Swirling Waters :: A Free Improvisation - J Kyle Gregory, Trumpet, Bill Koehler, Double Bass

Описание: Swirling Waters is a free improvisation based on melodic groups that are passed between the trumpet and bass. The effect is like that of a dialogue that waxes and wanes as the piece unfolds. Swirling waters is included on our album entitled H.I. Human Intelligence. The album title was chosen as a reaction to the added control that A.I. will impart in our lives. We must always continue to remember what it means to be human and to act by expressing ourselves in creative ways. The genre of free improvisation provides a safe haven for expression in the true present moment as a call to “be there, now.”

J Kyle Gregory and Bill Koehler first met as fellow music graduate students at Indiana University in the mid 1980s. Our second rendezvous happened in the mid 1990s as we both realized we were music professors at nearby Illinois Universities. At that time, we first discovered our unity as kindred spirits in free improvisation. We got together regularly to practice, record, and present some concerts together. Our unfolding paths diverged when Kyle moved to Europe in 1998. Now, 25 years later our paths crossed for the third time in 2023, and as fate would have it, we again live an hour away from each other! Once again we are celebrating the musical and personal affinity that makes creative collaboration such a precious pleasure for us and we hope also for you as listeners!!
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Recorded on December 4, 2025 at the Sonic Ashram - Studio 1

VTR 03-2026-02

Recorder: Sound Devices Mix Pre6II
Mic: Neumann TLM102 for db
WA47jr. Figure 8 for tr

Dr. Bill Koehler
Bassist, Composer, Author
Professor Emeritus
Illinois State University

Check out Bill Koehler’s Albums:

Bass Alone - Sand Castles
Bass Alone - An Improvised Soundtrack for an Imaginary Silent Movie
Bass Alone - When Stillness and the Quantum Soup Merge
Bass Alone - Improvisations in the Tonality of the Universe
Bass Alone - Hymns and Good Old Tunes
Living Time - Bill Koehler - Bass, Manpreet Bedi - Tabla
Timeless Flow - J Kyle Gregory, Trumpet, and Bill Koehler, Double Bass
H.I. Human Intelligence - J Kyle Gregory, Trumpet, and Bill Koehler, Double Bass
The Wisdom of Uncertainty - J Kyle Gregory, Trumpet, and Bill Koehler, Double Bass
Winterreise Song Cycle for Double Bass and Piano - Bill Koehler, Double Bass, Amanda Huff McClure, Piano
Syzygy – Bill Koehler with the Sonic Exploration Society
Vandana – Journey2gether – Bill Koehler, double bass & Manpreet Bedi, tabla
Glimpse – Bill Koehler – double bass - solo, duo, and quartet

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