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Bebop Cookbook | Charlie Parker Bebop Blues Improvisation Etude No. 1

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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ---Charlie Parker Charlie Parker Bebop Blues Improvisation Etude No. 1 *NOTE: This etude is a short Bebop improvisational study of the twelve-bar blues based on materials presented in “Charlie Parker: The Analytical Study of Twenty-Two Performance Versions of Now's The Time”. The etude’s range and pitch register are...

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Bell Tree | Missouri Botanical Garden

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The Bell Tree | Missouri Botanical Garden | St. Louis, MO | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The Bell Tree Sculpture in the Missouri Botanical Garden was pretty popular. While waiting patiently in the line mostly consisted of giggly five-year-olds and their parents to play with the sculpture, I, for some reasons, began to gleefully hum Bob Dylan’s “All I Really Want to Do” in my nearly-sunburned head. I...

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Des Moines Botanical Center | Des Moines, Iowa

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After having a robust cup of double-shot espresso in a café located in the trendy East Village district near the Iowa State Capitol, I unhurriedly drove toward the Des Moines Botanical Center with my slow mind tagged along like a sleepy monitor lizard with no nametag. The laid-back street scenes of Des Moines, accompanied by Tomaso Albinoni’s Adagio in G minor for Strings and Organ in my car’s stereo system,...

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Kings Creek | Konza Prairie

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Making some field recordings of Kings Creek near Hokanson Homestead in Konza Prairie was both mentally and physically therapeutic. The stream benevolently bequeathed a serene luminosity of a quiet song and the reflection of gorgeous afternoon sunlight. I was content and still, minus my understandable hungriness after a long day of travel, silently reciting Australian poet Henry Lawson’s The Song And The Sigh as a pre-snack-time tribute to a perfect...

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Aura

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Aura II | excerpt | 2010 | Jen-Kuang Chang I suddenly woke up in the middle of a very dark and cagey night. Scared. After a cold, bushed February stuffed with several gigantic snowstorms and oh-one-more-bonus-gigantically-gigantic-snowstorm-just-for-you, the sound of midnight rain seemed incomprehensibly monstrous to me. I took an instant shower, fed Tuck & Patti’s scrumptious album Tears of Joy to my auditory hungriness, and began to grill asparaguses with...

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Current II

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Current II | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang Morning. Wretchedly cloudy. Archiving Current series. Guillermo espresso drink. three cups. Amano artisan chocolate Dos Rios. Two and half bites. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain. Yann Tiersen’s music in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain. Audrey Tautou waitressing in The Two Windmills with Yann Tiersen’s music in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain. Life is suddenly...

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