Honshirabe 本調 2.9 Bass Shakuhachi 尺八 Cornelius Boots - Natural Zen Honkyoku 本曲 Earlham College 地無し尺八

Earlham College in Richmond, IN on April 12, 2023
Played on a 2.9 bass shakuhachi ("Taimu" made by Ken Mujitsu LaCosse)
Concert curated by Dr. Dyron Dabney and presented by the Institute for Education on Japan

This was a special concert that happened to take place right in the midst of a large semi-apocalyptic toxic fire at an industrial recycling facility that was 1.1 miles from this college. Fortunately, my breath angels and the gods of the winds allowed the air around the college to stay clear for the entire day of my visit, during which I did two guest lecture-presentations and a robust evening concert program. Thank you Dyron for conceiving of and seeing this event through and also to Joe, Keith, Addison and Knoll at the college -- and also to Leighanne at Seldom Scene Bed & Breakfast whose home was not only refreshingly comfortable, but also clear for breathing for my two night stay, A breathing bamboo miracle all around.

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Black Earth Shakuhachi School
Traditional Zen Shakuhachi Flute Practice and nature meditation merges with deeper musicianship.
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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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