Jazz Studies faculty colleagues Ted Poor and Cuong Vu debut new songs by Poor as well as music from his recent Impulse Records release You Already Know in this duo performance live-streamed from the UW’s Meany Hall. With live video projections by New York City-based visual artist Abigail Portner. A brief question-and-answer session follows the performance.
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Program Detail
The Jazz Studies colleagues’ immersive show features the beguiling projections of visual artist Abigail Portner covering the entire Meany main stage. The duo performs select tracks from Poor’s debut album You Already Know (New Deal/Impulse!) as well as some unreleased songs.
Released in February, the 9-track album produced by Blake Mills features saxophonist Andrew D’Angelo, indie folk-rocker Andrew Bird, and multi-instrumentalist Rob Moose.
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Praise for You Already Know
Poor’s minimalist yet avant-garde approach on You Already Know attracts a diverse audience. “To Rome” features indie fan-favorite Andrew Bird, with whom Poor records and tours (alongside Madison Cunningham, who also featured Poor on her Verve Forecast debut Who Are You Now).“Only You”expands upon a mantra-like motif which Poor feels provides “form and emotion that grows out of that.” “New Wonder”' isan improvisational piece for which Poor shadowed Andrew D’Angelo’s sax melody on the piano in Sound City Studio’s fabled echo chamber. When the close mic-ed piano sound was muted it left what Poor calls a “shimmery halo” of reverb and space.The hypnotizing track beautifully reflects the improvisational nature of the album. Although it seems as if You Already Knowis on a divergent path from the folk-ish artists and albums Poor has played on and supported, he doesn’t exactly see it that way. Poor unironically believes that it’s still a folk album…not in the sense of the genre classification, but “more the idea of music as oral tradition—music as song.”