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 | John StetchHeavens Of A Hundred DaysLabel: Justin Time | Jazz | October 17, 2000Format UPC Order # Unit Price |
TracksNo Title Duration Excerpts 01 Heavens Of A Hundred Days 00:05:53 02 Urakawa 00:06:20 04 Duet #1 00:03:32 06 Autumn In New York 00:05:27 07 Point 00:03:56 09 McWorld 00:03:18 10 Heavens Of A Hundred Days (Solo) 00:04:10 Album DetailsFor Heavens of a Hundred Days, The Canadian-born jazz pianist has brought together band members Bill McHenry on saxophone, Ben Street on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums for an intimate yet vivacious session. The album features mostly original compositions from Stetch, as well as some standards - a luscious version of Autumn in New York, contrasted by a quirky but grooving take on Love for Sale. The tunes are presented in various group formations of quartet, trio, duo and solo. Liner NotesHeavens of a hundred daysMoving Forward The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. It seems things are more like me now, that I can see farther into paintings. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven, out of the oak, and in the ponds broken off from the sky my feeling sinks, as if standing on fishes. Rainer Maria Rilke Taken from the book Selected Poems Of Rainer Maria Rilke Copyright 1981 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of Harper Collins Publishers -------------------- Urakawa Slicing winter Gusts rocks Among cedars Basho (1644 1694) Note: Title not part of Bashos poem Urakawa is a city in Northern Japan. -------------------- Rondeau "Rondo is a musical form in which one section, called a refrain, is repeated between contrasting sections. The repeat is usually exact or very little modified, giving the scheme a format such as ABACAD etc. One of music's more basic and enduring structures, it successfully meets the constant need for both order and variety when sound moves through time." Burton Hatheway, composer --------------------- Duet #1 Things to do Tuesday Put clothes in washer while singing Find pruning shears in garage and clip back north hedge, singing Lunch at 1:00 wt Steve and Kathy- between bites, sing Be sure to pick up the drycleaning before five singing Bring in car for axle realignment, explain problem to mechanic. Fix price first, then continue singing Michael Londry -------------------- Love For Sale This is the way, walk ye in it. Isaiah ch. 30, v. 21 -------------------- Autumn in New York Opens his eyes, looks around the room as he talks to the moon, he says "god in the skies", "did I do something right that I'm with her this night" and he sees a perfect angel sleeping, and he cries ... If we were never ugly, and never were mean, then we'd never need angels, and never need dreams, and the innocence dark drapes us in wouldn't seem, half so deep excerpt from "Perfect Angels" - Mike Rud, singer-songwriter Copyright Socan 1999 -------------------- Point "Let the point be moved so far out of its practical-useful situation that it loses its connection with the flow of the sentence. Today I am going to the movies In this case, the point must have considerable open space around it, in order that it's sound may have resonance. In spite of this, its sound remains delicate - overpowered by the sound of the print surrounding it." Wassily Kandinsky From the Point And Line To Plane Dover Publications, New York, 1979 -------------------- Duet #2 "It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are." Publilius Syrus (c. 42 B.C.) -------------------- McWorld "paints that future in shimmering pastels, a busy portrait of onrushing economic, technological, and ecological forces that demand integration and uniformity and that mesmerize peoples everywhere with fast music, fast computers, and fast food" Benjamin Barber From Jihad vs. McWorld. Reprinted by permission of Times Books, a Division of Random House -------------------- Heavens of a hundred days Cirrus, Stratus, Cumulonimbus Wow! Over 13 tone-rows of rainbow source of lightning's unfrozen sound. Danger (or maybe a joke): affixing labels to ever-changing soul-subliming variations upon impromptu creations Nature. Q. Art ? John Stetch |
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