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New New York Art Quartet at Willisau (JZ content)
by Thierry Raguin 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

Hi everyone! I just came back from Willisau where the New New York Art Quartet, featuring John Zorn, was playing. There were two short concerts in the afternoon (around 1 1/2 hour each). The first concert was a Swiss band called Lucas Niggli's Big Zoom with Lucas Niggli (drums, percussion), Nils Wogram (trombone), Philipp Schaufelberger (guitar), and Claudio Puntin (clarinet, bass clarinet) and Peter Herbert (double-bass) as special guests. It was trully amazing!!! This band is really really impressing. All musicians were great, especially Nils Wogram (who also played yesterday with Fred Frith and Aki Takase): this young guy is really promissing. Although the two guests were also amazing (at some point, Puntin reminded me of how Zorn is playing), I would have liked to see just the trio: they really know each other very well and the addition of two players to the band was limiting their play. They wrote the whole music down and thus improvised less. They didn't go as far as they would have if they were just three. Too bad... But their performance was still great! The NNYAQ (Milford Graves: drums and percussion - Roswell Rudd: trombone - Reggie Workman: double-bass - John Zorn: alto sax) started very slowly. They entered on stage one by one. First Workman playing a little bass solo (this guy has extremely long fingers!), then Rudd and Graves... Quite nice but nothing great... Then came Zorn and the whole show started. For old guys, they really kicked ass! And you could really see the chemistry and respect between the musicians: at some point, Zorn was not playing and he was sitting and looking at the others with a giant smile on his face. Later, Graves started to sing something like "Mama John Zorn" (!) and went dancing and crawling at Zorn's feet. Then he jumped out of the scene and started to dance among the audience. At this point, Zorn stopped playing and took pictures of Graves from a camera he took out of his pocket! Really funny to watch! Of course, musically speaking, it was also great, lots of improvisation, technically flawless, with some nice strange ideas (Workman blowing in a big plastic tube stucked behind the strings of his bass, Rudd playing with a towel on his trombone, etc.). Both concerts were trully great and I'm really glad I was there (and I managed to buy tons of CDs there :') ). - TR PS: sorry, this message might arrive twice. I sent it previously with another e-mail address. Ups :')

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New release questions and info
by Robert Pleshar 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

Hi, I saw this on the Koch web site. Anyone have any more info? YOSHIHIDE, Otomo NEW JAZZ QUIN... Jazz New Jazz Quintet Live 09/24/2002 Diw DIW-CD-942 Also, saw this, some of which is known about already I'm sure: 1 SMITH, Wadada Leo Avant-garde Luminous Axis 11/26/2002 Tzadik TZA-CD-7083 2 BURGER, Rob Avant-garde Lost Photograph 11/26/2002 Tzadik TZA-CD-7170 3 HIRSCH, Shelley Avant-garde Far In Far Out 11/26/2002 Tzadik TZA-CD-7705 4 DENYER, Frank Avant-garde Fired City 10/22/2002 Tzadik TZA-CD-7082 5 ZAMIR, Daniel Jazz Children Of Israel 10/22/2002 Tzadik TZA-CD-7169 6 PAIN KILLER Avant-garde Talisman - Live In Nagoya 10/22/2002 Tzadik TZA-CD-7342 7 BAPTISTA, Cyro World/brazil Beat The Donkey 10/22/2002 Tzadik TZA-CD-7608 8 QIN, Eric Avant-garde Photographs 09/24/2002 Tzadik TZA-CD-7081 9 ZORN, John Avant-garde Filmworks Xiii 09/24/2002 Tzadik TZA-CD-7341 10 HORVITZ, Wayne Jazz Circus 09/24/2002 Tzadik TZA-CD-7514 I'm excitied about more Leo Smith and Shelley Hirsch. Rob

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Re: Trane's later years
by Steve Smith 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:40:14 -0700 "Patrice L. Roussel" <proussel(a)ichips.intel.com> wrote: >Anyway, there is a thread on rec.bluenote >announcing a 2xCD of A LOVE SUPREME >(the complete session, I would guess, with Art >Davis and Archie Shepp). I will >definitely jump on it and I am pretty sure that I >will love it. According to everything I've read, the set will include the original studio recording of 'A Love Supreme' and the single live performance of the entire suite from Antibes that's been available as a bootleg for some time now, along with "previously unreleased material." Until now, I hadn't seen anything that definitively asserted the two movements of 'A Love Supreme' recorded with Davis added, one of which also included Shepp, would be be that "previously unreleased material," but nothing else makes sense and the note from Jack Lefton on rmb seems to confirm it, since he's quoting the Verve website. (I confess I left rmb some time ago). Despite equally persistent rumors to the contrary, I've always assumed that those tracks still existed, and in an interview last year, Shepp told me a Japanese collector had played them for him! Here's hoping that it's finally true -- though having said that, I'm not sure just what Shepp (a player and thinker I admire greatly) would bring to 'A Love Supreme.' Now Pharoah, that would have been something else entirely... Wonder what else Ravi Coltrane's got kicking around in the closet and under the bed (which is where most of these new tapes are coming from)? Steve Smith ssmith36(a)sprynet.com NP - Maurice Ravel, 'Daphnis et Chloe' - Cleveland Orch/Maazel (Decca)

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Re: Taylor/Dixon/Oxley
by Kurt Gottschalk 31 Aug '02

31 Aug '02

i heard it when they performed and recorded it, and i'm sure i'm not the only one surprised they released it. interested, tho, to hear it. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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