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Zorn List Digest       Wednesday, March 17 1999       Volume 02 : Number 625



In this issue:
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       Re: The Alter Rebbe's Nigun
       Re:Gentlemen, start your engines
       RE: Warsaw Summer Jazz Days
       montreal info
       Roscoe's 'Nine To Get Ready'
       Re: great news for (old) Terry Riley lovers
       Re: great news for (old) Terry Riley lovers
       Wadada Leo Smith
       Re: Dion McGregor(?)'s Dreams
       Felix Lajko
       Tom Waits en francais
       Laswell on Tzadik?
       Re: Tom Waits en francais
       Alter Rebbe's Nigun/ Secret Chiefs/ Angelus Novus/ radio
       R: thelonious monk
       Couldn't be more off topic than this !
       Re: Couldn't be more off topic than this !
       Re: Tom Waits en francais? Tabernacle!
       Two Christians
       Re: Roscoe's 'Nine To Get Ready'

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:53:08 +1100
From: Peter Hollo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: The Alter Rebbe's Nigun

Phlegm (or rather Ambarchi & Avenaim) do come from an orthodox
upbringing. However, the photos on the CD definitely aren't of them -
these days Oren has short hair (of differing colour depending when...)
and Robbie has something like dreadlocks... somehow I think they've
transcended their upbringing ;)

Great CD too.

Peter.
- --
Peter Hollo  [e-mail]  http://www.fourplay.com.au/me.html
              FourPlay - Eclectic Electric String Quartet
                       http://www.fourplay.com.au
                     Raven: experimental electronic
                 http://www.fourplay.com.au/sound.html
"Of course, dance music can be a music where you lie on your back and
your brain cells dance" -Michael Karoli of Can, quoted in Wire mag.

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:26:18 -0500
From: Dan Given <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:Gentlemen, start your engines

>Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 01:23:29 -0500
>From: Steve Smith <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Gentlemen, start your engines - Live Masada series begins in April
>Also announced in the Koch book for April: another Cortical Foundation
>release of archival Terry Riley (Untitled Organ, Dorian Reeds, In C -
>Mantra); a disc from the Knitting Factory's Jewish Alternative Movement
>imprint titled "Zohar" by Uri Caine, Aaron Bensoussan, DJ Olive and
>others; and, at long last, a CD pressing of the Anthony Braxton / Gino
>Robair duo album long available only on fairly flimsy vinyl from
>Rastascan.  Street date for all of the above is Tuesday, April 20 for
>the U.S.

Hasn't the Braxton/Robair disc been out for a long time?  I remember some
email with Gino months ago about what the extra material was, and I'm sure
I've seen it listed by both Verge and Cadence.  Haven't bothered getting
it, because there's only one short piece not on the record.  And, the CD
doesn't come with that great cover.

BTW, Steve, how is the Rich Halley Beanbenders disc that was your NP last
week.  I was listening to Umatilla Variations a few days ago, and love it.
How does it compare?

Dan


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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:27:55 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: Warsaw Summer Jazz Days

Hi
Artur Nowak wrote:
>Just to remind to some of you: this festival starts right afer Warsaw
Summer
>Jazz Days, where you have a chance to listen during 4 days to: Elliott
Sharp
>Trio, Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos, David Torn / Vernon Reid / Elliott
>Sharp, Masada String Trio, Masada quartet, Bar Kokhba, Henry Threadgill,
>Steve Coleman Big Band, Bill Laswell / Jack DeJohnette / Sultan Khan / Paul
>Schutze, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Boccio / Gibbs / Rypdal, Critters Buggin.

WSJD'99 program has changed a little.
All updates you can find at my trade site:
http://witkowski.tvp.com.pl

Bye
Marcin

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:31:50 -0300
From: "J.A.Bueno" <[e-mail]>
Subject: montreal info

I will be visiting Montreal,Canada for a couple of days .
I will need some advice from any Zornie living in this city
(hotels,music stores ,live music, etc.). Any help will be welcomed.
Please mail me privately.
Thank you in advance .
Antonio





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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 99 09:36:38 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Roscoe's 'Nine To Get Ready'

     Eric Ong gave a brief and, as I recall, favorable review of this a
     week or so back and I'd just like to chime in and then some. What a
     fine album! This is easily the best thing Mitchell's released since
     'The Flow of Things' and possibly since one of my all time faves,
     'Snurdy McGurdy and her Dancin' Shoes'. Every track here is strong,
     richly arranged and wonderfully recorded.

     Special mention for Hugh Ragin (seems silly to say after about 20
     years, but he's _still_ probably the most underrated trumpeter
     around...well, with Andy Altenfelder) and the great, great George
     Lewis, who solo with true invention and, with Roscoe, form a powerful
     front line.

     Mitchell's compositions strike this listener as _so_ much deeper than
     his recent output on releases like 'Hey, Donald' and others, that I
     wonder if he was saving them for an ensemble of the right size and
     caliber and the appropriate recording situation. Whatever, I'm elated
     they made it to disc. Kudos to ECM for continuing to come up with the
     (very) occasional rough-edged gem.

     Brian Olewnick

     NR: Murakami's 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland...'
         On deck: Garland's 'The Tesseract'




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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:05:11 -0800
From: "Patrice L. Roussel" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: great news for (old) Terry Riley lovers

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:54:47 EST  [e-mail] wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 3/17/99 12:47:47 AM, [e-mail] writes:
>
> << Also from Koch in March, a new label called
> Xeric bows with a single CD solo disc by Mats Gustafsson, "The Education of
> Lars
> Jerry."  But about the Xeric label I know nothing at all. >>
>
> I looked at this catalog a few weeks ago, and I thought I remembered the
> Gustafsson disc had interesting sidemen, but I can't remember who, and maybe
> I'm wrong.

You are right. The record was initially not a solo one. I don't know what
happened but it is a solo record now.

    Patrice.

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:06:06 -0800
From: "Patrice L. Roussel" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: great news for (old) Terry Riley lovers

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:54:47 EST  [e-mail] wrote:
>
> Xeric is a new sublabel of Table Of The Elements, who Koch is also now
> distributing. they have a Paul Panhuysen CD slated in March, along with a new
> Richard Youngs CD. we'll see if TOTE is able to hit their release dates any
> better now that Koch is distributing them.

From what I understood, Xeric is to focus on improv.

    Patrice.

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 99 11:46:25 -0300
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Wadada Leo Smith

I need to know the complete Wadada Leo Smith's discography. Please help!
You can email me privately.

Thanks in advance.

Hugo.

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:02:32 GMT0BST
From: DR S WILKIE <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Dion McGregor(?)'s Dreams

Heard one track from this on the radio the other night.  Absolutely
mind-boggling!  Has anyone picked it up yet?

Sean Wilkie

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:49:43 +0200
From: Stephen Fruitman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Felix Lajko

Regarding the recent "gypsy"/Balkan thread: I=B4d like to suggest a
remarkable CD by one Felix Lajko entitled _Es Zenekara_ (1997) on the
Hungarian Rana in Fabula label. Remarkable stuff - Lajko is a little over
twenty years old and is an ethnic Hungarian living in Slovenia. In his
t-shirt and jeans he looks just like a scrawny punk - and that=B4s exactly
how he plays his violin (and occasionally zither): like a punk but one with
a deep understanding of the music of his region. It=B4s raucous but extremel=
y
melodic, rough-hewn but well-recorded. The thirteen-minute cut "Ethno
Camp", for example, sounds like a late-night hoedown in some seedy
backwater Balkan Inn that just won=B4t end. He is backed up by a band
consisting of muffled drums, darbouka, trombone, guitar and various basses
and just rips through their solid backing so that you are left marvelling
how he can saw away at his instrument like that without the strings
igniting.

Have no idea if the label has any sort of North American or West European
distribution deal, but inquiries can be sent to:

Rana in Fabula
H-1464 Budapest
Pf 1377 Hungary
(Fax: [phone]

All the best, Stephen

Stephen Fruitman
Dept of Historical Studies
Umea University
SE-901 87 Umea Sweden



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Bj=F6rn Olsson,
Inst. f=F6r id=E9historia,
Ume=E5 universitet
901 87 Ume=E5
tel. [phone] fax 143374



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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:51:19 +0200
From: Stephen Fruitman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Tom Waits en francais

Anyone on the list a reader of French interested in a nice little 30-page
magazine supplement entitled "Jim Jarmusch sur la route avec Tom Waits"?
=46ascinating dialogue between the director and Waits about Waits=B4 music,
featuring excellent photos of the latter by the former. Free upon request
to the first man/woman interested.

Btw, I understand that his new CD is just about to be released. Anyone
heard anything yet?

All the best, Stephen

Stephen Fruitman
Dept of Historical Studies
Umea University
SE-901 87 Umea Sweden



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Bj=F6rn Olsson,
Inst. f=F6r id=E9historia,
Ume=E5 universitet
901 87 Ume=E5
tel. [phone] fax 143374



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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:52:07 +0200
From: Stephen Fruitman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Laswell on Tzadik?

Could anyone who has heard the new Bill Laswell release on Tzadik please
post an impression? Very curious, but Uncle Bill veers off in many
different directions, and some of them I am not interested in following.
Thanks in advance. Stephen

Stephen Fruitman
Dept of Historical Studies
Umea University
SE-901 87 Umea Sweden



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Bj=F6rn Olsson,
Inst. f=F6r id=E9historia,
Ume=E5 universitet
901 87 Ume=E5
tel. [phone] fax 143374



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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 10:16:27 -0800
From: s~Z <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Tom Waits en francais

> Btw, I understand that his new CD is just about to be released. Anyone
> heard anything yet?

April 20 with a small tour possibly.
http://www.sonicnet.com/news/archive/singlestory.jhtml?id=511741

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:55:41 -0500 (EST)
From: William York <[e-mail]>
Subject: Alter Rebbe's Nigun/ Secret Chiefs/ Angelus Novus/ radio

> >     Just bought this  record and I think its amazing. Does anybody know
> > anything about this guys or about PHLEGM, the "punk unit" to which they

I agree, I liked this one too. Some of it reminded me of Captain Beefheart
or, like they mention in the promo, Mark Ribot (in an aggressive mode).

> They're two pretty regular looking guys (not like the picture!) who enjoy
> playing (or perhaps trying to play) anything in that punk/improv/noise
> field - they've been involved with Australian tours of Mr Bungle and Secret
> Chiefs (and others), playing improv/game pieces with them. Their latest

I thought they do pretty well for 2 guys doing all the instruments, and
its better than most punk/improv/noise I hear.  Actually, a lot of it is
more in the drone/sparse percussion vein, to put it loosely, and again its
above average for its type.  I thought their recording and sound effects
(like the backward Rabbi voice in the last song) were especially
impressive, so the connection with Bungle and the Secret Chiefs makes
sense b/c those guys know what they're doing with that.

Just wondering if anyone else has heard much of the stuff from the
'Gallery of Essentials' on the Secret Chiefs site.  I got Peter Thomas'
"Raumpotroille", the Andre Popp CD, and one of the Dumitrescu albums
(Medium III, etc) and think they're great, although I'm not on the same
level of enthusiasm as whoever writes those glowing reviews (who is it?).

Oddly, they list Zorn's "Angelus Novus" as an essential album for those
continually let down by his other recent work while also ranting about
post-modernism ruining music... If anything he's done is going to be
called post-modern I'd have to say "Live and Let Die" would be at the top
of the list.  And I'm not sure how much if any Angelus Novus stands out
against other stuff from the last few years.  Anyway, his coments are
interesting.  I would guess its Trey Spruance..... Actually this topic was
sort of talked about a few months ago on the list, so sorry for rambling.

WY

P.S. Now up to 50 of the 59 or 60 "Radio" references.  Thanks for the
help.  Even found Septic Death.  That show will be this Thursday at
9PM-12PM Eastern time, at www.wxyc.org/


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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:15:17 +0100
From: "Francesco Martinelli" <[e-mail]>
Subject: R: thelonious monk

>From what I heard, the Dewilde is a great book on Monk written from a
pianist
>perspective. It does not really fit the definition of a bio in the
traditional
>sense and might disappoint a reader looking for the nitty-gritty details
>about the life of the musician.


I read the book. I'm not into nitty gritty but I'd rather read about monk
than dewilde's reactions and relationship with him. I think the Gourse is
bad, and the Fitterling is up to now the best, including a section with a
record by record discussion that would be very helpful for a novice.


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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:00:18 EST
From: "James Adrane" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Couldn't be more off topic than this !

Absolutely no Zorn content but I would just like to share
this with as many people as possible.


Instructions For Life

1.  Give people more than they expect, and do it cheerfully.
2.  Memorize your favorite poem.
3.  Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you
want.
4.  When you say "I love you" - mean it.
5.  When you say "I'm sorry" look the person in the eye.
6.  Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
7.  Believe in love at first sight.
8.  Never laugh at anyone's dreams.
9.  Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it's the only
way
to live life completely.
10. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
11. Don't judge people by their relatives.
12. Talk slowly but think quickly.
13. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer,
smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"
14. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
15. Call your mom.
16. Say "Bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
17. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
18. Remember the three R's : Respect for self; Respect for
others; Responsibility for all your actions.
19. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
20. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps
to correct it.
21. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your
voice.
22. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get
older, their conversational skills will be as important as nay others.
23. Spend some time alone.
24. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
25. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
26. Read more books and watch less TV.
27. Live a good, honorable life. When you get older and think back,
you'll enjoy it a second time.
28. Trust in God but lock your car.
29. Do all you can to create a tranquil, harmonious home.
30. In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation.
Don't bring up the past.
31. Read between the lines.
32. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
33. Be gentle with the Earth.
34. Pray. There's immeasurable power in it.
35. Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
36. Mind your own business.
37. Don't trust a man/woman who doesn't close his/her eyes when you
kiss.
38. Once a year, go someplace you've never been to.
39. If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you
are living. That is wealth's greatest satisfaction.
40. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of
luck.
41. Learn the rules, then break some.
42. Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for
each other is greater than the need for each other.
43. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
44. Remember that your character is your destiny.
45. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Thanks for reading this.
James
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:33:06 -0800
From: Gene Natalia <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Couldn't be more off topic than this !

46. Do not send platitudinous lists of "Instructions for Life" to the Zorn
list.


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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:00:01 -0500
From: Matthew Shepherd <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Tom Waits en francais? Tabernacle!

Stephen Fruitman wrote:

> Anyone on the list a reader of French interested in a nice little 30-pa=
ge
> magazine supplement entitled "Jim Jarmusch sur la route avec Tom Waits"=
?
> Fascinating dialogue between the director and Waits about Waits=B4 musi=
c,
> featuring excellent photos of the latter by the former. Free upon reque=
st
> to the first man/woman interested.

Zut alors! I'm a French staggerer but with two Franco roommates who could
help me read (and poss. rough translations for the French impaired, if
wanted/needed.)

Waits speaks FRENCH?

I heard he was dying of throat cancer. Goofy rumour?

[e-mail]




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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 99 16:09:47 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Two Christians

     Marclay and Wolff, that is.

     I believe they're performing together at Columbia University on March
     26. Just heard a rather vague annoucement of same on KCR; if anyone
     has more detailed info, please post. Thanks.

     Brian Olewnick



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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:28:57 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Roscoe's 'Nine To Get Ready'

In a message dated 3/17/99 11:08:12 AM, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Kudos to ECM for continuing to come up with the
     (very) occasional rough-edged gem.  >>

I haven't heard the Mitchell record yet, although I'm looking forward to it.

but I'd like to chime in with congrats to ECM, a label which I typically have
very little tolerance for, for the Wachsmann/Lytton record they just put out.
very highly recommended. it's good to hear these two get a chance to stretch
out a bit on their own, after so many records in the shadows as sidemen. and,
as always, I'm a sucker for great free improv mixed with electroacoustic
experimentation, which these two guys both excel at.

Jon

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