December 2003 - zorn-list - mailman.xmission.com

Re: Peter Brotzmann, Hamid Drake & Kent Kessler Trio
by rjs 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

It was actually my first time @ Onopa, but compared to some of the venues that I am used to, it ranks as one of the better ones. Total capacity for a show would probably 100 to maybe 150. The Brotzmann show was pretty full. Half the crowd were at tables the other half standing. Sound was very good. I'd like to see them bring in more Jazz in general - I would be there. I still kick myself in the butt for missing the "Mono" show that was recently there a couple Sundays back, but Sundays in my world have become off limits to nighttime entertainment - 36, children and responsibilities. z --- skip heller <thisparadise(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > how's the onopa as a venue? how big? how > well-attended was the show? > > > thanks -- > skip h > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

1 0

Peter Brotzmann, Hamid Drake & Kent Kessler Trio
by rjs 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

The Other night I witnessed a truely amazing, extremely energetic show! It was the Peter Brotzmann, Hamid Drake & Kent Kessler Trio in Milwaukee at the Onopa Brewing Company. Everyone, promise not to miss this one when it comes by your town. I swear you will not be disappointed. They did two sets, the second with special guest Ken Vandermark and it was a tale of Free Jazz I have not witnessed in a long time. Each member played as if it was the last show they would ever do. Two days have passed and I am still giddy. take care, z __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

4 3

Friedlander
by Efrén del Valle 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hi, I'm really intrigued by Erik Friedlander's "Maldoror" solo album. Any opinions on this? I've only read positive reviews about it but I just wanted to double-check with you guys. Thanks in advance. have a nice holiday. Best, EfrÃ©n del Valle n.p: David Slusser sampler _______________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sorteos Â¡Ya puedes comprar LoterÃa de Navidad! http://yahoo.ventura24.es/

1 0

Another damned 2003 best-of list.
by Taylor McLaren 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

I started out with the usual list of CDs, but noticed that a lot of brilliant moments were being left out because I didn't necessarily like the albums that they came on all the way through. Think of this as a singles-of-the-year list, then. Atmosphere, "Always Coming Back Home To You" (from "Seven's Travels") - Emotionally complex, mature hip-hop road music... damn. Hieroglyphics, "Classic" (from "Full Circle") - The disc is nothing extraordinary, but this is catchy as hell. Matthew Shipp, "Vamp to Vibe" (from "Equilibrium") - Christmas Gift of Choice for Friends #1, and the only Shipp album I've ever loved start to finish. Hoahio, "DJ Hashimoto" (from "Peek-Ara-Boo") - Nothing like the rest of the album, but that koto line gives me fits of the giggles. ONJQ, "Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk" (from "Tails Out") - Sine waves in a Mingus tune... and it works! Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf, "Red Light Green Light" (from "Big Shots") - A whole album of sunny, beautiful memories of the '90s as they should have been. Ward 21, "Coochie Zone" (from "U Know How We Roll") - I should be offended, but they're so nuts that I can only laugh. Spring Heel Jack, "Part II" (from "Live") - It's better than "Masses". Spectre, "The Rolling Force" (from "Psychic Wars") - A faintly cheesy album, but I love those grooves. David Toop, "Poison Incense" (from "Black Chamber") - Perfect music for a dark apartment on a quiet night, though it freaks my roommate out. The Bug vs. The Rootsman w/Daddy Freddy, "Imitator" (from their Tigerbeat6 EP) - Amazingly, it sticks in my head even more than "Politicians and Paedophiles". REISSUES OF THE YEAR: The New Pornographers, "Mass Romantic" - Christmas Gift of Choice for Friends #2 (chronologically; #1 by quantity) v/a, "Mutant Disco" Milford Graves, "Meditation Among Us" Albert Ayler, "Music is the Healing Force of the Universe" SURPRISE MP3 DISCOVERY, COURTESY OF MACADDICT MAGAZINE: BT, "Somnabulist (Simply Being Loved)" - Actual intelligent dance music... holy crap! OLDER STUFF, JUST UNEARTHED: v/a, "No New York" Boom Bip & Dose One, "Circle" Dafeldecker/Hautzinger/Tilbury/Sachiko M, "Absinth" - The most engaging Erstwhile-style effort I've heard since a Kevin Drumm show about three years ago; it actually takes me places. The The, London Town box - Man, do these discs sound incredible now. Big Picture, s/t Portastatic w/Ken Vandermark and Tim Mulvenna, "The Perfect Little Door" - A perfect little EP, it never overextends itself... it's just NICE. That's enough typing for now... off to work I go. -me

1 0

re: soft core porn
by Richard Gardner 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

> bzzzt! Robert Wyatt, not Henry Cow! > >> Little Red Riding Hood hits the road is >> definitely there. Sorry Steve, but it is on the Concerts album isn't it. Maybe I should have tried to track down RW not CC. Richard

1 0

Re: Re: Jazzmaster...opinions
by Renaud BERTRAND 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

IMO, the Jazzmaster is a good balance beetween the Fender Jaguar (low input, terrible trebble and attack, perfect for surf music but limited for other applications) and the suitable-for-everything Stratocaster. It has a real personality (even the recent and EVEN the japanese), from surf-style to jazz thanks to its heavy sounding bottom mike (yet it failed on the jazz player market). However the conception of the vibrato system and strings fixation may have been a little bit too complicated, and it's difficult to get a good set up (most I've tried unplugged sometimes sound like a sitar), but I think the result (marvelous vibrato sound) is worth the technical difficulties, I wouldn't trade my Jazzmaster for any Strato. Hope this can be of any help Renaud > Message du 22/12/03 07:51 > De : jim & nika > A : zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com > Copie à : > Objet : Re: Jazzmaster...opinions > > > ---------- > >From: skip heller > >To: Zach Steiner , > >Subject: Re: Jazzmaster...opinions > >Date: Sun, Dec 21, 2003, 4:43 PM > > > > > Vintage and recent, Jazzmasters are great guitars > > > > skip h > > > skip-you may have found some common ground w/Nels Cline on this one. In a > strange sychronicity, just last night he was extolling the wonders of > Jazzmasters past & present...as well as esteemed practicioners (Rory > Gallagher?, et al). > > jim > > > > > on 12/21/03 2:06 PM, Zach Steiner at zsteiner(a)butler.edu wrote: > > > >> What are the guitar players' of the list opinions of the Fender > >> Jazzmaster? Both vintage and modern incarnations. Thanks for any > >> input. > >> > >> Zach > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >

3 2

Re: baraka
by Stuart Boyer 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

Hello, It just so happens that I bought a 'used' copy of a Archie Sheep/ Roswell Rudd Cd called 'Live in New York' on Verve and one of the titles is credited to Amiri Baraka( poetry) Hmmmm... Stu "Ben Axelrad" <soulfrieda(a)hotmail.com> Sent by: To: zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com zorn-list-bounces+boyerst=kellyservices.com(a)mailman.x cc: mission.com Subject: baraka 12/22/2003 10:10 AM Was it Baraka who was poet laureate of Newark, but lost his post after publishing an allegedly anti-semitic poem about 9/11? >From: Spanshcaravan(a)aol.com >To: zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com >Subject: Re: zorn-list Digest, Vol 7, Issue 115 >Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 00:10:58 -0500 > >In a message dated 12/21/2003 4:15:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, >zorn-list-request(a)mailman.xmission.com writes: > > > zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com > > >leroi jones is now known as amiri baraka, an amazing writer that had a >period of black nationalism but is now a marxist-leninist that has a job as >a professor somewhere in either nyc or jersey, i forget where. > >_______________________________________________ >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 _________________________________________________________________ Working moms: Find helpful tips here on managing kids, home, work ? and yourself. http://special.msn.com/msnbc/workingmom.armx _______________________________________________ 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

2 1

Re: so...which two?
by Richard Gardner 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

> which two tunes, Richard?? Its been a few years since I noticed this. In fact my partner and I went through a video of the film twice to make an accurate list of the tracks and timings for Chris Cutler. (It was a dirty job but somebody ...) I cannot remember one track now but Little Red Riding Hood hits the road is definitely there. I had also forgotten the Larks Tongue was also used but I knew, at the time, that there was no need to pass the information to Mr Fripp, he had long ago sorted out the case! Be interested to know if Chris Cutler ever proceeded with the case. The last I heard it was just a morass of legal problems going back over far too many years. Richard

4 3

baraka
by Simon Calle 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

In the Roswell Rudd / Archie Shepp CD Live in New York Amiri Baraka reads a poem while Reggie Workman plays "Blue Monk" on the backround. I like how it sounds. You can check www.amiribaraka.com Simon

1 0

Amiri Baraka
by Herb Levy 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

The history of Amiri Baraka's political and literary development is pretty complicated & I'm pretty sure that, regardless of whether there are folks who still consider his positions to be Black Nationalist in nature, he now considers himself to be much more of an Marxist-Leninist Internationalist. As to the reaction to his poem "Somebody Blew Up America": the alleged anti-Semitism of isolated lines of the work are belied by the overall poem which is very clearly a look at the political history of (primarily) the US. Here's a Web site with some information and resources on Baraka: <http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/baraka/baraka.htm> Bests, Herb -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb(a)eskimo.com

1 0