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RE: martin amis - night train (versions of night train)
by Sean Murphy 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

dirty dozen brass band from their live in montreux album. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Garrington [mailto:thegrandguignol@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 4:13 PM To: zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com Cc: ericksna(a)umich.edu Subject: Re: martin amis - night train (versions of night train) Night Train .... .well, this may not be what you're looking for, but there's always been a special place in my heart for the Scofflaws, a great Moon Records ska band. They recorded a version of "Night Train" on their 1991 self-titled album. zorn-list-request(a)mailman.xmission.com wrote: Message: 9 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:36:07 -0500 From: ericksna(a)umich.edu Anyone have any recommendations for versions of the song "Night Train" other than the oscar peterson or james brown versions. I'm trying to put together a collection of these songs to go along with martin Amis' novel of the same name for a gift to a friend (the main character talks about a collection of her own creation with Georgie Fame, James Brown, Oscar Peterson). thanks in advance for any suggestions nathan _____________________________________________________________ "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty." - Benjamin Franklin ____________________________________________________________

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Re: martin amis - night train (versions of night train)
by Matthew Garrington 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Night Train .... .well, this may not be what you're looking for, but there's always been a special place in my heart for the Scofflaws, a great Moon Records ska band. They recorded a version of "Night Train" on their 1991 self-titled album. zorn-list-request(a)mailman.xmission.com wrote:Message: 9 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:36:07 -0500 From: ericksna(a)umich.edu Anyone have any recommendations for versions of the song "Night Train" other than the oscar peterson or james brown versions. I'm trying to put together a collection of these songs to go along with martin Amis' novel of the same name for a gift to a friend (the main character talks about a collection of her own creation with Georgie Fame, James Brown, Oscar Peterson). thanks in advance for any suggestions nathan _____________________________________________________________"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty." - Benjamin Franklin____________________________________________________________

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David Slusser Performance
by Bruno N 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

If you're in San Francisco on the 14 of December, you can catch David Slusser at the following performance -- Sunday, Dec 14 2003 7:30 PM SIMM Series/Outsound Research Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission San Francisco $10 general || $8 Students & Seniors || $5 Artists 'An evening of duos'...featuring (not in the following order): 1) David Slusser:David Slusser was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. He began playing tenor saxophone at age 10, around the same time he started experimenting with reel to reel tape recorders. Getting his first film sound job in 1975, he continued his career with a move to the San Francisco Bay area in 1977, where he joined Lucasfilm in 1984, and received an Emmy award for sound editing in 1993. He has worked often as a music editor for directors Francis Coppola, George Lucas and David Lynch, with whom he has co-composed music for his films. On his own he has composed for documentaries and public radio, as well as his jazz group Rubber City. His sound design is in the collections of both the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contempory Art in Los Angeles, though far more people have heard it in some of the more imaginative commercials on television. He began an association with John Zorn in the mid eighties. Received two prizes in the 1999 Julius Hemphill Composition Awards, including first for jazz orchestra. 2) Alex Yeung: Alex is a guitarist who started his illustrious career in music in the hardcore / punk / metal outfit Morbid Life Society, singing songs against "the man" in the mid-eighties. In the mid-nineties he soon turned to other forms of progressive music with Andre, performing in projects Flojo and Pawn; Both embracing quirky improvisation and unorthodox meters and changes from one nasty phrase to another. He currently composes music for another project against "the man" called Say Bok Qwai; A duo that includes yours truly on the drum set. 3) Scott Looney: Scott R. Looney has been making noises on various instruments since he was about 3 years old, and comes from a long list of Cal Arts alumnus, joining fellow improvisers Adam Lane and Aaron Bennett whom he regularly plays with. He first studied jazz and improvisation in the unlikely cultural atmosphere of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at Coe College under avant trumpeter Paul Smoker, also obtaining his BM in Music Composition. Afterwards, he attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied improvisation under Roscoe Mitchell and Wadada Leo Smith, as well as composition and interactive electronics under David Rosenboom and Morton Subotnick. After graduating with an MFA, Scott moved to New York, where he honed his composition and improvisation skills in sessions with nationally and internationally known improvisers. In the summer of 1996, he moved back to the Left Coast, this time to Oakland, and since then he has been gradually emerging from his shell and becoming more well known as a player, promoter, presenter and supporter of creative music, most notably with his activities involving the Transbay Music Calendar, as well as his house concerts at 1502 Performance Space. Scott has had the pleasure of playing with a large amount of Bay Area improvisers, including Damon Smith, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Bob Marsh, Jim Ryan, Adam Lane, Tom Djll, John Shiurba, Gino Robair, Rent Romus, and of course, Moe!. Recently, he has also played with other visiting national and internationally known improvisers, notably Tony Bevan (UK) (in a trio w/ Damon Smith and a 4tet featuring Jerome Bryerton from Chicago), David Tucker (UK), Jack Wright (Boulder CO), and Boris Hauf (Vienna). In addition to all of these activities, Scott also does studio recording at his home studio in Oakland and elsewhere, and is now currently in the process of becoming even more well known as both an improviser/composer and an engineer. 4) Bob Marsh: Bob Marsh performs regularly on violin, cello, piano, vibraphone, flute, and uses extended vocal techniques. He is the leader of the Emergency String Quartet, the Robot Martians, the Illuminated Orchestra, Opera viva; co-leader of Lucha de Leche with Ernesto Diaz-Infante and member of Aaron Bennett's Nonet and Jim Ryan's Left Coast Improv Group. 5) Ray Schaeffer: Ray Schaeffer currently performs on fret less 6 string , fretted 4 and 8 string basses using a host of electronic effects that are incorporated to be part of the instrument. After studying music theory and upright bass in high school and junior college, Ray has performed in a diverse array of ensembles from full orchestra to folk rock bands, and experimental improv groups going back to the 70s. 6) Philip Everett: Philip M. Everett began playing Drums and Percussion at the age of 13, learning the basics while playing in orchestra and marching band. He played his first professional gig at the age 17 and has been performing in varying musical concepts for over 35 years while taking time to study with George Marsh and Eddie Moore. His main musical influences are Sun Ra, Harry Partch, Karlheinz Stockhausen,Sunny Murray, Anthony Braxton. Literary influences include H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe and Philip K. Dick 7) Tom Nunn: Tom Nunn has designed, built and performed with original musical instruments since 1975, having received a B.Mus. and M.A. in music composition from the University of Texas at Austin and S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook. His instruments typically utilize commonly available materials, are sculptural in appearance, utilize contact microphones for amplification, and are designed specifically for improvisation with elements of ambiguity, unpredictability and nonlinearity. In addition to the more than 50 instruments he has made, Tom has performed extensively throughout the San Francisco Bay Area over the last 20 years, and in Canada and Europe, both as soloist and with other musicians, including the groups ROTODOTI and OFF RAMP, and has appeared on a number of recordings (see DISCOGRAPHY). In 1998, Tom completed writing and self-published WISDOM OF THE IMPULSE: ON THE NATURE OF FREE IMPROVISATION, a book that examines various aspects of this illusive art and presents a theoretical foundation for creative listening, analysis and discussion. Tom has also written a number of articles about the use of experimental instruments and improvisation in publications such as EXPERIMENTAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, MUSICWORKS and LEONARDO. 8) Matt Davignon: Matt Davignon of Oakland, California has been performing and recording his own brand of experimental music for the last 9 years. Primarily self taught, he creates most of his music (both live and recorded) through improvisation, often imitating everyday sound phenomena or focusing on often-overlooked aural characteristics. Matt does not own or seek expensive equipment. He prefers to make do with what is already within reach. Instruments he uses include turntable, tape, sampling/looping devices, cd, found objects, field recordings, prepared acoustic guitar, keyboard, slide whistles and vocal sounds. _________________________________________________________________ Groove on the latest from the hot new rock groups! 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Re: Ornette Coleman with Greg Cohen
by Patrice L. Roussel 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Talking about Greg Cohen. Does anybody know if Erik or Mark are part of the string section on the new James Carter CD (GARDENIAS FOR LADY DAY)? Thanks, Patrice.

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David Slusser albums??
by Efrén del Valle 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Hi, I was wondering if David Slusser has published anything under his own name other than the excellent "Delight At The End Of The Tunnel" on Tzadik. I remember he used to have a website (don't know if it was official) but I've been unable to find it in repeated searches. Do Rubber City have any recordings available (if any)? Thanks in advance. Best, EfrÃ©n del Valle n.p: Morton Subotnik "Silver Apples of the Moon" _______________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sorteos Â¡Ya puedes comprar LoterÃa de Navidad! http://yahoo.ventura24.es/

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attn: Richard Gardner
by CuneiWay＠aol.com 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Hello Richard I hope you are still on this list? Please email me OFF list at: steve(a)cuneiformrecords.com I need to speak with you (good stuff!) Steve Feigenbaum

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Re: Ornette Coleman with Greg Cohen
by Stuart Boyer 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Let us not forget the countless times Mr. Cohen has recorded with Tom Waits. Please add one more flight to those steps ! Thanks, Stu Joseph Zitt <jzitt(a)metatronpress.com> To: Zorn-list <zorn-list(a)lists.xmission.com> Sent by: cc: zorn-list-bounces(a)mailman.x Subject: Ornette Coleman with Greg Cohen mission.com 11/24/2003 03:32 AM A post to the Ornette list pointed to an article in Sunday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram. http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/7332706.htm The info of most probable interest here is that Greg Cohen is now recording with him in a two-bass quartet with another bassist whose name doesn't ring a ball, Tony Falanga, and Denardo Coleman on drums. Those who play with Coleman must stay on their toes because the music moves in so many directions. That's why Cohen, who has played with Bill Frisell, John Zorn and Dave Douglas, jumped at the chance to work with him. "Just when you've climbed one flight of stairs, there's another one to climb," he said. "You don't get stagnant as a musician." _______________________________________________ zorn-list mailing list zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list

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sex mob web page
by Julian 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Something kind of interesting... It seems the Sex Mob web page (www.sexmob.com) which I have visited before (and let me assure you it *was* about the band!) has now been taken by a porn site... anyone know if the band has a different address now?

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Koch / upcoming zorn releases
by Rich Ladew 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Greetings Zornlisters: I wanted to thank everyone on the list for the Koch info. Seems like I'll be stalking this site before the official one for release updates. I was remarking to a fellow Zorn enthusiast off-list what a pain it's became to try and wait for new info on tzadik.com. I was all excited after the end of Zorn month b/c It had been over 2 months since the last update. I thought there would be more of a release schedule on the official site, but the last update on Oct. 22 offered Slim Pickens (not the actor) IMHO. Did anyone else get the 2003 Tzadik brochure from Downtown or anywhere else? Where's the electric masada? Where's the Naked City vol 2? Where's the recordings of the work the NY times was writing about a few weeks back? Don't get me wrong, I love other Tzadik artists, too... But c'mon Zorn let us LINE YOUR POCKETS more! Put out more official releases for us to buy! I respect the work as an artist and the creative process, I'm just too damn curious and impatient I suppose. Oh well. Sorry for the rant. NP: Cave-In Mailing List sampler / Wendy Carlos "Tron O.S.T" NR: Devil's Knot Mara Leveritt (Free The West Memphis Free) Rich Ladew r.richardladew(a)comcast.net

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Re: john cage??????
by Arthur Gadney 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Sorry, that turned out not to be Tzadik I guess, but some other label >From: Nudebruno(a)aol.com >To: zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com, a_gadney(a)hotmail.com >Subject: john cage?????? >Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:46:14 EST > >So this is the only the Tzadik releases which anybody here know about, >right? > >Ayuo 1/20/04 > >Yoshida & Fujii 1/20/04 > >Fred Frith 1/20/04 > >Rodd Keith 1/20/04 > >Jenny Scheinman 1/20/04 > >John Cage 1/20/04 > >Have I missed something with the John Cage listing? I couldn't see this >one. > >bruno _________________________________________________________________ Say goodbye to busy signals and slow downloads with a high-speed Internet connection! Prices start at less than $1 a day average. https://broadband.msn.com (Prices may vary by service area.)

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