John Coltrane "Wise One" 2.9 Bass Shakuhachi - Cornelius Boots, Heinz Chapel 2023 地無し尺八 - Taimu

Heinz Memorial Chapel, March 19, 2023 - University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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"Wise One" by John Coltrane from the Crescent album, arranged and performed/improvised by Cornelius Boots, 2.9 Taimu shakuhachi (jinashi) made by Ken Mujitsu LaCosse.
Camera work by Felicia I. Chavez.
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Cornelius Boots is a certified grandmaster of Zen shakuhachi, a renegade classical composer and lifelong woodwind performance visionary-pioneer. Long bio below.
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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)

[@brentwalker8596]

That was incredible. That bass shakuhachi is a monster.

[@Bobbert153]

Thank you for reaching for the stars, Cornelius.

[@JohnGarnerViolin]

Fresh yet ancient. Love it. Hope you’ll teach this to me someday.

[@CorneliusBoots]

count on it

[@dogsterooni]

wow amazing I play this on tenor sax but this is so much better brother

[@sitarnut]

Alto sax here.. can't begin to equal the Cornelius "Effect" He is so profound. I'm better off 48 years later trying to still sound like, and be as cool as Paul Desmond. My friend, Chris Blasdel also is a master of the Shakuhachi. He studied under Yamaguchi Goro - the Kinko master.

[@petterpettersson4581]

🙏🙏🙏

[@yanarguen1690]

You'll be excused next time you'll kiss the sky (courtesy of Jimi H.)

[@Diehydro]

Very nice my friend 👏👏👏

[@nicholasmullane7162]

AMAZING

[@KyDarknight]

❤❤❤

[@myopinions5613]

Liked it very much❤

[@doc1805]

Bravo!

[@illmindftww]

Could you give some more information about the shakuhachi's youre using? Did you make them yourself?

[@CorneliusBoots]

"2.9 Taimu bass shakuhachi (jinashi) made by Ken Mujitsu LaCosse in 2008." Madake bamboo harvested by Kodama-san near Matsukawa City, Nagano Prefecture.

[@illmindftww]

@@CorneliusBootsThank you, it's a beautiful instrument and you seem to have mastered it.