Jazz CD with EBVT now available

List,

I have been extremely busy lately with the show, Man of La Mancha which opens
this week and concert prep and tuning for an annual chamber music series
which uses a 100 + year old Bechstein. The latter was a resounding success,
more on that and guitar tuning later but the good news today is that there is
at last a commercially available Jazz CD which features two pianos, a Yamaha
C6 and Kawai RX3, both tuned in my own design known as Equal Beating
Victorian Temperament (EBVT) with Tempered Octaves. (See my website through
the link below for more information)

The artist is Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory. The title of the CD is
"Song for my Sister". I was indeed given credit for my work in the liner
notes.

There are two ways to order: directly from the distributor or from
Amazon.com.

To order from the distributor, Pi Recordings:

http://www.pirecordings.com/flash/main.html

To order from Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000068CZ8/qid%3D1027978498/sr%3D11-1/r

ef%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-0542581-3432913

The music may not be for everybody but I have enjoyed it quite a bit so far.
It is also not the ideal example to try to pick apart and analyze the
difference between the standard way of tuning the modern piano and the way I
have done now for 10 years. It does however, demonstrate that modern Jazz
does not really require Equal Temperament (ET) as so many people assume.

Below is the review from Amazon.com. Your comments and critiques are
welcome. The ordering information will be posted on my website soon.

<<Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
<A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/50717/102-0542581-3432913">Roscoe Mitchell</A>'s new Song for My Sister will surprise those who pigeonhole
the multi-reed player and flutist as a "free jazz" improviser and not much
more. A founding member of the <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/53155/102-0542581-3432913">Art Ensemble of Chicago</A> and the equally
influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Mitchell
is often associated with the kind of bombastic free jazz that the Art
Ensemble pioneered in the 1960s--but as the wonderfully varied Song for My
Sister proves, that's not a fair categorization of his broad composing and
improvising talents. Recorded with the Note Factory, Mitchell's nine- piece
double-trio ensemble (two bassists, two drummers, two pianists), Song for My
Sister opens with the lyrical title track, a swinging modal workout that
wouldn't sound out of place on John Coltrane's <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WK0U/102-0542581-3432913">Olé</A>. From there Mitchell dips
into several of his many musical personalities: "This," a beautiful
chamber-music piece originally set to one of e.e. cummings's poems that
utilizes Mitchell's bass and great bass recorders; the percussion-and-piano
"The Megaplexian," which echoes Indonesian gamelan music; and some thrilling
rides into free improvisation on "Sagitta" and "When the Whistle Blows." Song
for My Sister certainly doesn't fit into the neat categories that mark many
major-label jazz releases these days--a fact that both longtime and recent
fans of Mitchell's nearly 40-year career will find heartening. --Ezra Gale>>

Bill Bremmer RPT
Madison, Wisconsin
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