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universal agreement
by Kurt Gottschalk 20 Sep '03

20 Sep '03

i'd love to see it as well. >Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:27:03 -0700 >From: Chris Selvig <selvig(a)earthlink.net> >Subject: Universal shenanigans >To: zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com >Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030918122616.0330bd90(a)pop.earthlink.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > >If anyone could send me a copy of the Universal contract, I'd be interested >to see it. > >Chris Selvig > _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive larger attachments with Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es

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Claudia Quintet - west coast tour
by CuneiWay＠aol.com 20 Sep '03

20 Sep '03

Hi Cuneiform Records' latest signing, The Claudia Quintet, is playing the following west coast shows: October 29 - University of Oregon- Eugene, OR October 30 - Earshot Jazz Festival - Seattle, WA October 31 - clinic at Capilano College AND gig Vancouver, Canada November 1 - 411 Collective - Portland, Oregon November 3 - clinic @ CalArts - LA, CA and gig at the Temple Bar - Santa Monica, CA November 4 - Phoenix, AZ (tentative) November 6 - University of Colorado - Boulder, CO November 7 - High Mayhem Festival CCA -Santa Fe, NM November 8 - the Mat Bevel Institute - Tucson, AZ The Claudia Quinet is led by John Hollenbeck - drums and compositions and also includes Drew Gress - bass Matt Moran - vibes Ted Reichman - accordion Chris Speed - sax and clarinet Steve www.cuneiformrecords.com

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Tour link?
by Sheila OHalloran 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Does anyone know where I can find a Zorn tour link for October/November '03? Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Fast, faster, fastest: Upgrade to Cable or DSL today! https://broadband.msn.com

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Re: Subject: Zornfest 2003-09-17 XU FENG (part 2 of 2)
by Ari Shechter 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

had a chance to ask anthony coleman about some of the rules... said that the headband allowed the wearer to break all the rules and do what they wanted "until they got killed", or something along those lines.... coleman wore a lot of the headband ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Kamerman <thepagoon(a)yahoo.com> Date: Friday, September 19, 2003 8:30 am Subject: Re: Subject: Zornfest 2003-09-17 XU FENG (part 2 of 2) > I should have guessed the dude who flashed a photo > there was a list member... > > I made it for the second set and sat up front (though > I'm not visible in that photo), so I guess I can try > to elaborate on certain points. Was planning to write > my own review until I saw this great one already > posted. > > There were a series of cards labelled with simply a > letter that I found indescipherable but then there > were general titles to the movements of the piece, one > labelled "Fencing" to create a more back and forth, > combative atmosphere, and one labelled something like > "immitation" or "immitate" to get the band to try to > mimic eachother. I think there was one moment where > Honda really hit the nail on the head with her attempt > to recreate on a synth the highly percussive blast > that had just hit. It even got a smile out of Zorn > who overall seemed to keep having to shush her, tell > her to back off and not play so much, because he > wasn't quite happy with what she added to the piece. > > Other unmentioned velcroed cards called for "rhythm" > "a-rythm" and "changes." It was "rhythm" that > actually resulted in Ribot laying down a great groove > that they used to end one piece. > > The headband / hat thing confused me greatly but just > a note, it was not multiple headbands but rather 1 > headband that slowly made its way around the stage. > Though I don't know what the relevance is there. > > Lastly, Ribot and Frith seemed to think themselves > just as much the conductors of the piece as Zorn and > no one minded. They kept flashing hand signals at > Zorn to indicate what they thought were good places to > cue the piece into next and he would almost always > listen. > > Having never heard a game piece live before, I wasn't > sure what to expect but I left quite impressed. > > -Richard > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Re: Zornfest 2003-09-17 XU FENG (part 1 of 2)
by Richard Gardner 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Saints be praised Ed is on the case. Thanks Ed, good review just as I had hoped. Look forward to some more. Richard

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Zornfest 2003-09-18 MASADA plus TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS (part 1 of 2)
by Ed Price 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

hello again :) this time i was aiming for 6:30pm. i really wanted to get good seats for my "guessts" (my wife as well as two friends i thought would enjoy the show). stopped at my brother's apt to get my ticket (since they were treating me this time -- i got them tix for the standards trio tomorrow (uh, tonight) at carnegie hall -- ok, cmon, who else here is going to be there??!) met some friend of theirs who i'm guessing was a guitarist (based on the obsessive guitar discussions he and rob were having). alice had made some food which smelled REALLY REALLY REALLY great and i would have loved to eat with them but i was hellbent on getting to tonic early and getting in line. i was expecting to get rained on too because of "the hurricane". (people keep talking about it, i dont really know what's going on. but it was quite windy and cloudy and seemed to be *threatening* rain on my walk downtown...) got a good spot in line, enjoyed observation and some conversation with fellow zornfest attendees, my people had shown up and joined me in line by the time we went inside, where we navigated the airtight security of the tonic "checkpoint". ticket, my credit card, id... decent seats. eventually the place fills up, rob and alice and their friend show up, happily camped at a table further back, alice has brought me a container of the food which i didnt get to have, i am psyched!! but i save it for later ("no outside food or drink" for one reason, and besides i dont want to be eating when the show starts, and it is approaching That Time). in the beginning of the set (i only saw the first set) i was having some reservations. i thought they started out a little rough. not quite settled or something. i was thinking this was the first set of this band, and maybe they would get better over time and i should have come, and brought people, for later appearances. the turning point was a few tunes into the set, they played a really crazy tune, it had fast jump cuts, abrupt shifts, weird sounds, it was exciting and funny, and after that things really picked up. (later i talked to my brother and he mentioned this tune too.) there was some great playing by baron and greg cohen. greg cohen... ok, it's memory lane time. in 1993, i wrote this: | For the second half of the set they [Zorn, Baron, Douglas, Cohen] | played Masada tunes. Looked to me like Baron was reading them for | the first time. I don't know about the other players. Greg Cohen | couldn't quite keep up with the furious tempo Baron set on one tune | where the bass is walking really fast -- when I saw Masada with Mark | Dresser (and not Baron) it was a different story... In fact, I | didn't think this was a particularly great execution of the Masada | tunes. Perhaps it was because they weren't familiar enough with the | music to forget about playing it right and actually *do something* | with it. Most of the tunes just didn't seem to evolve or go | anywhere, even if at any given point in time they were playing | well. Give Baron a chance to familiarize himself with the charts | (even so he kicked ass!) and get Dresser back on bass, and *then* | I'd be pretty excited... The combination of Douglas (who didn't seem | to be having any trouble) and Zorn worked well I thought. I TAKE IT BACK ABOUT GREG COHEN!!! I'M SORRY!!! YOU ROCK DUDE!!! maybe i wasnt completely wrong about that "first live" masada show. but it's a different story now! obviously, they have a lot of experience with the tunes and the band. i dont know if greg cohen was already a great bass player ten years ago, but he played great tonight. he does an admirable job holding down basslines, in the midst of considerable fury and potential confusion. tonight i was impressed by his improvising. he was featured a number of times, in intense duos with baron, solos, playing fast, slow, inside, outside. he has no trouble keeping up with baron now -- and joey has not slowed down at all AFAICT :) the combination of douglas and zorn still works well of course... my one complaint was that both horns were up too high in the mix. it would have been much better i think if they had not been so loud, and didnt drown out baron and cohen. the whole band sound would have been better and nothing would have been lost. (eh, maybe it sounded better from other perspectives or something, from the back maybe, i dont know.) dave douglas looked like a middle-aged ninja doctor (he was wearing a black outfit and the shirt was reminiscent of "scrubs" kinda shirt like on ER or something...). BTW that's a good thing ;) more towards the latter part of the set, there were some slow tunes, including one where greg cohen was featured again, very nice... there was an uptempo tune, in seven, where baron kept a popping beat going, and growing, and -- again, IIRC, with cohen holding down that bassline! wow. rocking. i'm a sucker for that kind of thing -- insanely groovy ivo papasov-like jazz-influenced bulgarian wedding music in weird meters while sounding like james brown band... wife-friendliness quotient: HIGH. she had said something about liking music where she could dance, or at least imagine dancing. i know, i know, i know, everyone here likes to dance to microphone feedback, amplified cacti etc. but XU FENG didnt really cut it for her and i can understand that. masada, OTOH, was danceable. easily. she said she'd like to hear them sometime in a setting where there was dancing. i agreed that would be nice, suggested an outdoor setting, and said i'd dance with her in that case. [ CONTINUED IN PART 2 ]

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Zornfest 2003-09-17 XU FENG (part 1 of 2)
by Ed Price 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

[ attempt #2... now in two parts each under 7K... sheesh! ] greetings. long time no write :) so i saw both sets of XU FENG... for once, i was not in a rush, heading downtown from work to meet my brother and his wife (i was running late for both Bar Kokhba last friday and Frith/Zorn on monday). i hadnt really thought about going to see XU FENG too much but my brother told me about the lineup -- JOEY BARON and Susie Ibarra (not getting out much anymore i have only see her play maybe once or twice so that wasnt a big deal to me but i think rob was pretty psyched) and MARC RIBOT and FRED FRITH, not to mention Anthony Coleman and, well Jamie Saft was gonna play but i gather he was stuck somewhere (Germany??) for some reason (plane flight issue??) so Yuka Honda substituted. we got to Tonic at around 7pm, an hour early, and there were probably 15-20 people in front of us in line. wow. i guess 6:30pm might be better... i wonder if masada will be much worse (i assume so?). anyway it was great weather so quite pleasant to hang out, enjoy the sunset (over a WTC mural, with building under construction in background)... given the crowd we were worried we wouldnt get seats, but we did. (oh yeah while we were waiting outside we saw joey and susie arrive.) also fortunately i was able to buy tickets to both sets so i could stay and save a seat for *my* wife who had decided (to my surprise) that she was interested in seeing this piece. actually i think once she expressed this interest, i made it hard for her not to go, because i was so excited about the possibility of her seeing a zorn game piece, instead of "just masada", clearly i would be let down if she backed out. (i even explained the concept of "wife-friendly" repertoire and how i could brag about it on the zorn-list. ha! ps no offense i know "wife-friendly" is sexist) zorn's 1993 program notes: "The favorite actress of legendary director King Hu, Xu Feng was one of the biggest stars in the Chinese film industry and more recently has become a powerful producer. Game pieces after Cobra tended to be more tangible than abstract, more dramatic, and this piece, written directly after Cobra, focuses in on strategic elements resulting in a fast paced competitive game not unlike the kung fu films Xu Feng starred in. The introduction of sound MODIFIERS and the special instrumentation (although it has been done with six drummers) helps give the piece a distinctive identity." zorn's 2003 program notes: "i saw [WTF?? zorn is writing all lowercase these days too??] *xu feng* in king hu's masterpiece _touch of zen_ and was blown away by her power, beauty and spiritual intensity. i'm amazed king hu's films are not more known. he was the original master of the chinese martial arts genre. this piece is one of my favorites, a fast-paced, dynamic piece with some options and strategies not available in cobra. more improvisers should check this piece out. there is life beyond cobra." i wrote this in 1993: | The "sound modifiers" were cards Zorn would hold up that said things | like "fast", "slow", "loud", "soft", "dense". There were other | cards that indicated other things I can only speculate about (there | was a "Runner" card and a "Pool" card), possibly they had something | to do with who played or who "led" the improvisation. There was a | "crossfade" card which Zorn would raise and lower gradually, causing | one half of the band to become loud as the other faded out. | Headbands were worn by various people. Zorn had a hat that he wore | and took off at certain times, which I imagine meant something. | There was a big card that simply said "End" which had a predictable | effect. well zorn wore a hat again :) and i still dont know what it means! headbands were again worn by various members of the band, mainly anthony coleman and fred frith so far as i noticed, but also baron at least once. [ CONTINUED IN PART 2. ]

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More Universal
by Chris Selvig 18 Sep '03

18 Sep '03

I'm still fuming - it occurred to me that making a store devote 25% of their floor space would make carrying used stuff well-nigh impossible. The majors continue to amaze me. Chris Selvig

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venice bienale live
by lalouche48 18 Sep '03

18 Sep '03

Hi, In a few minutes, David Krakauer live on the Italian Radio, recorded in Venice's festival. Uri Caine is this year's director ! There was David Moss on september the 13th. Today's David Krakauer. Some others will be recorded but broadcast later (in december) like Otomo Yoshihide, Han Bennink and DJ Olive... The stream : http://www.radio.rai.it/new_player/player.cfm?Q_CANALE=3 The program : http://www.radio.rai.it/radio3/archivio_2003/eventi/2003_09_05_biennale_musi ca/index.cfm. The complete program : http://www.labiennale.org/en/music/calendar/ Have fun. Take care.

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Re: Universal's 'catch' point 2
by TagYrIt＠aol.com 18 Sep '03

18 Sep '03

In a message dated 9/18/2003 1:37:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, yol(a)esophagus.com writes: > 2. In order to get the new price - in spite of the fact that UMVD > co-op has been eradicated - we must agree that 33% of our > merchandising and marketing efforts will go to UMVD product. > In effect, isn't Universal saying with this point that even with the lower prices, they have very little faith in the value of their catalog? Dale.

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