I had love and specific passion this year. I felt more detached, as many of my dispatches have noted over the last year but particularly in this week of assessment. I felt a listlessness about even completing this list, yet the need to communicate was still there. The need for completeness (in a task that can never be completed) still gnaws at me. I still had to express my … [Read more...]
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – ‘Real Enemies’
If there's one thing I find reassurance in within the midst of a depressing world, it's the nerdery of Darcy James Argue. The man can go in hard about coffee, about bagels, about politics, about the music industry, about every nut and bolt necessary to compose his music. On his latest release with his big band, Secret Society, out now on New Amsterdam Records called Real … [Read more...]
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society’s ‘Brooklyn Babylon’ Score Available for Free Download
Bandleader/composer Darcy James Argue's latest album, 2013's Brooklyn Babylon, was an impressive album, melding his ornate sense of big band songwriting with narrative elements to bring the work of Danijel Zezelj to life. Now, Argue has gussied up the sheet music so it actually looks presentable and has made all 277 pages of the score available for free at the sheet music … [Read more...]