Reed Wallsmith (alto saxophone), Chris Mosley (guitar), Tim DuRoche (drums) perform "A Nicaragua" (Wallsmith, comp.). Recorded July 2009, Portland, OR

A Nicaragua

Meeting with Frank Gratkowski (clarinet, saxophone), Gust Burns (piano), Tim DuRoche (drums, objects, little instruments). Recorded at Jack Straw Productions, Seattle by Doug Haire, October 2003. Unreleased session. 

Number Four

This is from a Sunday afternoon outing at the Way Post in Portland in 2007. Not terribly good quality, but the momentum is lovely—piano (Thollem McDonas) and drums (Tim DuRoche) duo.  I think there were three people in the audience. 

Thollem McDonas & Tim DuRoche @ WayPost

“a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance,” is a work for voice/tambura and 40" wind gong built around an exploration of resonance, decay, and cycle/pulse  by  jazz musician-composer Tim DuRoche (percussion) and Pandit Pran Nath disciple Michael Stirling (vocals/tambura). 

Engaging spacious use of overtone, sustain and circumambience, the work draws sonic inspiration from Blaise Pascal's quote,  “Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere but whose circumference is nowhere" and  Jorge Luis Borges' consideration of Pascal’s Sphere:  "It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors."
 
"I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance. At first I thought it was revolving; then I realised that this movement was an illusion created by the dizzying world it bounded"
—Jorge Luis Borges 

Recorded May 2011 at Performance Works NW

A small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance

Abide with Me - Thelonious Monk MONK’S MUSIC (Riverside, 1957)
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen/Down by the Riverside - David Murray SPIRITUALS (DIW, 1990)
Shine On Me - Jaki Byard JAKI BYARD EXPERIENCE (Prestige, 1968)
Prayer - David S. Ware BIRTH OF A BEING (hat HUT, 1979)
Lift Every Voice and Sing - Richard Davis THE BASSIST: HOMAGE TO DIVERSITY (Palmetto, 2001)
Just a Closer Walk With Thee -Joe McPhee’s Bluette IN THE SPIRIT (CIMP, 1999)
Deep River-David Murray DEEP RIVER (DIW, 1989) 
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Sun Ra SOLO PIANO, vol. 1 (Improvising Artists, 1977)
There Is a Balm in Gilead Archie Shepp BLASE (BYG Records, 1969)
Crucifixion-David Murray SPIRITUALS (DIW, 1990)
There is A Balm in Gilead -William Parker Trio PAINTERʼS SPRING (Thirsty Ear, 2000)
Goin’ Home Albert Ayler GOINʼ HOME (Black Lion, rec. 1964)

Radio Free Corona  Spirituals And The New Thing

Crockett Johnson's classic children's bedtime story with slow-jam

Harold And The Purple Crayon Nightime Mix

Saxophone – George Cartwright
Piano/Composition - Carei Thomas
Baritone Horn – Steve Sandberg 
Bass – Brock Thorson 
Drums – Tim DuRoche

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