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The Anderson Ponty Band Project

Jon, with a wonderful band backing him, played the Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, Colorado on 20th September 2014. The set list was as follows.   Hand Written Set List Provided By Jamie Dunlap to Two attendees Part One  Intro leads into One Is Everything  - KS demo entitled" One", on which JA has introduced a vocal arrangement to a rearranged version of JLP's "Rhythms of Hope". Jamie Glaser confirmed on the 6th January he had been working on this piece and it is now named "One In The Rhythms of Hope".  A for Aria - a new piece by JA which is being worked on for the CD release and appears on Jamie Glaser's (JG) snippet video and the official montage from the Band. A snippet is now available to pledgers. Credited to Anderson/Tomat (Enrico Tomat is a television producer and writes generic music soundscapes, he was given a thank you credit on JA's Survival as a "musical friend" ) Yours Is No Disgrace -  (described as ballad like

Steve Howe - Artrix Bromsgrove

We Love When We Hear - Steve Howe. From the opening "Pyramidology" to  "Clap" this was a vintage night out with Mr Howe. It was a tremendous set :- Family pieces, homages to his expanding family. Nods to his influences the Blues, Country, Jimmy Bryant, Bream and Vivaldi. and his wealth of feature progressive acoustic pieces. It is the latter I would like to dwell on. We often talk about progressive music and debate what precisely it is, for me Steve has mined the fundamental nature of what it is - juxtaposing different musical ideas in a genuinely surprising way. Whether it is the the beautiful melody of a piece like "Sketches in the Sun" or "Masquerade" the rhythmic playfulness of "Corkscrew" or the pocket micro symphonies of Solitaire and Australia he develops an idea draws you in and then adds a flurry an inversion or a rhythmic interlude before returning to flirt with the original idea, teasing you. Each time your return