23 April 2008, #6. "Linda Gradstein" - 5m43s

After I play a particularly long, lush, and dense improv like "Margot Adler," I usually begin the next one sparsely and simply, as in this piece. It is light, simple, unaggressive, and unambitious. It is a little bumpy (by design - I didn't want it to be smooth and soothing), but not jagged. The blues progression provides even more predictability.

Finally at 4:30 it begins to build, but not in drama, only in rambunctiousness, ending energetically.

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Recorded on April 23rd, 2008, at Peace Church of the Brethren, in Portland, OR, with a Zoom H4 Digital Recorder. Edited with Audacity music software.