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"IMAGINATION IS THE LIBERTY OF THE MIND."
Begin with a sound - a rhythm - just one pitch - at the door to our imagination. The sound opens this door, through which we discover the liberty of the mind of a musical artist - Jorge Sylvester. The music unfolds a journey of artistic imagination through a great planetary crossroads and crucible
- THE CARIBBEAN. By: Ramsey Ameen
DIZZY BIRD Dedicated to Jorge Sylvester
By: Nora McCarthy ©2004
The song is only an echo. The song is only an echo. Lost in translation found through sound. Lost Then Found Translating Through Sound The song is only an echo. The song is only an echo.
The Dizziest Bird I ever heard was a rendition from a Low A musician, he was riffin’ on a bebop schism he had incredible vision and some way-out intonation he was playing lines in combinations The way he heard them while he was blowin’ he was composin’ in the moment, in the footsteps, of the masters that came before him he was swimmin’ in a sea of new concepts giving birth to ideas that were so easily flowin’ from his horn to his captivated audience creatively doing his thing way - out beyond main stream limits further out further out past ancesstral PRE - cedants setting a new standard of procedure for the so-called Jazz musician.
Subsequential theories expounding, expressing, notwithstanding naysaying audiophiles he was coming out of tradition, man like a crazy musical mathematician juxtaposing the position of the rhythms like intervallic equations experimenting with motifs and mutations of the form, weaving a collage of colorful magical potions, like no-one before, a hybrid of two geniuses and something more, he was a DizzyBird, for sure.
Making historical future with waving gestures of harmolodic melodies reaching in and out of atonal eccentricities, (X sent Tris a Dees) boppacaribbean off the four walls simultaneously strickly speaking in the tongues of the Diaspora dialectica in the many African languages that echoed back to his origins, it was this song I heard A progeny of the The Diz and The Bird’s Anthropology.
The song is only an echo. The song is only an echo. Lost in translation found through sound. Lost Then Found Translating Through Sound The song is only an echo. The song is only an echo.
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DIZZY BIRD !
COMPOSITION: Small dream in Red by Jorge Sylvester
Poem by Nora McCarthy
Perform on November 17, 2009 @ Local 269 -
Voice and Alto Sax Duo:
"A Small Dream in Red "
Movement in Motion based on the Principle of Sound and Colors !