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Joe Morris ARCADE

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This music was recorded in one afternoon June 25, 2014 in Brown Hall at New England Conservatory. It was conducted as a kind of open house. I invited the musicians to come and play and some arrived early and stayed, some came played and left, and others arrived later. The music here is everything we played that day—over 3 hours of music. It documents a particularly strong group of young musicians I worked with during the previous months and years. One, cellist Miriam Felix was in town visiting from Barcelona, Spain. The pianist Agusti Fernandez introduced us there the previous year and we recorded and performed together. Like a number of the players on this recording she also performed with me earlier that month during my residency at The Stone in New York.

ARCADE is a fitting title for this recording as it was the name of the multi-city concert series I organized beginning in 2014. The musicians on this were all part of that. Performances were held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut, New York, New York, and a few other places around New England. The final season of the series IMPROVISATIONS at Real Art Ways in Hartford was a part of the ARCADE series and it featured many of these musicians on this recoding on a monthly concert playing with me and my partner in the series trumpeter multi-instrumentalist Stephen Haynes. ARCADE also started the annual one-day festival SPECTACLE which ran for 5 years at Real Art Ways and featured emerging improvising musicians with established ones in ad-hoc groupings. This recording is like a one-day version of the ARCADE series.

All of these incredible musicians seem limitless in their creativity to me. Their playing on this recording is stunning, vivid, energetic, masterful and daring. They are part of an amazing community of young improvising musicians that I have had the great good fortune to work with since joining the faculty at New England Conservatory in 2000. While they all show tremendous skill and creativity in this idiom it is only one of the many ways they play music. That point alone makes them and their generation unique in the unfolding history of Free Music.

You might wonder why it took so long for me to release this. I engineered this and played guitar on it. It was a very busy day. Unfortunately some levels were bad and getting a good mix was difficult. Fortunately the master engineer and my very good friend Jamie Saft applied his expertise to the problem and made this incredible mix that highlights all of the dynamics of the players and the clarity of beautiful Brown Hall. He also tweeked my less-than-perfect mic placement on a couple of tracks and brought out sounds that were otherwise lost. The results are rich and warm. They sit the listener in the room close to the musicians as we create the music together. The balances work the same way, in some cases there is a bit of distance just as there would be in a live situation.

On behalf of all of us involved, thank you for listening.

Joe Morris
April 2020

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released April 25, 2020

Joe Morris-guitar, Brad Barrett-bass, Andria Nicodemou-vibraphone and marimba, Miriam Felix-cello, Daniel Pencer-tenor saxophone, clarinet, Will Bridges-alto saxophone, Zoe Christiansen-clarinet, Jason Belcher-valve trombone, Nick Neuberg-percussion, Joelle Simone Wagner-bassoon, Matthew Delligatti-guitar, Pat Keen-bass

Produced by Joe Morris
Recorded in Brown Hall at New England Conservatory of Music Boston, MA June 25, 2014. Engineered by Joe Morris
Mixed by Jamie Saft at Potterville International Sound Kerhonkson, NY April 2020
Photo by Joe Morris
Layout by Anne Marcotty
all tracks riti publishing ASCAP P&C 2020

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