Dijeridoo
At the Monterrey Jazz Festival, we introduced new suite called The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse. It was inspired by a statement made by Mr. Marshall McCluhan of the University of Toronto. He says the whole world is going oriental, and that nobody will be able to retain his or her identity-not even the orientals.
Now, we travel around the world quite a bit and during the last seven or eight years we have noticed this thing coming about. We have written this suite that would like to play a piece of it for you now. In this particular segment, ladies and gentlemen, we have adjusted our perspective to that of the kangaroo and the dijiridoo, which automatically puts us Down Under, or Out Back. From this viewpoint, it is most improbable that anyone can tell who is enjoying the shadow of whom.
Harold Ashby has been inducted into the responsibility and obligation of scraping off a tiny chip of the charisma of his chinoiserie, almost immediatley after the piano player completes his riki-tiki.