Adam> Would anyone who has heard Sex Mob's "Din of Inequity" care to provide a brief review? Also how does the altoist Briggan Krauss compare with Zorn in relation to playing style and ability? Does
Adam> any zorn-lister have an opinion regarding who they consider to be the best altoist in NYC at present?
Briggan Krauss has one recording DESCENDING TO END. But you nearly
can't identify any saxophone sounds. Krauss used samples of his
playing, electronical sound (???) and created the music out of it.
Well, I don't know who is the best altoist in NY, but Krauss is one of
them.
PEACE
Tim mailto:TimBlechmann@gmx.de
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:34:09 -0700
From: improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel)
Subject: Re: Sex Mob and Krauss Versus Zorn
At 5:20 PM 10/20/00, Tim Blechmann wrote:
>Adam> Would anyone who has heard Sex Mob's "Din of Inequity" care to
>provide a brief review? Also how does the altoist Briggan Krauss compare
>with Zorn in relation to playing style and ability? Does
>Adam> any zorn-lister have an opinion regarding who they consider to be
>the best altoist in NYC at present?
Doesn't Ornette still live in NYC? And basically, isn't that a kind of
stupid question? This isn't the WWF after all.
>
>Briggan Krauss has one recording DESCENDING TO END. But you nearly
>can't identify any saxophone sounds. Krauss used samples of his
>playing, electronical sound (???) and created the music out of it.
Krauss also has a great CD on Knitting Factory called 300, with Wayne
Horvitz and Kenny Wolleson. It alternates some very beautiful sax/piano
duets with some very extreme free-improv. Had an interesting conversation
about this disc with Horvitz, who said that it had been passed over by all
of the new "ecstatic jazz/free jazz/whatever" labels in NYC because he
plays electronic keyboards on it.
>
>Well, I don't know who is the best altoist in NY, but Krauss is one of
>them.
>
Agreed. I used to see him with Pigpen and felt he had chops that exceeded
his ideas, but what I've heard recently has been excellent. I saw him with
Sex Mob, which I expected to be annoying, and enjoyed it very much.
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 21:04:14 +0200
From: Tim Blechmann <TimBlechmann@gmx.de>
Subject: Re[2]: Sex Mob and Krauss Versus Zorn
Dave> Krauss also has a great CD on Knitting Factory called 300, with Wayne
Dave> Horvitz and Kenny Wolleson. It alternates some very beautiful sax/piano
Dave> duets with some very extreme free-improv. Had an interesting conversation
Dave> about this disc with Horvitz, who said that it had been passed over by all
Dave> of the new "ecstatic jazz/free jazz/whatever" labels in NYC because he
Dave> plays electronic keyboards on it.
>>
>>Well, I don't know who is the best altoist in NY, but Krauss is one of
>>them.
>>
Dave> Agreed. I used to see him with Pigpen and felt he had chops that exceeded
Dave> his ideas, but what I've heard recently has been excellent. I saw him with
Dave> Sex Mob, which I expected to be annoying, and enjoyed it very much.
I haven't heard 300 jet, because it is hard to get in Germany. But I
had been at a duet concert Krauss/Horvitz last year. I liked it very
much. Much more that the Pigpen recording Miss Ann. It is not bad, but
it doesn't reach the quality of this concert.
When I heard Sex Mob this year, was a bit disappointed because I
expected that Krauss would play much more, but he played just a few
soli compared to Steven Bernstein.
But I don't know their CDs yet. (Same problem like 300)
PEACE
Tim mailto:TimBlechmann@gmx.de
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 15:09:37 -0500
From: Steve Smith <ssmith36@sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: Sidsel Endreson (no Zorn content, but read it, it's interesting!)
Alastair Wilson wrote:
> Last Friday I went to Ronnie Scotts for the first time ever, to see Sidsel
> Endreson, a breathtaking Norwegian singer. She has two albums on ECM (which
> I have), the last of which came out in 1994, featuring (amongst others)
> Django Bates and Nils Potter Molvaer.
>
> [snippity snip] does anyone have any
> further info on Sidsel, especially what on earth she's been doing these last
> six years? I've done all sorts of searches on the internet
> but have come up with nothing.
Aside from the answers already provided by Marius Ergo, I'd like to take one
small opportunity to point out one more very nice session including Sidsel, who
I'll agree is a very special talent. Dallas-based trumpeter/composer/world
explorer Dennis Gonzalez released an album in 1993 on the Polish Gowi label
titled 'Welcome to Us,' which is essentially Dennis in the lead and writing for
Sidsel's ECM bandmates. A haunting, lovely, magical experience in the same
vein as her ECM stuff but with distinctive twists provided by Gonzalez, it was
subsequently reissued in 1996 on Koch Jazz, the only record so far on which you
can see me listed as "executive producer" (which simply means I was the one who
badgered Koch into licensing the disc in the first place).
'Welcome to Us' features Gonzalez, Endresen, Molvaer, Bugge Wesseltoft (piano,
synth), Terje Gewelt (bass), and Pal Thowsen (drums). It's on Gowi CDG 10 and
Koch Jazz 3-7823-2.
Self-absorbed plug finished. You can find several other citings of Sidsel
(including some of the discs Marius mentioned) if you use the web search engine
www.google.com which is probably the best one out there...
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
NP - Ruth Cameron, "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe," 'Roadhouse' (Verve)
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 12:15:52 -0700
From: "s~Z" <keith@pfmentum.com>
Subject: Crimson Rulership
The doubt was not about whether or not they were or were not in the band.
It was about whether such a band could "still rule."
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:42:54 -0400
From: Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com>
Subject: Re: Crimson Rulership
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 12:15:52PM -0700, s~Z wrote:
> The doubt was not about whether or not they were or were not in the band.
>
> It was about whether such a band could "still rule."
Listening to the CD (as I have several times a week since its release):
Yes, they can. In fact, I prefer it to the Double Trio. There's room to
hear each of the stellar players, and the songwriting is better
integrated than in the previous group.
Eagerly looking forward to seeing them in DC...
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