Shabaka & Cornelius Boots Improv #2 w/ Austin Williamson 尺八Shakuhachi, Bamboo Flute, Drums in Philly

April 22, 2024 at the Ars Nova Workshop performance at
Solar Myth Philadelphia, PA
Big Bamboos in dialogue with two natural flute idealogues plus drummer Austin Williamson,
in my book, the best thing you can do is add in a drummer like Austin into the mix!!
Part 2 to the Improv #1 from the night before:
   • Shabaka & Cornelius Boots 尺八 Shakuhac...  

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Other Duo Improvs over the years:
w/ Mark Deutsch on Bazantar -    • Taimu (bass) Shakuhachi & Bazantar: D...  
w/ Nils Frykdahl on flute -    • Cornelius Boots & Nils Frykdahl - Bam...  
w/ Su Terry on shakuhachi -    • Shakuhachi Duo Improvisation #1 - Su ...  
w/ Beth Custer on alto clarinet -    • Cornelius Boots & Beth Custer - Alto ...  
w/ Stephen Kent on didgeridoo -    • Cornelius Boots & Stephen Kent - Didg...  
w/ Sleepytime Gorilla Museum -    • Shakuhachi w/ Sleepytime Gorilla Muse...  

Avant-garde Nature Music & Woodwind Animism. Breath-powered and 100% plant-based.

Cornelius Boots is a certified grandmaster of Zen shakuhachi, a renegade classical composer and lifelong woodwind performance visionary-pioneer. Long bio below.

Woodwind Nature -- Elemental Musicianship
https://corneliusboots.com/

Black Earth Shakuhachi School
Traditional Zen Shakuhachi Flute Practice and nature meditation merges with deeper musicianship.
Nature Hymns on Big Bamboo.
Lessons and info: http://shakuhachilessons.com/
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LONG BIO:
Founder/composer of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, Cornelius Boots has forged his own eclectic style as a professional woodwind performer since 1989. A licensed shakuhachi grandmaster (dai shihan), prize-winning composer and former bass clarinet performance innovator, he is actively merging the threads of Watazumido, Eric Dolphy and Son House on jinashi (all-natural) and Taimu (bass) shakuhachi.

Boots has generated and released an entire body of new songs and compositions for these large, raw and rare bamboo flutes of Japanese Zen Buddhist origin: mukyoku (27 pieces for Taimu) and Shakuhachi Unleashed (48 virtuosic songs of rock, Zen, blues, metal and more). In 2018, he was a finalist in the World Shakuhachi Competition, a featured performer for Sony PlayStation’s E3 press conference (LA) and a featured performer/lecturer at both the World Bamboo Congress (Xalapa, Mexico) and the World Shakuhachi Festival (London).

A three-time graduate of the renowned Jacobs School of Music (BM Classical Clarinet ’97, BS Audio Recording ’97, MM Jazz Studies ’99), Boots’ training and work experience is deep and diverse: jazz saxophonist, swing clarinetist, symphony bass clarinetist, funk and progressive rock bandleader and founder/composer of the world’s only composing bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles. With his latest three albums, the Shakuhachi Unleashed series—Holy Flute (2017), Bamboo Rising (2018), and Sacred Root (2019)—Cornelius continues to develop “bamboo gospel,” a robust, cross-cultural solo style utilizing rare breath-defying techniques and maximum polystylistic prowess.

A Performer’s Certificate Awardee from David N. Baker’s seminal Jazz Studies program at Indiana University, Cornelius is the first student of Grandmaster Michael Chikuzen Gould to have earned a Shihan (master teaching license) in 2013 and was given the shakuhachi name 深禅 "Shinzen" (depth Zen or deep Zen). In 2022, he was awarded a Dai Shihan (grandmaster) certificate in recognition of his dedication and contribution to the art and practice of shakuhachi. In addition to teaching, Cornelius has recorded and written, in shakuhachi calligraphic notation, a series of 27 etudes (mukyoku) for Taimu shakuhachi. First-prize winner of the 2013 International Clarinet Composition Competition, Boots has also received commissions and awards from Chamber Music America, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Areon Flutes, International Songwriting Competition and Meet the Composer.
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Woodwind Nature Music Video:
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深禅 (Shinzen)