Music I Make: Full Tilt Bozo

Freddie May Fannie – Written/Performed during the market crash of 2008

“In the key of C (If I can Stand it)” a part of the 5200 Note series I did in 2005 or so where I took 3 Casio Privia keyboards with a record capability of 5200 notes each and played an improvised line, then added a second line with 5200 notes on the next piano then another with 3rd piano then sometimes played all three with some other instrument.
so it’s single line improv then 2 line counterpoint then 3 line counterpoint then possible 4 line conterpoint with other instrument

PianoDrum:Dedicated To Shawn Philips and Peter

“You Don’t Get Many Days Like This” — A performance at Houston Community College Honor Society, that didn’t go as planned.    Is it Full Tilt Bozo to let the beat fall off the rhythmic structure, to let the melody take the back seat or be every seat on the bus, to see tonality as ‘tonality of moment’ rather than atonality or fixed tonality, to eshew twelve-tone equal temperment and think of an infinite array of tonal possibilities that are fixed for a time into a mode of this instant and then move on to other array , to find the intersection of jazz and classical music where the highest expectations of both are realized?  Yes, sometimes it is!  And most of the time it is music, sometimes great music.

The  sound of this music comes from NO restrictions caused by the need to repeat beat patterns, even if there is someone dancing, from no obligatory primacy of melody, from no tonal base required by tonal music other than the tonality or atonality of moment, from interaction with the ambiance and other players and from expectations reconfigured to find music in wider definitions than previously, the hallmark of what sometimes was the push toward new sounds in jazz and the embracing of new sonic landscapes that has always been the yang of classical music moving forward.  The mastery of this type of music is not in virtuoso fast-sequence finger memory, but in virtuoso performance of highly evolved spontaneous  interaction of all elements of musical composition from a practice of working toward the ability to play anything, at any time.

For Ralph Patt . improvised by Full Tilt Bozo

A little MOOOORRE FULL TILT BOZO?