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| Featured flute recording James Newton - Echo Canyon
This is rapidly becoming my favorite jazzy flute album. The album is entirely unaccompanied flute, improvised and recorded in a remote canyon in Arizona. The music has a quiet meditative feel to it and the sounds of nature in the background are audible at differing levels on all the tracks. Without a backing band, Newton's music is able to move freely wherever he feels it should take him, so don't expect swing. It's a bit more avant-jazz meets Debussy. The liner notes with the description of just what was involved in doing this location recording are great fun. |
May 23rd marked my debut on flute in public performance with Dream in Color, where I played a small amount of flute at the beginning of one of our originals, "New Years Eve," before returning to bass for the rest of the song. It was, at best a passable performance, but a nice milestone. I'd like to integrate some flute more fully into some subsequent pieces, although none of my own writing has yet been conducive to the use of the flute.