Started Thursday fairly slow. As has become something of a tradition for me, I got to Knoxville just in time to catch the second half of Rachel Grimes’ show; she was doing an ambitious and thought-provoking new piece, ‘The Way Forth.’ Then dinner, and the Matthew Eich Quintet, who were terrific. They clearly had well-honed chemistry, and were having loads of fun while displaying incredibly tight and sophisticated musicianship, using chops developed in the jazz idiom to do something entirely different. Post-jazz? Or maybe just, ‘ECM music’ 🙂

Now I’m sitting in the sun outside the art museum, getting ready to check out the ‘Roedelius Cells’ installation and then see Joep Beving.