distinct enough to give him the widest possible palette—describing the goal as assembling the "Avengers of Mallet Players."
Be sure to listen to the entire conversation: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/ben-wendel-assembling-the-mallet-avengers-barcode-saxophone/
Had a blast with the kid at possibly the best Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra event I’ve seen in years. Coincidentally, I got to see some old friends I hadn’t seen in years.
In case the image doesn’t make it clear, they displayed the film while playing the score live. It made for an unforgettable viewing of a movie I’ve seen dozens of times.
I also got the inside scoop on next year’s film score. 
#minnesota #duluth #superior #symphony #orchestra #music #movies #indianajones
Lateef at Cranbrook (also reissued as Yusef Lateef) is a live album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1958 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and released on the Argo label.
A rare treasure from Yusef Lateef -- one of his hardest to find albums, recorded right around the same time as his magical work for Savoy! The record has Lateef playing in his local Detroit area -- working with Terry Pollard on piano, William Austin on bass, and Frank Gant on a host of percussion instruments. The tracks have that open, percussive, and exotic feel that we love the most in Lateef -- soul jazz taken to a very righteous territory, and one of the first powerful flowerings of the Detroit underground. Includes a really long version of "Morning", plus "Let Every Soul Say Amen", "Brazil", and "Woody N You" - Dusty Groove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpIEqSK_0YU
#YusefLateef #JazzFlute #oboe #argol #Jazz #WorldMusic #Music
Ended the weekend and welcomed the week after a walk with Skies of America the 17th album by jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released on Columbia Records in 1972...
..Coleman took a sabbatical to Montana in 1965. Coleman witnessed a group of Native Americans and it inspired him.
"It was so cold," he said of that time in Montana. "It must have been 2 or 3 below zero, and when I saw the American Indians praying, doing their purity ritual, they looked like their bodies were transparent. All of a sudden, I saw the American Indian and the sky as the same people. It taught me something about religion, race, wealth, poverty, commerce. I said: 'Oh, I'm going to go over to the other side. I only want to be on the side of the consciousness that comes to people naturally.'" - Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Qi9UzQt9M
#OrnetteColeman #ThirdStream #Jazz #Music #Orchestra #LondonSymphonyOrchestra #NativeAmericans #AvantGarde
