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Bronfman meets the "secret ingredient"

On Sunday, August 9, pianist Yefim Bronfman will appear on the Food Network's Iron Chef America as a judge, with Francois Kwaku-Dongo and Michael Symon battling it out.  Perhaps while the chefs are at work, Bronfman will offer some of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Piano Concerto, which he is playing in Edinburgh, Helsinki and Lucerne later in the month.

What next? Elliott Carter at Birdland?

On All About Jazz, Ludwig vanTrikt interviews Australian trumpeter Scott Tinkler, who reveals this gem in talking about his current musical concerns:

"Secondly, for some time now I've been looking at the harmonic ideas introduced by Elliott Carter as well. Although twelve-note-all-interval chords tend to be very difficult on the trumpet (each chord covers five and a half octaves), I've been learning some of his chords in abbreviated ways to introduce a very different harmonic spectrum which I'm starting to get a hold on slowly. Just as the rhythmic variations get away from the eighth-note, this approach moves away from the dominant-tonic sound. The combination of these allows me to play very long phrases that have a very different sense of tension and release."

(Thanks to Carter-phile Joe Barron of Philadelphia for the tip.)