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one more quote from francis davis
by mwisckol＠ocregister.com 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

in the francis davis story, this line (written by davis -- not a quote) caused me pause -- it seems to fall exactly on the line separating profound and absurd: The composer and arranger Billy Strayhorn was a notable exception (to the apparently all straight jazz world of the time), but he was perfectly happy to spend his career in Duke Ellington's shadow, which was the same as being in the closet.

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VoiceWAVE perform Zitt's "feldMorph" and "Tapas", Sept 10, 2002, Oakland, CA, US
by Joseph Zitt 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

Tuesday September 10th: Joseph Zitt and VoiceWAVE Morgan Guberman and Exotic Zoology VoiceWAVE is a new vocal ensemble exploring the possibilities for expression and communication in structured improvisation. For this performance, VoiceWAVE includes: Tom Bickley J. D. Buhl Brad Fischer Bob Marsh Matthew Priest Jesse Quattro Aurora Rising Katherine Setar Caroline Smith Joseph Zitt The performance will include the West Coast premiere of Joseph Zitt's score "feldMorph", as well as his "Tapas", which has also been performed by the Cornelius Cardew Choir and by other groups around the country. Both scores appear in Zitt's book "Surprise Me with Beauty: the Music of Human Systems" (http://www.josephzitt.com/books/smwb.php) "feldMorph" was composed as a tribute to the music of Morton Feldman, in an attempt to emulate his music through improvisational methods. "Tapas" creates a rapidly-changing set of improvisations by different subsets of the group. Joseph Zitt's vocal performance combines a background in traditional synagogue and world musics with a mastery of extended vocal techniques. While he often approaches performance non-verbally, focusing on the vocal sounds themselves rather than the meanings of words, he also includes moving and surprising uses of text in work that straddles the line between music and poetry. In his solo and ensemble performances and workshops, he works to create music that is both complex and clear, exemplifying the best that each person can bring to free and structured improvisation. He has performed in a wide variety of solo and ensemble contexts, including performing with the ensemble Comma in Pauline Oliveros's "Lunar Opera" at Lincoln Center in New York City, and with the ensemble Gray Code at the Knitting Factory in New York and at the 2001 Vision Festival in Washington, DC. His nationwide tour in January 2002 included a week in the Bay Area working on his scores with the Cornelius Cardew choir, which inspired his recent move to Berkeley. Since arriving, he has performed at the Luggage Store Gallery Company Nights, the TransBay Skronkathon, at the Artship Wave 9 release event at 21 Grand, and, in collaboration with Mapa Mundi, at the Berkeley Arts Center. His most recent recording is Artship CD 18, "rats, maybe ghosts". Morgan Guberman is also on the program, performing his "Exotic Zoology", a solo improvisation with a barrage of instrumentation. Morgan Guberman is a composer/performer/improviser of both instrumental and electronic solo and chamber music. His music has recieved radio play throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Russia, Australia, and Japan. His primary instruments are the contrabass, voice, piano, electronics, and various percussive devices, including found objects. Collaborative efforts have been made with filmmakers, dancers, and performance artists. The Black Box Located at 1928 Telegraph Avenue Oakland CA 94612 bet. 19 & 20 St. Downtown Oakland 1 block from 19 St BART Tele: 510-451-1932 wheelchair accessable All shows start at 7:59PM, 42 seconds. All shows are on a Tuesday. Admission is $6-$1540 sliding scale <A HREF="http://www.blackboxoakland.com/">http://www.blackboxoakland.com</ A> -- | josephzitt(a)josephzitt.com http://www.josephzitt.com/ | | http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt/ http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt/ | | == New book: Surprise Me with Beauty: the Music of Human Systems == | | Comma / Gray Code Silence: the John Cage Discussion List |

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Re: Sonic youth + zorn
by Ricardo Jorge 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

Cobra with O'rourke???? wich release was that?

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RE: Closing of the American Mind
by josephneff 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

Hello, .... for those interested there is an essay by Curtis White regarding one of Bloom's books at the Dalkey Archive site. www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no7/white.html I remain... Joseph NP: Paul Butterfield Blues Band- "East-West Live" NR: Jack Kerouac- "Some of the Dharma"

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Fwd: Re: Sonic youth + zorn
by Efrén del Valle 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

Hi, Cobra with O'rourke???? > wich release was that? Think it's the latest on Tzadik if my memory serves. Talking about O'Rourke, I finally found something by him that's worth the money imho: the EP "Halfway to a Threeway" is a lovely folk/pop album, perfect for The Sea and Cake/Tortoise/Sam Prekop lovers. Absolutely delightful! Best, EfrÃ©n del Valle _______________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Nueva versiÃ³n: Webcam, voz, y mucho mÃ¡s Â¡Gratis! DescÃ¡rgalo ya desde http://messenger.yahoo.es

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re: ALS deluxe edition
by florid oratory 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

from the coltrane list: > since no one else has posted this info yet, here's the > track list for the upcoming release: > >> Disc One >> Acknowledgement 7:43 >> Resolution 7:18 >> Pursuance/Psalm 10:41/7:04 >> >> Disc Two >> Intro by Andre Francis (live) 1:14 >> Acknowledgement (live) 6:12 >> Resolution (live) 11:37 >> Pursuance (live) 21:31 >> Psalm (live) 8:47 >> Resolution (alt) 7:22 >> Resolution (breakdown) 2:11 >> Acknowledgement (alt) 9:09 >> Acknowledgement (alt) 9:23 >> >> John Coltrane - tenor sax, vocal (d1, t1) >> Archie Sheep - tenor sax (d2, t8&9) >> McCoy Tyner - piano >> Art Davis - bass (d2, t8&9) >> Jimmy Garrison - bass >> Elvin Jones - drums >> >> Release date is 10/29. >

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JazzSaalfelden review pt 2
by Vincent Kargatis 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

[part 2 of 2] SUNDAY, 25.08.02 14:30 JEWELS AND BINOCULARS "The music of Bob Dylan" Netherlands, USA Michael Moore: saxophone, clarinete Lindsay Horner: bass Michael Vatcher: drums Nice, but overly pleasant - no surprises in the music, to me. Every tune pretty much sounded like faithful, groovy folk-jazz. Horner almost constantly vamped. Too safe for my tastes. I hadn't heard the album, and expected more from this trio. 16:00 DANIEL HUMAIR "Liberté Surveilée" France, USA Daniel Humair: drums Marc Ducret: guitars Bruno Chevillon: bass Ellery Eskelin: tenor saxophone Was looking forward to this, having liked the Sketch cd, and they did play well. Ellery sounded off his game on the first solo, but sounded much better on the second tune (though for some reason Humair and Chevillon seemed to keeping that solo from getting out like it was trying to). Ellery is a bit the odd man out here - the trio is really locked in together, and they sounded good. Ducret put in another strong performance, and the drum/bass tandem was constantly entwined. Overall, they seemed to hover just beneath really tearing it up, but I'm guessing that was due to the rather uncomfortably warm temperature in the tent around this time. Bleah. 17:30 FAST'N BULBOUS: The Captain Beefheart Project feat. Gary Lucas and Phillip Johnston USA Gary Lucas: guitar Jesse Krakow: bass Richard Dworkin: drums Phillip Johnston: alto saxophone, arranger Rob Henke: trumpet Joe Fiedler: trombone Dave Sewelson: bariton saxophone The worst sound of the festival - volume too high, and the mix way too sibilant and bright. Really annoyed me. Another "party music" entry - big, fast, loud arrangements of Beefheart tunes. Decent overall, though I would have preferred more pure blowing, as these are good blowing tunes. I listened to most of it from the food area, as it sounded so loud and bad. 19:00 SEPTETO ROBERTO JUAN RODRIGUEZ feat. David Krakauer "El Danzon de Moises" USA Brad Jones: bass Marcus Rojas: tuba Mary Wooten: cello Meg Okura: violin David Krakauer: clarinet Ted Reichman: accordion Roberto Rodriguez: percussion Perhaps the biggest hit of the festival - this was wonderfully fun Jewish/Cuban music, with the awesome sound of Krakauer on top. The crowd loved it. 20:30 URI CAINE Bedrock USA Uri Caine: piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano Tim Lefebvre: bass Zach Danziger: drums and additional sounds (forget his name - wasn't listed): turntables I was skeptical when this started - Uri noodling on the Fender Rhodes, it initially sounded like him doing MMW. But man, Danziger started in with some laptop techno/club type sequences, and drummed like mad on top, and I was totally won over with the sheer hyperkinetic antics of this group. Majorly infectious. ========== SHORT CUTS (afternoon gigs in a smaller venue) o MEPHISTA Ikue Mori, Sylvie Courvoisier, Susie Ibarra This was pretty good free improv, with Ikue on laptop, and Courvoisier playing half in, half out the piano. Good interplay. o NIGHT Misha Alperin, Anja Lechner, Hans-Kristian Kjos Sorensen A charming mostly composed folk-classical-type suite, piano/cello/percussion. Pretty inventive writing, and well-executed. There were a couple fairly lame turntable gigs that I don't feel like writing about. Unfortunately, I arrived to late to hear the Amsterdam String Trio and a Patrick Pulsinger group that feature Werner Dafeldecker, Franz Hautzinger, and Boris Hauf (which sounded from the personnel like it would have been the most experimental of the festival concerts). Oh well. ========== So, the tally: Really liked: Lucas Niggli Tim Berne Roberto Juan Rodriguez Uri Caine Enjoyed: Billy Bang Muthspiel bros. John Scofield Daniel Humair OK: Martin Koller Dejohnette/Suso Lacaille/Brozman Eric Truffaz Jewels and Binoculars Fast 'n' Bulbous Nonplussed or disliked: Bugge Wesseltoft Sussan Deyhim Hm, 50%. Not so great. Regarding booking, I really think quality would improve if they'd concentrated on quality while keeping with their attempts at variety, particularly with the 'party' stuff. Gigs like Scofield, Rodriguez, and Caine were both major crowd-pleasers and interesting music. Seems to me those would have been enough to sustain a reasonable-sized crowd looking for a "good time", while freeing up more room for real variety and substantive music (than some of the other gigs). But that's just mho. -- Vincent Kargatis np: Thelonious Monk - "I Surrender, Dear" (Brilliant Corners)

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Davis story's purpose
by Parry Gettelman 05 Sep '02

05 Sep '02

<<<davis wasn't writing about zorn, of course, and most of my examples would be outside his musical world. but when i finished the piece, i was left wondering why he wrote it.>>>> So many editors love those kinds of "trend" stories, and as far as I can tell, all the better if there's really nothing to say. That's the kind of nonsense the features editor used to put up on the bulletin board when I was at a daily. I think 98% of the readers would rather have more record reviews than those bloated pseudo-analytical treatises. Favorite new things: Jenny Scheinman's "The Rabbi's Lover" and Steven Bernstein's "Diaspora Blues" w/ Sam Rivers, Doug Mathews and Anthony Cole. The horn-quartet portions of Diaspora Blues are just stunning. Parry

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One more quote from Samuel Delany
by William Crump 04 Sep '02

04 Sep '02

>From: "Benito Vergara" <bvergara(a)sfsu.edu> > > [Someone had asked about "Dhalgren" earlier, > > It seems like a fairly straightforward narrative, except these odd moments > are occurring more and more often. I can't go into detail about what these > "odd moments" are -- I'd have to quote them to fully describe them, and that > would be spoiling it -- but they essentially made me re-read the sentence, > wondering if I got it right. Sometimes I'd read entire sections and wonder > if I'd actually read them before, as if my bookmark was misplaced. > After reading "Dhalgren" ten or so times over twenty or so years, I still have that reaction. Years after reading it for the first time, I read his memoir, "The Motion of Light in Water," and much of his output of fiction clicked into focus. He's written an amazing body of work, from some really tender and beautiful stuff to "Hogg" and "Equinox." And I'm still waiting for "The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities," damn it. William Crump

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sideshow
by Kurt Gottschalk 04 Sep '02

04 Sep '02

someone said recently they thought sideshow might be defunct. they're playing bam cafe (brooklyn), with john hollenbeck's excellent claudia quinteton dec. 13. cheers. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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