Have a listen to the final movement of Jason Moran’s Cane: “Natchatoches to New York.” This wonderful piece will be on our upcoming album — Terra Incognita — due out on August 24!
Notes from Jason:
My commission, “Cane”, for Imani Winds will be a 4 movement piece that is inspired by the landscape and sounds Cane River, Louisiana. Cane River runs through the a northern town, Natchitoches, that my ancestors made home dating back to the early 1700s. I am interested in the way that multiple periods are brought together within the same time line, and how they interact not only aesthetically… but based on the contextual factors in which the works were written… setting up historical antipodes that swim towards conflict, then arrive at the possibility of resolution.
