Audio from the first live performance of the trio OHO of 2021. The song is Ring In The Rightness, which appears on the Gazebo album, recorded live at Elk Run Vineyards, Mt Airy, MD in July 2021. A beautiful day, a wonderful audience, a welcoming venue and some excellent wine.
". . . Surrounded by a force making all things new. You are safe. You are whole. Nothing goes askew . . . "
". . . This miry Slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore is it called the Slough of Despond: for still as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts . . ."
". . . Genuine understanding seems to be the exception rather than the norm in everyday communication. We speak at each other, or past each other. We speak different conceptual languages, hold different values, embody different ways of seeing the world . . . Much of the time, we're not even listening to each other at all. The dialogue is a monologue. We fire salvos of information across the Internet, or shoot each other text messages, or blog or Twitter about ourselves. But is anyone paying attention? And if they are, do they catch our drift? . . . The trouble with much of what passes for communication today is that it's all crosstalk. It's a din, not a dialogue. . ."
. . . is now repaired and back online. Please drop me a line if you see (or don't see) anything out of order. If I've learned one thing from the past week about computer technology, it's that there really are NO experts in the field.
A live version of IMPRESSIVE (from the album Another Shot), one of my John Coltrane-inspired tunes, performed for you live from my living room, apparently in a mirror! It was, soon after posting, commented that this Kawai baby grand appears to be a 'left-handed' model.