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I. Belén (orginal, solo guitar)

Put Your Records On

Time after Time

I’m only Sleeping

Norwegian Wood

Can’t Buy Me Love

That’s It, I Quit, I’m Moving on

Georgia

II. I Feel the Earth Move

Satisfaction

Honky Tonk Woman

Trouble

Stay with Me

Please Try (original)

Redemption Song

Me and Bobby McGee

III. Blues for Alice (solo guitar)

Fly me to the Moon

All of Me

God Bless the Child

Summer Time

The Thrill Is Gone

Every Day I Have the Blues

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09 Tall Grass on High Fields (Norman Blake)

Here’s an original song from the mid-eighties recorded over the winter break in Dave Iwinski’s home studio.

Barely touched-up.    los-años-1 ]]> http://www.rturahjazz.com/2012/01/06/los-anos/en/feed/en/ http://www.rturahjazz.com/2011/11/04/aja-trio-big-river-rehearsal/en/ http://www.rturahjazz.com/2011/11/04/aja-trio-big-river-rehearsal/en/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:31:21 +0000 arturo http://www.rturahjazz.com/?p=227 Very much looking forward to Sunday’s show with Alan Gleason on bass, and Jim Ediger

on fiddle.  Trying to upload a track from our rehearsal.  A new flavor for Art.

Music is a lot of things–melody, dance rhythm, community, story-telling, good-time party drive—and I’ve often bristled at descriptions of Jazz as “too intellectual”. “Listen to Billie Holiday or Coltrane’s A Love Supreme.” However, I have to admit that much of what I enjoyed at the jazz-guitar duo performance the other night was this jaw-dropping display of brain power. One thing music is, is an opportunity to watch/hear intelligence in action. Sound shapes sculpted on the spot. Narrative improvised in poetic lines, reined in by time, dual rhyme of rhythm displayed to amaze. Yet sweet, like a bee over a flower, sharing the powder (poder joder) of generation and stinging at the stop. We want more. No, go home; leave the flower for another day. What does it take to learn to play that way? Sound asleep on the train going home, now I’m awake at four, in a zone, with my love on my right and my guitar on my left, a pain in my breast; the same old fear of failure to learn … to … be …

Muy buena música anoche en un club pequeñísimo cerca de donde ahora vivo.

皆旨かった。　特に島岡さんのギターに印象された。又行きます。