From: owner-zorn-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (Zorn List Digest) To: zorn-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: Zorn List Digest V2 #905 Reply-To: zorn-list Sender: owner-zorn-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-zorn-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk Zorn List Digest Wednesday, April 5 2000 Volume 02 : Number 905 In this issue: - koji asano: who is he? Re: Zorn on Raymond Scott new cecil taylor, brotz.....and coupons for everyone! Re: koji asano: who is he? Re: country & western / bluegrass / thank you! Ra Ra Disney Re: Zorn research paper Re: koji asano: who is he? Re: koji asano: who is he? Re: koji asano: who is he? Re: Sun Ra Re: Doc Watson Mark Dresser US Tour jim black/berne Re: Doc Watson Re: new cecil taylor, brotz.....and coupons for everyone! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:45:52 GMT From: "Scott Handley" Subject: koji asano: who is he? The Verge April update lists a whole slew of CD releases by someone named Koji Asano, all on the Spanish SOLSTICE label. He looks like an experimental composer who works with traditional and new instrumentation, and does evade noise. Can anyone give me some info on him, and let me know what these discs are like? thanks, - ----s ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 00:51:36 -0400 From: "ADM" Subject: Re: Zorn on Raymond Scott yes allow me to be the first person to mention how awesome this new Raymond Scott CD/Book package is. Go get it now if you are even remotely interested in Raymond Scott. You will not be disappointed. - -Aaron - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:55:04 GMT From: "Scott Handley" Subject: new cecil taylor, brotz.....and coupons for everyone! I should have consolidated all this in my last post, but: How is the (not that) new Cecil Taylor, NAILED, with Oxley, Barry Guy, and Evan Parker? How is the thankfully reissued THREE POINTS AND A MOUNTAIN by the fabled Brotzmann/van Hove/Bennink trio? If I dug LIVE IN BERLIN 1971, would I like THREE POINTS? Finally, at the risk of propagating spammish bandwaste, coupons can be found at the following site, for places like CDnow: http://finditnow.8m.com I've been using the CDnow and Barnes and Noble couppons for some time now; it seems legit and is a great way to save a little cash. - ------s ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:21:04 EDT From: JonAbbey2@aol.com Subject: Re: koji asano: who is he? In a message dated 4/5/00 12:46:49 AM, c123018@hotmail.com writes: << The Verge April update lists a whole slew of CD releases by someone named Koji Asano, all on the Spanish SOLSTICE label. He looks like an experimental composer who works with traditional and new instrumentation, and does evade noise. Can anyone give me some info on him, and let me know what these discs are like? >> not a lot of info is available about him. I belive Solstice is his own label, and he moved to Spain from Japan in the last year or two. I've heard parts or all of about six of these discs, and there's really not too much to them. the bulk of the discs are piano-based, and he plays in a lo-fi amateurish minimalist style. not worth your time, if you ask me. there's some reviews at the Motion site (http://motion.state51.co.uk/). Jon www.erstwhilerecords.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:54:23 -0600 From: malczewski@earthlink.net (Frank Malczewski) Subject: Re: country & western / bluegrass / thank you! Hey, I'm a little behind (and haven't read all of this thread yet), but haven't seen anyone mention Doc Watson yet... I'd defer to someone more intimate with his work (and current catalog), but not being one to particularly like much from these genres, Doc is (was?) a notable exception for me. -- Frank Malczewski - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:58:14 -0400 From: "Lev \"Ljova\" Zhurbin" Subject: Ra Ra Disney Hi. With this latest infusion of Sun Ra recommendations, I wanted if someone could elaborate briefly on the Disney (?) Album that Sun Ra made. It was highly recommended to be by a friend of mine today, but I'm not sure what it's called, what to expect, etc... Thanks, Ljova - -------- Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin L@Ljova.com http://www.Ljova.com/ Listen to my music: http://www.mp3.com/LevZhurbin (compositions) http://www.mp3.com/Ljova (improvisations) "Do not fear mistakes - there are none." -Miles Davis - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:30:25 -0400 From: myke cuthbert Subject: Re: Zorn research paper MethodKev@aol.com wrote on Apr 4: > I'm currently working on a research paper on John Zorn for my history of Jazz > class. I was wondering if anyone could point me towards any books with > sections written about or by John Zorn (im not allowed to use internet > sources). Any help would be appreciated, and if people would like it, ill > put the paper on the list when im done. > If this is general information, you can just send it straight to me at > Methodkev@aol.com > Thanks in advance. This is part of a bibliography I used in a recent short paper on Jewish aspects of Zorn's recent works. There are some more entries on Patrice Roussel's great discography (see below) and it's not as jazz oriented as I would want it to be if I had free range over the topic. Myke Cuthbert cuthbert@hcs.harvard.edu - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Department of Music, Harvard University John Knowles Paine Hall Cambridge, Mass. 02138 http://hcs.harvard.edu/~cuthbert/ - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bailey, Derek. Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music. 2nd edition. London: British Library National Sound Archive, 1992. Blumenfeld, Larry. Response to Adam Shatz, "Crossing Music's Borders" (q.v.). The New York Times, 17 October 1999. p. AR4. Blumenfeld, Larry and John Zorn. "John Zorn: Scene by Scene." Jazziz 16.8 (August 1999). http://www.jazziz.com/current/pages/feature/John_Zorn.html. Douglas, Dave. Response to Adam Shatz, "Crossing Music's Borders" (q.v.). The New York Times, 17 October 1999. p. AR4. Duckworth, William. Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers. New York: Schrimer, 1995. Gagne, Cole. Soundpieces 2: Interviews With American Composers. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993. pp. 507-542. Graves, Jamie. "The Unofficial John Zorn Homepage." Internet website: http://members.tripod.com/~jfgraves/zorn-index.html. Last modified 23 December 1999. Kaplan, Fred. "Horn of Plenty: The composer who knows no boundaries." The New Yorker, 14 June 1999. pp. 84-90. Lange, Arte with John Zorn. "Der Architekt der Spiele; Gespra:ch mit John Zorn U:ber seine musikalischen Regelsysteme" ("The Architect of the Game: A Conversation with John Zorn about his System of Musical Rules"). Translated into German by Peter Nikas Wilson. Neue Zeitschrift fu:r Musik, February 1991. pp. 33-37. Larkin, Colin, editor. "Zorn, John," in The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Third edition, 8 volumes. London: Muze, 1998. vol. 8, p. 6003. McNeilly, Kevin. "Ugly Beauty: John Zorn and the Politics of Postmodern Music." Postmodern Culture, 5.2 (January 1995). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/toc/pmcv005.html. Milkowski, Bill. Response to Adam Shatz, "Crossing Music's Borders" (q.v.). The New York Times, 17 October 1999. p. AR4. Novick, Peter. The Holocaust in American Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Pareles, Jon. "Klezmer Keeps Growing: Was That Beethoven?" The New York Times, 7 March 1998. p. B9. Roussel, Patrice. "Discography of John Zorn." Internet website: http://www.nwu.edu/jazz/artists/zorn.john/discog.html. October 1998. Shatz, Adam. "Crossing Music's Borders In Search Of Identity; Downtown, a Reach For Ethnicity." The New York Times, 3 October 1999. Strickland, Edward. American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1991. pp. 124-140. Wilson, Peter Niklas. "Fru:chte des (John) Zorn: Improvisierte Musik im Zeitalter der Simulation" ("Fruit of Anger [Zorn=Anger]: Improvised Music in the Age of Simulation"). Neue Zeitschrift fu:r Musik, February 1991. pp. 40-43. Wolk, Douglas. "Beyond the Fringe: The Knitting Factory's Jewish New-Music Scene." Village Voice 43:18 (5 May 98). pp. 74-75. Wong, Deborah. "Thai Cassettes and Their Covers: Two Case Histories." Asian Music 21.1 (Fall/Winter 1989/1990). pp. 78-104. Yaffe, David. "Avant-trad." Village Voice 42:22 (3 June 1997). p. 55. __________. "Sweat Shop." Concert Review. Village Voice 43:27 (7 July 1998). p. 112. Zerubavel, Yael. Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. zorn-list. Various contributors. zorn-list@lists.xmission.com. Subscription requests, archival information, and frequently asked questions at http://www.browbeat.com/zornlist.html - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 06:54:18 -0400 From: "Caleb T. Deupree" Subject: Re: koji asano: who is he? At 04:45 AM 4/5/00 GMT, Scott Handley wrote: >The Verge April update lists a whole slew of CD releases by someone named >Koji Asano, all on the Spanish SOLSTICE label. He looks like an >experimental composer who works with traditional and new instrumentation, >and does evade noise. Can anyone give me some info on him, and let me know >what these discs are like? I've picked up two of them, Sunshine Filtering Through Foliage is all sort of feedback electronics, very similar to Arcane Device, and not too bad (and no piano at all). I later got Monsoon, which was recommended by a Wire review, and have still had a hard time getting into it. It sounds like he laid paper across the strings of the piano then hit the same notes over and over. I can't really recommend Monsoon, but Sunshine isn't bad at all. - -- Caleb Deupree cdeupree@erinet.com It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. - -- Raymond Chandler - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:32:11 +0000 From: Simon Hopkins Subject: Re: koji asano: who is he? We've got several soundfile-accompanied reviews of Koji's work on motion, which should make things a little clearer: http://motion.state51.co.uk Cheers Simon - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:32:36 +0200 From: Stephen Fruitman Subject: Re: koji asano: who is he? I wrote one of the Motion reviews and for the most part, rather dug _Preparing for April_, his next-to-last release. He also just sent me his latest, _Momentum_, but this one leaves me stone cold: the sound of a microphone hovering between two speakers and creating mmm-mmm sounds and feedback. Colour me perplexed. According to his bio, he=B4s relatively young (born in the seventies), been indeed residing in Barcelona for several years, has fifteen albums of various sorts of electronic and acoustic experiments to his credit, and does some installation work, too. Soon in Tokyo with some similarly-minded artists. All the best, Stephen - ------------------------------------------- Bj=F6rn Olsson, Inst. f=F6r id=E9historia, Ume=E5 universitet 901 87 Ume=E5 tel. 090-7867982 fax 143374 e-post: bjorn.olsson@idehist.umu.se - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 07:27:19 -0700 From: Daryl Loomis Subject: Re: Sun Ra I feel like "Heliocentric Worlds" is my favorite, with the "Concert for the Comet Kohotek" coming in a close second. However, there is a new (or reissued? I'm not sure) CD called "The Sun Ra Arkestra meets Salah Ragab in Egypt" on Leo Lab's Golden Years Label. It's live from 74-75 and very good. It seems pretty accessible to an uninitiated person, and probably most accessible to a world music fan. Daryl Loomis drl@valley-media.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 07:31:03 -0700 From: Daryl Loomis Subject: Re: Doc Watson In my opinion, Doc Watson is one of the best flat-pickers ever. I love some of his song. However, on all the albums of his that I've heard, there are sooooo many stories (which I don't find terribly funny) that I find myself fast-forwarding through half the album. Be that as it may, he has some great albums. His album with his son Merle is my favorite, just stay away from his children's music albums. Daryl Loomis drl@valley-media.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:52:52 EDT From: Reaboi@aol.com Subject: Mark Dresser US Tour ** Mark Dresser Trio and Video Project Tour ** featuring Denman Maroney-hyper-piano, Matthias Ziegler-flutes, and Mark Dresser-bass and composition In April, Mark Dresser will perform a stateside tour which includes the U.S. premier of a contemporary silent video by the Kunst Brothers--a collaboration with acclaimed video artist Tom Leeser and celebrated sculptor Alison Saar. This new work made expressly for Mr. Dresser's composition "Subtonium," will be performed live with video. The trio will also perform recent original music composed for the silent film collaboration of Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, "Un Chien Andalou." This music was released on the 1998 Knitting Factory release Eye'll Be Seeing You. The evening will be structured in two parts. The first part with videos and trio and the second half a concert of new music for trio alone. April 6 Concert Venue: Trafalmadore Cafe address: 100 Theatre Place Main St, Downtown Buffalo phone: T: 716 851 8725 fax: F: 716 881-0452 concert time 8PM April 7 Venue: Hot House address: 31 E. Balbo,Chicago, IL t: 312 362 9707 f: 312.362.9708 website:www.hothouse.net Concert time 8:PM April 8 Venue: MacKenzie Fine Arts Center Henry Ford Community College address:. 5101 Evergreen, Dearborn, MI t: 313-845-9676 concert at 9PM April 9 Venue:Drinko Recital Hall, located in Cleveland State University's Music & Communication Center, 2001Euclid Ave. The concert is part of our Sundown Jazz Concert Series and is free and open to the public. T: 216 371 8897 f: concert time: 4PM April 10 Venue: Northern Illinois University, Recital Hall- Music Bldg. address:. De Kalb t: 815 753 8010 f: contact person:Mel Warner concert at 6:30 Friday, April 14, Venue: Kleinart/James Arts Center-34 Tinker St. address:. Center-34 Tinker St. Woodstock, NY t: 914 679 2079 concert at 8PM Saturday April 15 Venue: MASS MoCA address:. 87 Marshall St. North Adams, MA 0214 t: 413 684 4481 f: 413 663 8348 concert at 7:30 Sunday April 16, Venue: Central Presbyterian Church of Montclair $15 reception will follow for info calladdress:. 46 Park St Montclair,NJ t: 973.655.1830 concert at 7:30PM - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 07:56:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Hywel Davies Subject: jim black/berne any thoughts on the new releases with jim black on drums; carlos bica/azul - Twist(enja) cuong vu - Bound also, the bbc radio 3 jazz prog. at 23.30 on sat 15 april ,will broadcast a gig by Berne's big satan; if it's on the web, you can listen at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:36:41 EDT From: DRoyko@aol.com Subject: Re: Doc Watson In a message dated 00-04-05 10:28:28 EDT, DRL@valley-media.com writes: >In my opinion, Doc Watson is one of the best flat-pickers ever. I love some >of his song. However, on all the albums of his that I've heard, there are >sooooo many stories (which I don't find terribly funny) that I find myself >fast-forwarding through half the album. Try "Riding the Midnight Train," on Sugar Hill. Doc's one and only actual bluegrass album, with Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Mark O'Connor, and others, and not one single story;-) One of Doc's best albums, and the final album Merle made before he died. Dave Royko - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:45:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Waxman Subject: Re: new cecil taylor, brotz.....and coupons for everyone! Both are great. It's good to see CT play with musicians of his own (high) level. As for Three Points Han's schtick is under control, but it often sounds as if there's a duo (Brotz-Ben) and a soloist (Misha) playing. Still as good (and unsual) a discs as Berlin '71. I don't need coupons. If I order something from Verge I get fast, fairly-eficient service at very good prices, which after all are in Canadian $$$. Ken Waxman On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Scott Handley wrote: > I should have consolidated all this in my last post, but: > > How is the (not that) new Cecil Taylor, NAILED, with Oxley, Barry Guy, and > Evan Parker? > > How is the thankfully reissued THREE POINTS AND A MOUNTAIN by the fabled > Brotzmann/van Hove/Bennink trio? If I dug LIVE IN BERLIN 1971, would I like > THREE POINTS? > > Finally, at the risk of propagating spammish bandwaste, coupons can be found > at the following site, for places like CDnow: > > http://finditnow.8m.com > > I've been using the CDnow and Barnes and Noble couppons for some time now; > it seems legit and is a great way to save a little cash. > > ------s > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > - > > - - ------------------------------ End of Zorn List Digest V2 #905 ******************************* To unsubscribe from zorn-list-digest, send an email to "majordomo@lists.xmission.com" with "unsubscribe zorn-list-digest" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. 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