Did you know Freddie Hubbard did a record with electroacoustic elements ? Has anyone heard it? i'd like to know other folk's oppinions on it.

It's jazz with electronics, not à la saint germain but it could fit in the genre... let me talk a little about this album, i think it's very weird and has very interesting and even beautiful moments.

The thing is called "sing me a song of songmy" for atlantic records, he made it with a man called Ilhan Mimaroglu, and was recorded in 1971, it has a Picasso painting in the cover ("massacre in Korea"), so you can imagine the theme: basically it's an antiwar concept album. Hubbard trumpet playing is very very good and moody/thrilling, as records from the same period , kenny barron on piano, art booth on bass, junio cook on tenor sax and louis hayes on drums.

But it also has tape effects, synthetized playing and organ (remind me a little bit of some kr. komeda's soundtracks) and processed sounds by this ilhan mimaroglu guy (a musique concrète composer), strange strings arrangements, chorus and recited poems. It's an experiment with electroacoustic music and jazz like I really never heard.

The text recited includes Kierkegaard's excertps, che guevara's words, and poems from people i don't know like "ÑHA-KHÊ", things like "fbi, cia, tradition, army" and after a hubbard solo.
And it begins with a song, a kind of ode to sharon tate , with  words "sampled", I don't know if it's from charles manson's family , but sounds very twisted, after this reciting there are sad violins... this reciting has been later sampled by meat beat manifesto in his song "she's unreal" in the subliminal sandwich album.
You can read in the inner notes-collage things like "Brahms not bombs", "Drugs are like religion. With both, you can convince yourself of things which may not be real", "every man should be his own" "things are more meaningful when placed in a context different from the one they assumedly belong" ...

It's a bizarre album , (if I have to think of something similar only some zorn work comes to my mind, like some songs from jeu des dames cruelles) and although belonging to his era, unique to whatever else i listened, so i think it deserves a check!!!!

if you have heard it please give me yr advice!!

it's my first message in zorn's list, hope it's not too long : P