BAM, BANG, BOOM (156.12) - This piece was written on the side stage at Brooklyn Academy of Music while I was working on a commercial shoot, my day job for 13 years. Such a beautiful psycho-acoustic location. It is the second movement of a long, long series of works entitled "Porch Music" that runs some 13 movements in various combinations of the quintet: trumpet, clarinet/bass clarinet, vibraphone, viola, cello. This work is in three movements, classical style but written in free jazz minimalist fashion. Also the day this was written was the day Steve Ben-Isreal died, famous poet from the Rzewski works so the third movement includes a quote from 'Coming Together' originally narrated by Ben-Isreal. We did a shared a bill once at the Poets' Vision Fest, part of the Vision Festival - I played with my tuba trio, Andrew Barker and Ron Caswell. We had to climb through the second story window to the fire escape and climb back into the garden. I remember B...
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