Flotation Device 2025-05-04 - Glass, Jarrett, Tan Dun

This drum-centric podcast features Tan Dun's Water Concerto for water percussion and orchestra, and Lukas Foss’s Percussion Concerto from 1974 that's only now received its first recording. We also hear the percussion-loaded trio of Adam Rudolph, Billy Hart and Dave Liebman with an added electroacoustic reflection on their long jazz pedigree. Keith Jarrett’s own long improvisational lineage is noted for his 80th birthday with an unusually “outside” piano solo, while Stefano Gervasoni deploys the resources of IRCAM in service of modern Tenebrae lessons and Philip Glass helps us celebrate World Accordion Day with his latest release. Melia Watras's recent work with the Harry Partch instrumentarium, some fresh improv from Satoko Fujii and Eunhye Jeong, and an Anna Webber composition for the Anzû Quartet round out the proceedings. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, originally broadcast May 4, 2025.