Work
Soul food
for jazz ensemble
About
“This wonderful poem plays with yin and yang, and references music explicitly. Despite all the paradoxes, it's nourishing stuff: I tried to keep that feeling alive while playing around with the rhythm and form of the piece. It makes for a pretty fun workout…” - composer
Commissioned note
Commissioned by the 2023 Wellington Jazz Festival
Text note
Ursula Le Guin translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching