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<p>If it's not too late, here are some remarkable concert events I saw during the past calendar year.</p>
<p><strong>John Zorn, Bill Laswell, Cyro Baptista and Ches Smith at the Anothology Film Archives. </strong>Maybe the thrill was to be sitting so closely to so many master musicians. They were playing a live soundtrack to the Harry Smith films that were being projected on the screen. We were in the second row, getting to see how the magic happens. Laswell was a center of gravity, making his electric bass guitar sound like a…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6055140/not-so-recent-concert-events">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>"Pale Afternoon," my third album of instrumental pop music, has now been pre-released!</p>
<p>What does pre-released mean! I don't know! But what I'm getting at is that the official "release" and promotion will be Jan. 12, 2016. In anticipation of that, the record has now been made available on <a title="Pale Afternoon on CD Baby" href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jimduffy2" target="_blank">CD Baby</a> and on <a title="Pale Afternoon on iTunes" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pale-afternoon/id1063925667?app=music&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4" target="_blank">iTunes</a>.</p>
<p>If you act now, you can be among the first to hear it.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>No one has ever made a perfect album, and no one ever will. "Revolver" is not perfect, and neither is "Sticky Fingers." You wouldn't want to change anything on "Highway 61 Revisited," not even Mike Bloomfield's out-fo-tune guitar on "Queen Jane Approximately," but that album has plenty of spots and gaps in it. "Forever Changes" is imperfect, and so is the first Cars album. Phil Spector never made a perfect album, and none of Jimi Hendrix's albums are perfect. Heck, not even "Kind of Blue" is perfect…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6055138/embracing-imperfection">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>One of the best music events I have seen this year was actually a film event. At a fundraiser for the <a href="http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/">Anthology Film Archives</a> on Second Avenue, resident composer John Zorn and a group of heavy hitters performed in front of a screen that showed short films of <a href="http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/">Harry Smith</a>. In the group were Bill Laswell on bass and both Ches Smith and Cyro Baptista on drums and percussion, Zorn on alto sax. Quite a group of heavyweights, and we were sitting in the second row, right on top of the band.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The films were…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6055137/recent-and-coming-live-music-events">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>"Pale Afternoon" will be the name of my next record, the third full-length collection of instrumental pop tunes. The album was recorded and mixed between the spring of 2012 and the fall of 2015, though it was done in relatively few sessions. I made it quickly, over a long period of time.</p>
<p>The record will have 11 original compositions in a style similar to that of the first two records, though I believe that style has developed and evolved. It's more harmonically adventurous, I believe, and the sound has a…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6055136/pale-afternoon">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>"Untitled No. 40 (2015)," by Brooklyn-based artist&nbsp;<a title="Linda Kamille Schmidt" href="http://lindakamilleschmidt.com/" target="_blank">Linda Kamille Schmidt.</a></p>
<p>It's flashe and graphite on mylar. And it will appear on the front cover of my next CD, which will be called "Pale Afternoon," and which will be released this calendar year on Three Dots Records.</p>
<p>This will be my third full-length release of instrumental pop tunes. "Pale Afternoon" was recorded, mixed and masteed from the spring of 2012 through the fall of 2015, though in relatively few studio sessions. "I made it very quickly, over…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6055135/updates-and-random-soundwaves">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Hello again. I'm glad to say that my third full-length album (I still call them albums) is in the home stretch. The tracking is done, now it's just a matter of adding the little touches and pixie dust.</p>
<p>Recording is just about the best thing to do. You set up the conditions to create a controlled environment, you book the studio, gather the musicians, get everyone settled in the right place, get the microphone placement just right. You want to have the right amount of preparation (enough, and not too…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6055134/more-random-notes-spring-2015">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p><strong>Mitra Sumara</strong>, the band that plays pre-revolutionary Persian pop of the 1960s and '70s, will perform two shows on the afternoon of <strong>Saturday, March 7, at 1 and 4 p.m. at the Smithsonian Institute, Freer Gallery Meyer Auditorium</strong>, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, D.C.&nbsp;The concerts will be part of a Nowruz celebration - the Persian new year.</p>
<p>We will be a five-piece band that day: Yvette Perez on vocals, singing these vintage pop tunes in the original Farsi, Peter Zummo on trombone, Bill Ruyle on hammer…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6055133/mitra-sumara-saturday-march-7-at-smithsonian-institute">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Hello again, if you are out there.</p>
<p>Yes, it has been a crazy long time. Lots of changes, new job, new schedule, made a trip out west.</p>
<p>I am still Jim, and I am still making music. This every evening, a tracking session for the as-yet-untitled Opus No. 3. This will be the final tracking session for this project, and I hope to have it to you soon.</p>
<p>Take care.</p>

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<p>Hi, since I'm not on any social media, and since I have never sent a text message or a Tweet or owned a cell-phone, I am on the "information dirt road." (I have also never owned a camera or taken a photograph, except when strangers and tourists have asked me to.) So thanks to you for finding me and stopping by. I realize that you are meeting me more than halfway.</p>
<p>Lately I'm busy composing the last few tunes for the as-yet-untitled Opus No. 3, which will be another collection of instrumental tunes, on…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6055131/low-tech-notes">Read more</a></span></div>
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