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Creative Reasoning

/ by diggs duke

[Musician(s)] / [“Song”] / [Album (year)] / [Writer] / [modifications]

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Chico Freeman

/ “At A Glance” / Tradition In Transition (1982) / Clyde
Criner / [reversed, chopped & layered]

“Phase Test” / Stereo Review's Stereo Test Record (1969) / [sped up & layered]
Paul Robeson

Preface

/ “Speech” / At the Peace Arch Park (1953) / [reversed]

Billy Eckstine Orchestra / “If That's The Way You Feel” / 1945 / Eckstine / [excerpt]

The words on the next page are a

“Trumpeter Swan” / Field Guide to Western Bird Songs (1962) / [excerpt]

collage of writings, lifted from the

Yusef Lateef / “Indefinite Expansion” / Nocturnes (1989) / Yusef Lateef

notes of the albums that are listed

Willie Ruff / “Steal Away” / Solo French Horn (1982) / Spiritual
“Solo Whale” / Songs of the Humpback Whale (1970)
Bilal / “Soul Sista” / 12” Single (2001) / B.Oliver / [vocal excerpt]

“Solo Whale” / Songs of the Humpback Whale (1970)
Chico Freeman / “Two Over One” / Beyond the Rain (1977) / Abrams / [slowed]
Detroit Symphony Orchestra /

“Visions of Ishwara” / Talib Rasul Hakim /

College Music Society – Black Composer Series (1986)

Detroit Symphony Orch.

/ “Sonata for Cello & Piano” / David Baker /

C.M.S. – Black Composer Series (1986)

“Solo Whale” / Songs of the Humpback Whale (1970)
Jamal Moore & Organix Trio

/ “Ancestral Communion” / Ancestral

Communion (2015)

/ Moore

Don Shirley / “Everytime I Feel The Spirit” / Piano Arrangements of
Famous Spirituals (1960) / Spiritual / [duplicated, staggered]

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on this page.
The animals are not credited
because their individual names
are unknown to us. Often, music
transcends even the musician's
creative reasoning.

The transitional music of today will be the
tradition of tomorrow. The process is a
continuous and infinite one – just like
the music.1

The loudest sounds
are followed by a series of echoes
from the surface and the bottom.2

In the night,
Revealed in sound
Event in contemplation
Without fixed or specified limits
Development of expression, in contracted form
INDEFINITE EXPANSION, serving the immaterial self.3

The artistic impact that has kept it alive
is its truthfulness and simplicity4
divine qualities manifested through5
a vibrational journey into the realm of the ancestors
for guidance through life's trials and tribulations6

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Chico Freeman, Tradition In Transition, Elektra Records 1982
Songs of the Humpback Whale, Capitol Records 1970
Yusef Lateef, Nocturnes, Atlantic Records 1989
Don Shirley, Piano Arrangements of Famous Spirituals, Cadence Recods 1960
Talib Rasul Hakim, The College Music Society – Black Composers Series, CBS Records 1986
Jamal R. Moore, Ancestral Communion, Self-Released 2015