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Dignity of Labour

The Dignity of Labour -it's really your only hope!

About Me

The Dignity of Labour began with a special concert for my father and brother, in town for a visit in 2002. Then as now, the idea was to bridge writte charts and free improvisation, to generate strongly tonal ideas without a chordal instrument, and to explore amusing theatrical and vocal possibilities. I have had the great fortune to work with some of the very finest musicians, including (past, present, and near future) Christine Duncan, Glen Hall, Jean Martin, Lina Alemanno, Gordon Allan, Ronda Rindone, Scott Thomson, Parmela Attarilwala, Sundar Viswanathan, Joseph Sorbara, Nick Fraser, Rob Clutton, Felicity Williams, and Peter Lonergan.Three of the cuts sample a concert on May 22, 2005, at the Distillery Festival in Toronto. Accolade is a feature for the knockout trumpet playing of Lina Alemanno. Rock Island Line and Royal Garden Blues are examples of what I call 'remembered music'; pieces from vanished traditions reexamined from what we can recall, inventing and filling in with our own experience what we cannot. The final piece is a MIDI file of a recent blues, written for some old friends.

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Member Since: 5/27/2006
Band Website: members.sibeliusmusic.com/mmorse
Influences: Thelonious Monk, Charles Ives, Steely Dan, Bill Evans, Cecil Taylor, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Bobbie Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, Billie McCoy, McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane, Franz Kafka, Myk Freedman, Béla Bartók, Ravi Shankar, Glen Hall, Carla Bley, Paul Bley, Beethoven, Haydn, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Eric Hughes, the Koutev Ensemble, Barnyard Drama, Gil Evans, Ellington/Strayhorn, Paul Chambers, Sonny Rollins, Steve Hall, Richard Wagner, Scott Thomson, Claude Debussy, Alban Berg, Tim & Molly, the Marx Brothers, Gary Peacock, Steve Swallow, Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery, James Brown, Georg Trakl, Rahsaan, Webern, Lennon/McCartney, Rob Clutton, Jason Hammer, Dave Chokroun, Fred Astaire, Bill Robinson, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Jimi Hendrix, Carmen McRae, W.C. Fields, Rainer Maria Rilke, David Oistrakh, Gershwin, Joe Sorbara, Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, Terry King, Prokofiev, all the great improvisers in Toronto, Leadbelly, Stephen Blum, Claude Ranger, Edward Lear, Jane Fair, Preston Sturges, Dostoevsky, Lee Konitz, Lennie Tristano, Cannonball Adderley, Raymond Lukens, Bob Dorough, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bill Holman, Bach, Venda tshikona, Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, Stefan Wolpe, Ali Akhbar Khan, Percy Heath, Martin Heidegger, Spike Jones, Bud Powell, Bix Beiderbecke, Jay Anthony Gach, Jane Gardner, Bob Mover, the Avataar Collective, Zero Seven, Clifford Brown, the Bird and the Bee, Ligeti, Giorgio Agamben, Mark Evan Bonds, Kant, Wittgenstein, Zen, Paul Klee, Brecht
Sounds Like: klezmer played by kurdish mountain folk; kurdish folk music played by bartok; bartok played by jazz musicians; jazz played by klezmers
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