Felino A. Soriano and Ivar Antonsen

This evening Felino A. Soriano enters the 1940s contest, drawing our attention to Ivar Antonsen, a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer who was born in 1946.  People have sent me a diverse array of tributes to musicians this summer.  Some are very well known in the United States; others are not.  I hope that you will enjoy the variety!

Conversational whisper

                                   --after Ivar Antonsen (b. 1946)

  Where it was we’ve

                      become,

 more so an adaptation

     of age and what

 age in theory represents

                   within the

   behavior of our current

        manifestations.  Said

     of what we’ve forgotten,

  each mirror, when unobstructed

        by thick, fingering fog will

                            always

  reveal what the body bends

 toward:     :frequent spatial

    needs to determine fractions’

                        positional

      music, asymmetrical, altruistic with

   widened hands of a welcoming

                                 disposition--

__________

   warmth is what relocates oddities of noon’s winter holdings;

 elongated lines, tired strands of silken silence

     continue oscillating speech though

   when heat becomes apparition

                                 death

       is the grayed gradation crawl

   -ing to adhere to bone’s piano solo

                                   prelude

        to ash

__________

Let's star with Antonsen's piano duet with Andy LaVerne "Double Circle":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHUjjdcSKQE

"NY Snapshot" adds tenor sax, bass, and drums to the piano:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFNh58msw3g

A more recent piece, "Tune for Trio," removes the tenor sax but keeps the bass and drums:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emq--wUjBC4

I'll finish with "Stepping Stones," a duet with Vigleik Storaas, another Norwegian pianist:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZnoqyB_X8g

Enjoy!