Jason Yarde: New Music 20×12
For:
Skip, Dash, Flow
Commissioned by:
Wonderbrass
Event date:
12th February 2012
Event venue:
The Globe, Cardiff
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Skip, Dash, Flow
Whenever you compose, particularly for Jazz musicians, their creative input is greatest at the moment of performance to the point you can be totally surprised and inspired in the direction they might take a composition making you hear things in a different way, presenting other possibilities. So, it would be nice to include this as an element at various stages of the writing process. That said rhythm and a mass of people are my starting blocks in terms of musical thinking. It’s important that the piece reflects the group its being written for so to that end I hope the listener feels a sense of fun, community, and coming together. As for which ears it reaches, the potential is untold for works created with such a strong association to such a major international event. I hope it finds willing listeners anywhere and I’m excited by the prospects both national and international. (JS)