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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 25

Stunning

John Zorn’s drawings, sketches, notebooks, scores, pieces, esoteric wisdom and insight.

#JohnZorn
#HermeticCartography
#thedrawingcenter
#Alchemist

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 21

Friday morning breath…

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 20

#TBT The #SpikeOrchestra at the Purcell Rooms as part of the #PRSFoundation #newmusicbiennial back in 2019 playing my piece The Pink Shagpile Carpet Story AKA The King of Spank love these cats, love this music. I wrote a bunch of music that year that became our 2020 #Tzadik album #SplinteredStories

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 15

Early start. Off to do a workshop outside of London. There isn’t enough coffee and the white in my beard seems greater than it did yesterday.

#jazz
#jazzeducation
#improvisation
#composer
#trumpetplayer

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 14

Chart Maps for 4 recent new works for big band.
All inspired by birds, I meet along the way.

#bigband
#composition
#newbigbandmusic
#bigbandarranging
#contemporarybigband
#newmusic

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 13

youtu.be/ZX4ruSlePnE?...

Trasfrontera núm. 14 - Sam Eastmond’s Gulgoleth

YouTube video by Música UNAM

youtu.be

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 13

#TBT #GULGOLETH rehearsing for our Abbey Road session in 2020, with this Baritone Guitar feature about a ceramic drag penguin.
Huge love for these awesome cats.

#composer
#composition
#AbbeyRoadSession
#MossFreed
#ElliotGalvin
#OttoWillberg
#JayDavis

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 12

I remember I used to have a tape of a live broadcast in which the DJ introduced Count Basie as ‘The man who gets more music from less* notes than anyone else’

I just saw a video of a pianist who gets less music from more notes than anyone else.

*sic

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 12

Relentless groove + blowing + transition
sight-reading new music
Embrace the process.

#composersworkshopbigband
#bigband
#composition
#newmusic
#process
#InTheShed
#Burt&Velma
#PijinStrut

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 11

Stretching out, feeling our way through a new one…
#composersworkshopbigband
#bigband
#composition
#newmusic
#thegreenbergparade

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 10

Fun day playing some new music with some lovely people…

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 9

Went out and did an awesome rehearsal with some hip young punks and the ever groove full Myra Brownbridge then came home and made this bangin’ lentil and bean stew. (Vegan, low fat, low carb etc)

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 9

Loading up my iPod for the morning commute
Thanks to OLJF for the discs

#MasahikoTogashi
#SteveLacy

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 8

Three new pieces for Monday’s composers workshop big band.

#composition
#bigband
#contemporarybigband
#newbigbandmusic
#bigbandwriting
#composersworkshop
#jazzorchestra
#composition
#newmusic
#composer
#arranger

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 7

Shed…

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 7

We all deal with things differently, my wife copes with the pigeons crapulously fluttering around our balcony, & smugly strutting around by running out shouting obscenities at them enraged, railing Canute-like against their feigned innocence.
I on the other hand have turned to a different catharsis

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 7

We all deal with things differently, my wife copes with the pigeons crapulously fluttering around our balcony, & smugly strutting around by running out shouting obscenities at them enraged, railing Canute-like against their feigned innocence.
I on the other hand have turned to a different catharsis

Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 6

Here’s a fun one; half a minute of Adam Merrell blowing on my arrangement of John Zorn’s GEVURAH in rehearsal with NYJO back in 2021

#JohnZorn
#Masada
#RJC
#BigBand
#BigBandMasada
#NYJO
#JazzEducation
#YouthBigBand
#MusicEducation

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 6

Preparing for workshops, thinking, playing, printing, organising.

#MusicEducation
#YouthMusic
#YouthBigBand
#Improvisation
#JazzEducation

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 6

Preparing for workshops, thinking, playing, printing, organising.

#MusicEducation
#YouthMusic
#YouthBigBand
#Improvisation
#JazzEducation

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 6

Very kind of you 🙇🏻‍♂️

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 6

Discography as a leader

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 5

Current state of my desk. Some deep work to do today after some time in the shed.
Of note are the 15 discs an old dear friend sent me because they wanted me to hear them. Some rare tracks and deep cuts.

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 4

John Zorn’s Bagatelles

Vol 16

No. 256

#JohnZorn
#JohnZornsBagatelles
#TheBagatellesOfJohnZorn
#Bagatelles
#Zorn
#Tzadik

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Sam Eastmond @sameastmond.bsky.social · Mar 4

Gave my horn a rub.
It arrived with a deep red patina and I fell in love with the whole package instantly so didn’t change a thing.
Got curious.

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