Blue Got Up by Jane Reynolds & Hans Sturm

Len Bukowski, Cadence Magazine

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Blue Got Up is based on a poem from the book Sounds by Wassily Kandinsky.

Shadows of Invisible Trees, written for a performance with the Synergy Dance Company, was inspired by Duke Ellington.

The Garden Behind Glass Walls comes from the Haiku:

Slender wild flowers

dance in the glass walled garden

where she hides her heart.

Patterns is an expression of the cyclical rhythms in nature.

Nicaragua: Songs in a Garden was named for a short story by Anais Nin: "The song slipped into the garden quietly.. The child could cry, not at a song, but with a premonition of things worth weeping for...."

Quasimodal was inspired by and written for Roscoe Mitchell's soprano saxophone.

Cruel Contradiction was also written for Synergy.

O-Zone was inspired by Ornette Coleman and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Who Knows When Silence Begins? just played itself one day.

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Jane Reynolds is a jazz pianist and composer in the Madison area who has collaborated extensively with vocalist Lynette Margulies and guitarist Roger Brotherhood. Since 1985 she has also produced the weekly jazz radio program "Jazz Sounds" on WORT-FM. Jane has taught keyboard improvisation at various music clinics, music theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and currently teaches piano, jazz improvisation, and theory in her private studio. She completed a comparitive study of the improvisational music of Albert Ayler, Roscoe Mitchell, and Cecil Taylor for her Ph.D., under the direction of Joan Wildman.

Double bassist Hans Sturm has performed as soloist, chamber, orchestral, jazz and

improvisational musician throughout Europe, China, Japan, Brazil, and the United States. Sturm received his doctorate from Northwestern University and is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of the String Department at Ball State University. Sturm has appeared with many artists across the spectrum of jazz music including Eddie Daniels, Phil Woods, Randy Brecker, Roscoe Mitchell, and others. A frequent performer of new music,Sturm has toured with 'Fireflight' (soprano, Japanese koto and bass koto, double bass, and

percussion) and 'Trinkle, Burkett, and Sturm' (trumpet, marimba and double bass) for more than fifteen years. As an orchestral bassist, he has served as principal bassist of several regional orchestras and toured Europe as a member of the American Sinfonietta.

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