In this episode of American Highways, pianist Guy Livingston brings us more music by the amazing Eighth Blackbird Ensemble. A year after my interview with them at the Doelen concert hall in Rotterdam, here are additional highlights of their repertoire: Music by Jacob (JC) Cooper, Ted Hearne, Robert Honstein, and Andrew Norman.

The program closes out with an historical recording of the (virtually unknown) Sonata for Piano and Percussion by Peggy Glanville-Hicks, from an Other Minds CD (not Eighth Blackbird though – they weren’t born yet!)

AMERICAN HIGHWAYS #102

Theme Music:

Jan Jeroen (J.J.) Spijkervet & Immersive Sound

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Sounds About Right

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Cast

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JC

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Ted Hearne

By-By Huey

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Robert Honstein

Conduit –

1. Touch

2. Pulse

3. Send

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Andrew Norman

Mine, Mime, Meme

Eighth Blackbird

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Peggy Glanville-Hicks

Sonata for Piano and Percussion:

1. Allegro

2. Lento sombreroso

3. Presto

Carlo Bussotti, Carlos Surinach, New York Percussion Group

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Closing tune:

David King

Super America

The Bad Plus

E1 Records: EOM-CD-2112

 

More info? Listen to the interview I did with the ensemble about a year ago, at the Doelen Theater in Rotterdam.