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Nu Words - Live in Brookline

by Richie Barshay, Kevin Harris, Tracy Einstein

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1.
Bye Ya (Thelonious Monk) 05:54
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2.
Planet (Catherine Pierce) 02:52
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3.
A Climate of Change / intro 01:22
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4.
A Climate of Change (George the Poet) 04:30
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5.
Untitled (Tom Chivers) 04:28
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6.
The Peace of Wild Things (Wendell Berry) 05:59
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I Mean You (Thelonious Monk) 05:48
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8.
The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin) 02:32
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9.
drum solo 02:21
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10.
Image of Kindness (Esma’il Kho’l) / The Fish (Mary Oliver) 05:07
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Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise (Romberg & Hammerstein) 04:34
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about

One August evening in 2019 we came together on a small stage in Cypress Park. Our intention was to share a musical experiment with the laid-back and curious crowd gathered on the sprawling lawn. Tracy and I had chosen poetry from a collection on climate change awareness, and scribbled out an order with some musical ideas as a starting point.

Kevin and Richie began making music in Boston and NY jazz venues almost a decade earlier. The trio with Tracy began developing in 2018 in Israel, while performing and leading improvisation workshops with high school students in the Internal Compass project, led by bassist Ehud Ettun.

What followed from the first downbeat became an exploratory gathering to share with the world...

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released September 1, 2020

Kevin Harris, piano
Tracy Einstein, voice
Richie Barshay, percussion

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Richie Barshay Northampton, Massachusetts

“Homework introduces a major rhythm voice on the rise” says Downbeat magazine, and The Guardian (UK) praises “the arrival of a major innovator who also knows how to have fun.”
On tour and recordings with Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Esperanza Spalding, Lee Konitz, The Klezmatics, Fred Hersch, Kenny Werner, Natalie Merchant among others. ... more

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