Whether Report
May 4th, 2008HELLO, FRIENDS OF DEST: OUT. You may have noticed that we recently experienced a power outage here, with about two days of down time. We are relieved to be back in any capacity whatsoever, and though it will take some time to get things exactly as they were (or better), we hope you will continue to trust in our ongoing existence. Given the lack of access, we are extending both parts of the contest below into next week; please try to get us your entries by Wednesday, 14 May. Many thanks.

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Welcome to the fourth Destination: OUT contest — brought to you by Ethan Iverson!
Take it away, Ethan:
This piece doesn’t sound like the rest of this artist’s output in the slightest, which makes it a rather unfair blindfold test. Probably the only way to guess it correctly is to know about it already. Two big hints:
1) There is multi-tracking involved.
2) It’s a tone poem based on a famous piece of literature.
Next week at Destination: OUT I’ll host the answer + a bonus track and short essay about this musician’s contribution to free jazz. Over at Do The Math I’ll have a longer essay about the same musician.
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Thanks, Ethan. As before, this will be a two-part contest. Part One is the blindfold test above. Write us at destination.out { AT } gmail { DOT } com with your guess of the name of the tune and/or the musician responsible. You have until this Friday at midnight EST to get us your answers. We will throw all correct and partially correct answers in a hat and draw one lucky winner. (Note: out of fairness to others, do not place your guess in the comments.)
Part Two: This contest is simple: We’e thinking of a number between 1 and 100. Leave your guess in the comments section of this entry; one number only per entrant, please. You have until this Friday at midnight EST to make your guess. Please be sure not to duplicate anyone else’s number. The lucky person who gets it right – or comes closest – wins.
Feel free to enter both!
OUR FABULOUS PRIZES:
Each winner will receive a CD copy of Mike Osborne’s Force of Nature, along with Echoes of Duneden, a deep collaboration between G. F. Fitz-Gerald and Lol Coxhill. The discs are provided courtesty of the wonderful label behind these releases, Reel Recordings. All of Reel’s discs sound amazing, are packaged beautifully, and are well worth hearing.
THE WINNERS:
The winners of the contest will be announced by next Monday morning. Good luck!
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NYC (AND VICINITY) RESIDENTS AND VISITORS:
Iverson is appearing at the Village Vanguard this week, Tuesday through Saturday, two sets nightly, with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. Anyone who has read Iverson on Haden and/or Motian knows that these evenings will be steeped in history and cross-generational beauty-making. And anyone who has previously heard any combination of these three fellows knows that they’re in for a memorable night.




