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Willisau Jazz Festival (Zorn, Frith, Douglas)
by Thierry Raguin 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

Hi everyone, If anyone is in Switzerland from August 29 to September 1, you might want to check the Willisau Jazz Festival (www.jazzwillisau.ch) - Dave Douglas & Tiny Bell Trio (August 31, 14:30) - Aki Tarawase "Tribute to W.C. Handy": with Aki Tarawase, Fred Frith, Rudi Marshall, Nils Wogram, Paul Lovens (August 31, 20:00) - New New York Art Quartet: John Zorn, Milford Graves, Roswell Rudd, Reggie Worklan (September 1, 14:30) Unfortunatelly, I will only attend the Zorn concert but be sure I will give a review. Does anyone know what the New New York Art Quartet is (the hole program is in German :-( )? - Thierry

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here's where lacy's going
by mwisckol＠ocregister.com 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

excerpted from: BYLINE: Mike Zwerin After 32 Years In Paris, Saxophonist Says, 'it's Time To Book' SOURCE: International Herald Tribune Lacy is leaving France for a day gig that includes artistic freedom, a generous salary, social and medical benefits, miscellaneous perks and three-month vacations. "It's time to book," he said... But he has come to feel stalled, "local," taken for granted in Europe. So he accepted an offer he couldn't refuse in Boston. He has a contract to teach at the New England Conservatory of Music, and before the start of the next school year, he and his Swiss-born wife, the singer Irene Aebi, and their two cats will move to Massachusetts. The Lacys are having trouble finding a landlord who will accept the cats, and he is aware that, "the transition will be hard." "I have mixed emotions," he said. "But I've had it with Paris. I want to go home. I've been here too long. You have to follow the music. That's why I came here in the first place. The expat thing is over." This coming from America's leading jazz expatriate might just signify the end of an era. Given Lacy's geographical promiscuity, however, the future is anything but clear. After being stranded in Buenos Aires in 1966, he moved to Rome and in 1970 to Paris (it was the height of the Vietnam War and his band was performing only one extended number, "The Woe," which he calls "our war song") and from Paris to Berlin in the 1990s -- a move that was also supposed to be definitive. In Berlin, he was quoted as saying: "There's nothing happening in Paris any more but football." It caused him a certain amount of woe when he did in fact return. ... There is another reason to move. "The 'fisc' is on my case," is the way he put it. The French equivalent of the Internal Revenue Service "wants money I never made. I have three lawyers working on it. It's expensive and boring, and it keeps me from concentrating on the music. There's a guy there who thinks I'm a big American fish with bank accounts everywhere. I always manage to keep busy, but basically I run at a loss. I kept it going on deficit financing from my mother's stocks and the MacArthur." In 1992, Lacy was awarded a $340,000 fellowship -- popularly known as a "genius grant" -- by the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago. (He says he paid taxes on it in the United States.) It was spent subsidizing his intellectual, often austere and classically and ethnically oriented projects. He takes a sort of perverse pride in being a sloppy record-keeper. "Like I can't drive a car and I can't play chess, I can't keep books. Not everyone can do everything. Fortunately, I can write music and play the saxophone O.K."

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new Cecil Taylor box
by wlt4＠mindspring.com 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

Any idea what's on the new 10-CD (& one defective) Cecil Taylor box? Is it all one group or different ones? I did a quick search without turning up anything and couldn't find the older email discussion.

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lacy moving where?
by mwisckol＠ocregister.com 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

steve lacy's farewell to europe tour? is he leaving? why and where? martin np. cecil taylor -- the willisau concert

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Ayler on Water
by Chris Selvig 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

Does anyone know about the Water label? They're reissuing Albert Ayler's "Nuits de la Fondation Maeght," both on LPs and a single CD combining both volumes. Someone said they thought these recordings (Ayler doing his chestnuts in a gentle, lyrical fashion, and Call Cobbs' harpsichord mercifully replaced with a piano) sounded intriguing, so here's your chance. It's not an Italian label, so they must be honest, right? Chris Selvig

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Mills this fall
by florid oratory 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

just thought some of y'all'd like to know...... Mills College 2002-2003 Concert Series and Special Events Music and Technology PAMELA Z, DAVID SLUSSER, CHRIS BROWN & GUILLERMO GALINDO The concert begins at 7:30 PM with Transmission Temescal by Brown & Galindo, an outdoor, multichannel radio performance about Oakland before the arrival of Europeans, with audience participation: please bring battery-powered boom-boxes with FM reception. David Slusser: Sound Design, in the studio and live Pamela Z: Excerpts from "Voci" for voice and electronics. Saturday, September 21, 7:30 p.m. $10/$5 American Folk Traditions A BAY AREA TRIBUTE TO HAZEL DICKENS: CELEBRATING A LIFE IN MUSIC AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM Thursday, October 3, 8:00 p.m. Free Jean Macduff Vaux Composer-in-Residence CECIL TAYLOR The legendary pianist and composer leads an ensemble of musicians and artists of all disiciplines from the Mills College community in a collaborative, improvisational performance. Friday, October 18, 8:00 p.m. $10/$5 MILLS SESQUICENTENNIAL DARIUS MILHAUD CELEBRATION Program: First Violin Sonata, Segoviana, Aspen Serenade, Four Poems of Catullus, Sonata for Violin and Viola, Creation du Monde San Francisco Contemporary Music Players Jean-Louis LeRoux, conductor Sunday, October 20, 3:00 p.m. Free ( OUT HERE Alternative Rock from the Bay Area Deerhoof Live Human Amy X Neuburg & Men Victor Krummenacher and Bruce Kaphan Friday, November 22, 7:30 p.m. $10/$5 Bassist/Improviser/Composer JOELLE LEANDRE Visiting Milhaud Professor at Mills during the Fall semester 2002 Tuesday, December 3, 8:00 p.m. $10/$5 TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA, MAGGI PAYNE, JOHN BISCHOFF Nakamura: Improvised music for no-imput mixing board Payne: New work Bischoff: Reference Tone, a new work for computer activated small objects Friday, January 31, 8:00 p.m. $10/$5 All events are in the Concert Hall, unless otherwise noted. The Concert Line: (510) 430-2296 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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-- Zorn Improv Aug 10th --
by Kim, Pei-Yi 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

Well, as I was drinking the Monday morning coffee ... Just found the updated listing for Zorn at Tonic on the 10th. Most likely it'll be him with a select 6-8 players going at it in groups of 2-all, similar to the last 3 improv sessions he's had. When I spoke with him about this gig (before the listing update) he had mentioned something about making it a "Cobra"-like thing. I dunno if that will still happen. When are the Anthology Film Archive events happening? Grace, Pei-Yi ------------------------ From: "Kurt Gottschalk" <ecstasymule(a)hotmail.com> zorn is doing 2 nights of music for harry smith, but it's at anthology film archives, not tonic. not sure what the tonic gig is. ----------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by e-mail and then delete it. ==============================================================================

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Non-JZ FS: Praxis, Borbetomagus, Pierre Henry, Francisco López
by pm.carey＠utoronto.ca 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

** PRICES ARE US$ POSTAGE PAID ** in North America (more for overseas) If you don't like a price, make me an OFFER. $12 -- Borbetomagus - "Live at InRoads" JAP CD (PSF: PSFD-19) 1992 [Live show from 11/27/82 at InRoads (SoHo, NYC) feat. Sauter & Dietrich (saxes), Miller (guitar) & Doherty (electronics). Liner notes by Mikawa (Incapacitants) & Sauter, w/ a review by Kevin Shelton. NEW copy/cut out (small clip in sleeve).] $12 -- Francisco López - "Untitled Music For Geography" US CD (Sedimental: sedcd024) 1997 [46 min. minimal, darkambient dronescape with some serious low-end. Commissioned by the Ralph Lemon Company & the 651 Brooklyn Arts Center for the dance theatre work, "Geography". NEW copy.] $12 -- Pierre Henry - "Variations/Voile d'Orphée" FRA CD (Harmonia Mundi France: HMA 1905200) 1994 [64 minute disc featuring "Variations pour une porte et un soupir" (1963) & the early piece, "Voile d'Orphée" (1953). NEW copy. Deleted.] OFFERS -- Praxis - "Live At Warsaw Summer Jazz Days '96" POL CD (Jazz A Go-Go/Akwarium Concert Agency) 1997 [Limited edition first pressing of this live performance feat. Laswell, DXT, Buckethead, Brain, and the Invisbl Skratch Piklz. 70 minute recording from Sala Kongresowa, Warsaw, Poland, June 29, 1996. Remixed/mastered at Jazz Club Akwarium Studio. NEW copy.] -Patrick pm.carey(a)utoronto.ca

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Tomahawk - Mike Patton Orlando Florida Aug. 2nd.
by Theo Klaase 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

I caught the Tomahawk show in Orlando Florida Friday night and I hate to say it but it was disappointing. The sound quality was pretty bad, they were far, far, far from being as amazing as Fantomas or Mr. Bungle (both of whom I've seen in concert too) and they only played for about 55 minutes. No encore either. I go to a lot of shows and I can't remember the last time I saw a band that didn't play an encore. Also, they were over 2 hours late hitting the stage. Mike Patton didn't show up at the venue till 11 o'clock and the show was to start at 9. ===== -That which is Theo "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." "It is harder to kill a government program that it is to kill a vampire." www.fstylee.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com

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Contemporary avalanche
by Chris Selvig 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

Is DG resurrecting their Avant-Garde series under a new name? I'd love to see Kagel's "Acustica," long overdue for a reissue. Chris Selvig

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