"Branch Cathedral" Cornelius Boots Bass Shakuhachi Nature Blues 尺八 Phoenix, AZ - April 28, 2024

Root & Riffcraft Recital at Glendale Community College in Phoenix, Arizona hosted by Dr. Stefanie Gardner and funded by an MCCD Grant.
"World premiere" of this new nature hymn, composed & performed by Cornelius Boots on 2.45 Taimu (bass) shakuhachi made by Ken Mujitsu LaCosse
Avant-garde Nature Music & Woodwind Animism. Everything here is 100% breath-powered and 100% plant-based. It is harder to make robust tunes with that formula than we tend to stop and think about, but this is part of the deeper mission going on here.
Natural shakuhachi - root-end wisdom - deep nature blues
Cornelius Boots is a certified grandmaster of Zen shakuhachi, a renegade classical composer and lifelong woodwind performance visionary-pioneer. Long bio below.
Woodwind Nature -- Elemental Musicianship
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LONG BIO:
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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深禅 (Shinzen)

[@interruptingPreempt]

Absolutely wonderful playing! I wish I could've been there!

[@JohnGarnerViolin]

Love it! Sprinkle of Danse Macabre (or as we Brits tend to think of it: the Jonathan Creek theme tune)? The title makes me think of Chapel Perilous (Robert Wilson), although I imagine you had a more literal image in mind.

[@Diehydro]

Oh, I like this very much, wonder how it would sound on a 2.9 ?? 😉

[@CorneliusBoots]

yes I think that would be the heavier version, it should work pretty good 🦧

[@Diehydro]

@@CorneliusBoots Feel free to send the score mon frere 😉

[@CorneliusBoots]

​@@Diehydro once the score lives outside my head, you shall be able to partake soon thereafter . . . .

[@Diehydro]

@@CorneliusBoots Awesome sauce in abundance