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Zorn List Digest Monday, November 6 2000 Volume 03 : Number 155
In this issue:
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Fujii - Tamura European Tour
Re: taylor/oxley
David Watson
Feldman in Boston, Thursday
Chicago TV Pow show (long, rambling)
Re: Chicago TV Pow show (long, rambling)
Drummers [reprise]
Re: Drummers [reprise]
Re: Drummers [reprise]
Re: Chicago TV Pow show (long, rambling)
Re: Drummers [reprise]
Re: klezmonauts
Re: klezmonauts
Re: klezmonauts
Forward Energy Concert
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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 08:10:30 +0900
From: Allan Sutherland <ayac@sannet.ne.jp>
Subject: Fujii - Tamura European Tour
Hi,
European subscribers should be delighted to know that the superb pianist,
Satoko Fujii and the talented trumpeter Natsuki Tamura will be touring there
this month. playing solo, duo and other combinations. If they appear near to
you, take this chance to hear some wonderful, imaginative musicianship;
beautifully abstract, lyrical, and challenging. Here is the itinerary:
Nov.10th
Budapest, Hungary$B!!(J
Hungarian Radio Concert Hall
Judit Balvangos(as), Varga Zsolt(ts),
Javorka Adam(viola), Natsuki Tamura(Tp), Satoko Fujii(P)$B!!(J
Nov.11th
WIEN, Austria$B!!(J
ORF$B!&(JRadio Kulturhaus
in Yuko Gulda's concert
Nov.17th
CBSO centre, Berkley Street
Birmingham, England
piano solo
Nov.18th
Brewery Arts Centre
Kendal, Cumbria, England
piano solo
Nov.19th
The Albert Inn
Bristol, England
piano + Tp duo
Nov.20th
Warwick Arts centre
Warwickshire, England
duo
Nov.21st
Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall
London, England
duo
Nov.25th
Pianissimo
Lausanne, Switzerland
piano solo
Dec.3rd
Berlin Kreazberg Ballhaus Naunyn strasse
Berlin, Germany
with Anna Barth (dance)
Cheers,
Allan.
****************************************************************
McCoy Tyner, Charlie Parker sessionographies of all known recordings,
official and unofficial. Any information heartily appreciated, merci,
arigato, graci, thanks.
http://www.kyushu-ns.ac.jp/~allan/
And, of course, never forget this place:
*The European Thelonious Monk Website*:
http://www.maison-orangina.org/assocs/jazz/monk/
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Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 18:41:57 -0500
From: Brian Olewnick <olewnik@idt.net>
Subject: Re: taylor/oxley
JonAbbey2@aol.com wrote:
> all in all, I enjoyed the set, but didn't feel that it hit the transcendent
> levels that Taylor and Bailey did earlier this year.
I saw Saturday's first set and, while I'd agree with Jon's statement
above (though that concert was incredible enough that it'd be tough to
match), last night's had its own stellar moments. This was 75 minute
affair. During the first half there were more or less alternating
sections of pretty inspired stuff and searching around. Oxley seemed to
especially relish some passages, casting a gleeful grin in Cecil's
direction on a number of occasions. He had some enormous cowbell-like
thing as part of his set which, when scraped with a stick, produced the
harrowing brake-screech of an imminent car crash. Somewhere around the
50 minute mark, however, the two locked into a furious, high-pitched
battle (including numerous car crashes), the music took off into the
ether and remained there for the rest of the set, even when the volume
subsided drastically and Taylor was playing some gorgeous, soft tones.
Ultimately, a very satisfying set, if not quite up to Taylor/Bailey,
which may be the best show I've seen this year.
Brian Olewnick
NP: Vinko Globokar - Globokar/Berio/Stockhausen/Alsina (DG)
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 11:21:29 +1100
From: "Lee, Edgar" <Edgar.Lee@dva.gov.au>
Subject: David Watson
I released a David Watson CD of avant garde bagpipe playing a few years ago
on my record label. However, I've never met him or seen him play. Could any
of you that have seen David perform in New York please describe what he does
on stage either as leader or supporting someone like Ikue Mori.
Thanks
Edgar
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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 07:17:13 -0500
From: stephen drury <stevedrury@mindspring.com>
Subject: Feldman in Boston, Thursday
The New England Conservatory Callithumpian Consort presents two major late
works by Morton Feldman, the master of soft and slow. More than an hour of
pianissimo!
Bass Clarinet and Percussion with Chris Bush, bass clarinet, and Clay Condon
and Brian Vogel, percussion
Clarinet and String Quartet with J. Michael Norsworthy, clarinet; Jesse
Holstein and Mona Rashad, violins; Michael Fenton, viola; and Jacques Lee
Wood, cello
Thursday, November 9, at Williams Hall, New England Conservatory, 290
Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
8pm. Free.
This concert kicks off a year-long survey of the music of Morton Feldman,
creator of one of history's most unique bodies of music. From the brief,
indeterminate works in graphic notation of the 1950s, to the late, extremely
long meditations on scale and pattern of the '80s, Feldman's music rests
almost exclusively at the edge of silence. The performances by guest
artists and students at the Conservatory will include the rarely heard Five
Pianos and Piece for Four Pianos, the demanding chamber works Piano and
String Quartet, Clarinet and String Quartet, and Bass Clarinet and
Percussion, and the great works for solo piano For Bunita Marcus and Triadic
Memories.
Complete schedule available at http://www.stephendrury.com
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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 11:17:33 CST
From: "Ben Axelrad" <soulfrieda@hotmail.com>
Subject: Chicago TV Pow show (long, rambling)
I attended the Illusion of Safety/TV Pow/Stilluppsteypa show last night in
Chicago. Unfortunately I could only stay for the first two sets. The
performance was at Deadtech on W Fullerton. Does anyone know what this
place is? There were about 35 people at the show, mostly hipsters, none of
them looked over 30. Many came in groups and seemed to know each other. I
got the impression that most people were there just to be there and not for
any interest in the music (but then again I was tired and didn't really feel
like I fit in in the crowd, so I could be projecting). The performance
space was just a large, unfurnished room in an old building.
The set started off with 45 min by Illusion of Safety. It was mostly loud
and harsh. The performer liked to layer short loops of sound. It would
have been nice for 15 min, but I was soon bored. Before he started playing
he asked the crowd that we not talk because he would be doing some subtle
stuff. This subtle stuff was rattling metal objects in a bowl and throwing
pebbles, etc. on the floor over a soft electronic hum/drone. There was
maybe a combined total of 3 min of 'subtle' work. He would build tension
mainly by adding more and more layers and/or volume and then switch either
to silence or to a different loop/set of loops. Once or twice it was very
effective.
TV Pow performed a short (approx 30 min) set next. I thought their set was
excellent. I don't really know how to describe it, but it worked so well at
points that even noise in the audience (the pigeons flapping their wings
against the pipes outside, a girl dropping change on the floor, the door to
the bathroom opening and closing) seemed to be part of the music. They were
pretty amusing to watch in that the beardless guy and the redhead kept
conferring with each other and looking at each other's screens, while the
other guy (thick beard) kept to himself until the end. No one knew when the
set was over, so there was a minute of silence, which was finally disturbed
by (beardless') laptop beeping when shutting down. I thought (beardless)
seemed kind of pissed.
I left before the other sets (it was already 11:45pm and I wanted to be
functional today at work). One last note: I thought the atmosphere was very
cold. No one seemed really moved by the music, or at least not visibly. I
felt like I was in a room of catatonics. Is this true of other
electronic/laptop performances? (I still have the feeling that I was an
outsider in some art 'scene'. (Paranoia? Social anxiety?))
Ben
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:32:24 EST
From: JonAbbey2@aol.com
Subject: Re: Chicago TV Pow show (long, rambling)
In a message dated 11/6/00 12:19:53 PM, soulfrieda@hotmail.com writes:
<< They were pretty amusing to watch in that the beardless guy and the
redhead kept
conferring with each other and looking at each other's screens, while the
other guy (thick beard) kept to himself until the end. No one knew when the
set was over, so there was a minute of silence, which was finally disturbed
by (beardless') laptop beeping when shutting down. I thought (beardless)
seemed kind of pissed. >>
if anyone cares, beardless is Brent Gutzeit, redhead is Michael Hartman, and
thick beard is Todd Carter.
<<One last note: I thought the atmosphere was very
cold. No one seemed really moved by the music, or at least not visibly. I
felt like I was in a room of catatonics. Is this true of other
electronic/laptop performances? (I still have the feeling that I was an
outsider in some art 'scene'. (Paranoia? Social anxiety?))>>
I'd guess this was a function of the venue. I certainly wouldn't group laptop
crowds all together. the people who came to see Carl Stone at Roulette a few
weeks ago seemed quite different from the crowd for the Tonic TV
Pow/Stilluppsteypa show.
Jon
www.erstwhilerecords.com
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:46:16 -0800
From: "s~Z" <keith@pfmentum.com>
Subject: Drummers [reprise]
After seeing Han Bennink last week, I feared seeing Jim Black with
Eskelin/Parkins last night would prove anti-climactic.
Unfounded fear.
What an incredible artist.
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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 09:51:37 -0800
From: "Patrice L. Roussel" <proussel@ichips.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Drummers [reprise]
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:46:16 -0800 "s~Z" wrote:
>
> After seeing Han Bennink last week, I feared seeing Jim Black with
> Eskelin/Parkins last night would prove anti-climactic.
>
> Unfounded fear.
>
> What an incredible artist.
Same comment. He is getting better and better and since he started
high... After the show I told him that he might have found the
recipee for never being boring :-).
The trio was amazing going never where you expected them to,
always keeping the audience on the guard. They even made a cover
of a Mahavishnu song that was almost as big as the original!
Another great moment (among many) was Andrea's intro to Coltrane's
India. Good attendance to the show also, which is reassuring.
Patrice.
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:11:22 +0000
From: dan hill <dan@state51.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Drummers [reprise]
> > After seeing Han Bennink last week, I feared seeing Jim Black with
>> Eskelin/Parkins last night would prove anti-climactic.
>>
>> Unfounded fear.
>>
>> What an incredible artist.
>
>Same comment. He is getting better and better and since he started
>high... After the show I told him that he might have found the
>recipee for never being boring :-).
i found jim black utterly astonishing too. i saw him with dave
douglas' tiny bell trio here in london last month, and though i've
seen many great drummers this year for some reason (billy kilson with
dave holland's quintet, lombardo with zorn, marc ribot's cubanos
postizos, susie ibarra with derek bailey, even winant with the de
sade quartet), jim black was the pick of the bunch ... a real
showstealer, even with someone as irrepressible as dave douglas ...
for me, the only recent "percussive moments" as purely enjoyable
appear on burnt friedman's records imho.
but black/eskelin/parkins playing mahavishnu and coltrane covers
sounds really interesting!
btw, anybody heard the recent vandermark/drake/mcbride record:
"spaceways incorporated: thirteen cosmic standards by sun ra &
funkadelic" (atavistic)?
cheers,
dan.
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- ---+ dan hill [state51]
---+ new reviews on motion [6.11.2000]:
< john cage | cornelius cardew | merzbow | lewis taylor | albert
ayler | jim black | david bowie | nobody | keith tippett | susumu
yokota | cristian vogel >
http://motion.state51.co.uk/ +---
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:36:53 -0500
From: Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com>
Subject: Re: Chicago TV Pow show (long, rambling)
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:32:24PM -0500, JonAbbey2@aol.com wrote:
> <<One last note: I thought the atmosphere was very
> cold. No one seemed really moved by the music, or at least not visibly. I
> felt like I was in a room of catatonics. Is this true of other
> electronic/laptop performances? (I still have the feeling that I was an
> outsider in some art 'scene'. (Paranoia? Social anxiety?))>>
>
> I'd guess this was a function of the venue. I certainly wouldn't group laptop
> crowds all together. the people who came to see Carl Stone at Roulette a few
> weeks ago seemed quite different from the crowd for the Tonic TV
> Pow/Stilluppsteypa show.
The crowd and performance at MOCA-DC struck me as quite warm and
engaged.
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:31:48 -0800
From: "s~Z" <keith@pfmentum.com>
Subject: Re: Drummers [reprise]
but black/eskelin/parkins playing mahavishnu and coltrane covers
sounds really interesting!
They covered 'The Dance of Maya' from _Inner Mounting Flame_.
In LA they also covered 'We See' by Monk.
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:02:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Ken Waxman <mingusaum@yahoo.ca>
Subject: Re: klezmonauts
Considering that three of the most famous Christmas
songs, if not the most famous ones, were written by
Jews:
"White Christmas", "The Christmas Song" ("chestnuts
roasting on an open fire) and "Rudolph, The Red Nosed
Reindeer", I guess Gentiles need as much musical help
as they can with their holidays.
(Don't forget, though, that tenor saxophonist Booker
Ervin did a great version of "Beir Meir Bist Du Shein"
[sp] on his Heavy! album).
ken Waxman
- --- Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:30:34PM +1100, Julian
> wrote: This band has just released a Xmas klezmer
cd,
> sounds kind of like the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra
(the guys from Naftule's Dream before they were
Naftule's Dream) doing Xmas carols
> Xmas klezmer?! Oy, gevalt.
> Next they'll be putting lard in the matzo balls :-~
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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 13:35:19 CST
From: "Ben Axelrad" <soulfrieda@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: klezmonauts
Irving Berlin also wrote an Easter song, right? I think I've posted this
before, but Philip Roth in one of his books jokingly (but not without pride
and some malice) proclaims that the Jews had gotten their revenge by
'schlockifying' the major Christian holidays.
Ben
>Considering that three of the most famous Christmas
>songs, if not the most famous ones, were written by
>Jews:
>
>"White Christmas", "The Christmas Song" ("chestnuts
>roasting on an open fire) and "Rudolph, The Red Nosed
>Reindeer", I guess Gentiles need as much musical help
>as they can with their holidays.
>
>(Don't forget, though, that tenor saxophonist Booker
>Ervin did a great version of "Beir Meir Bist Du Shein"
>[sp] on his Heavy! album).
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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:14:28 -0500
From: Steve Smith <ssmith36@sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: klezmonauts
Ben Axelrad wrote:
> Irving Berlin also wrote an Easter song, right?
You're no doubt thinking of the title song from his musical 'Easter Parade'
(the one that goes "In your Easter bonnet / With all the frills upon it"...),
right? Or the tune "Happy Easter" from the same show? The plot of the show
didn't really have that much to do with Easter at all, but the music, like so
much of Berlin's stuff, proved adaptable.
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:40:22 EST
From: Eisenbeil@aol.com
Subject: Forward Energy Concert
JIM RYAN'S, FORWARD ENERGY: NEW YORK EDITION
Jim Ryan (reeds/poetry), J. D. Parren (ts, flutes), Dave Sewelson (bs),
Bruce Eisenbeil (gtr), Jaribu Shahid (b), Andrew Barker (d)
'Forward Energy' makes good on its name by sustaining a compelling momentum
while tearing through the boundries commonly constraining mainstream jazz
ensembles." Derk Richardson, East Bay Express
Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 7 @ 10pm
The Pink Pony is located at 176 Ludlow St. New York City's East Village.
The telephone number is 212-253-1922 and convenient public transportation is
available : F train to second Ave or the J, M, Z to Essex.
Forward Energy begins at 10pm. Tom Abbs band plays at 9pm. There is a
suggested $4 cover.
Since the mid-90s Jim Ryan has been living in Oakland, California and working
with his group Forward Energy. He is deeply involved in the Bay area improv
scene, at all levels. Besides leading his own band, he is involved with
booking several venues and publishing a zine, 'OUTSIDE', devoted to the
music. Last summer he was involved in bringing Alan Silva to the bay area,
and performed with him in the concert held at the Luggage Store Gallery in
San Francisco. He has two CDs out:"Forward Energy atThe Yellow Room," and
"Triptych".
Jim Ryan was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and graduated from the University of
Minnesota in philosphy. He began listening to bebop at about age 15 and took
up the trombone but was forced to abandon it about a year later when his
parents sent him to work in an electrode factory in North Carolina. Nearing
his mid-30's and living in Paris, France he picked up the flute in about '68
and shortly thereafter acquired a c-melody sax. In the early 70's he
participated in a year-long workshop organized and led by Steve Lacy.
Jim formed the "Free Music Formation" about this time, and played in Paris
and other European cities. He returned to the States in 1975 and settled in
Washington D.C. where he formed the Art Performance Group in 1979.
Throughout October and November Jim Ryan is on tour and he comes to NYC on
the heels of some high profile gigs in Chicago. Come on out to hear and
support an experienced improvisor
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