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Concert Year 2017 (Part 1)

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Going to concerts, experiencing live music, the once in a lifetime interpretation of a recording or a score, or improvisation in front of an audience. Those are the moments that this blog intended to document. The current global pandemic changed that and there’s no way of knowing when that experience will return as it was until recently. Before the crisis hit this blog was averaging three posts a month. The last show I went to was on March 11th and there’s been nothing but cancellations and postponements since then. I thought it’ll be a good idea to look back on some of the concerts I attended before starting this blog. The first show I wrote about was a Terry Riley one in November of 2017 , so I decided to briefly write about the ones I went to that year and post some pictures as well. In January of 2017 I saw two legendary jazz artists. First I saw Hermeto Pascoal on the 7th at WWW Shibuya. I remember the show started with his entire band around a microphone with shakers a