Joe Tucker
percussionist
Media:
recordings & video
The Immaculate Parade - Whitney George
The Immaculate Parade is a constraint piece for jazz trio. Frenetically jumping from tightly controlled to raucus and unruly. Written specifically for Trio TBD, who's members float between new music, orchestral playing, and jazz, Whitney composed us a piece that incorporated these diverse elements while also possibly trying to kill the three of us.
Trio TBD:
David Whitwell - Trombone
Emilio Guarino - Bass
Joe Tucker - Drums
Raijin - Whitney George
Raijin is the Shinto god of thunder. He creates this thunder by playing giant drums that continually rotate around him. A more apt god for a percussionist, to be sure. Whitney George wrote me this solo ((for drumset, toy piano, found metal instruments, and tape) in 2014-15, and I've posted an excerpt of it to the left. If you'd like to check out the entire piece you can watch it here, listen to it here, or buy the score from Whitney here
Open Me, Readdress Me -
mvt 11 of Night Like Velvet by Whitney E. George
Night Like Velvet is a twelve movement, nonlinear dialouge using the poems of Slyvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Movement 11 is from Ted Hughes Birthday Letters, and was written for Joe. The text, which is not spoken, but inserted into the performer's score as to inform interpretation, is as follows:
Do as you like with me
I am your parcel
I have only our address on me
Open me or readdress me
You can also find the full set of videos here, or several different recordings of the set here.
Night Like Velvet is a twelve movement, nonlinear dialouge using the poems of Slyvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Movement 11 is from Ted Hughes Birthday Letters, and was written for Joe. The text, which is not spoken, but inserted into the performer's score as to inform interpretation, is as follows:
Do as you like with me
I am your parcel
I have only our address on me
Open me or readdress me
You can also find the full set of videos here, or several different recordings of the set here.
Night Like Velvet is a twelve movement, nonlinear dialouge using the poems of Slyvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Movement 11 is from Ted Hughes Birthday Letters, and was written for Joe. The text, which is not spoken, but inserted into the performer's score as to inform interpretation, is as follows:
Do as you like with me
I am your parcel
I have only our address on me
Open me or readdress me
You can also find the full set of videos here, or several different recordings of the set here.
Madrigals, Bk 1 -
George Crumb
Composed by Crumb in 1965 (with text by Federico García Lorca, ), this is far and away one of my favorite chamber ensemble pieces. I've gotten to perform it multiple times with several incredibly talented ensembles. Below is (sadly) my only recording of it to date. Enjoy!
Emilio Guarino - Bass
Kristin Lietterman - Soprano
Joe Tucker - Vibes, Percussion