E(b)Majination

[nickc]

 I recorded this a few days ago... Hope you guys enjoy it! It's an exploration of the key of "Eb". Thanks for listening.

[ted]

It is certainly epic in that you seem to use a wider variety of cell type than previously, and the transitions are discrete rather than continuous, almost as if you had recorded it in separate chunks. I enjoyed the sequence commencing around 8:00, where classical cells, or cells sounding like those irritable bits of Beethoven over pedal points, are answered by cells of more modern idiom. I found that juxtaposition effective. That is one of the glorious freedoms of improvisation, that we can intersperse cell content from many genres of the past. A distinguished musician here told me my playing was too "polyglot" because of this, but I took scant notice of him. The Asian influence is still strongly present here, and rightly so, because it is fundamental to your musical psyche.