Hi. Just after writing my last message, I checked the Tzadik page and just read about the two album I mentioned and they actually sound even more interesting than I remembered. Check it out: Rabbinical School Dropouts: Cosmic Tree The Rabbinical School Dropouts is as crazy a group of kooks as you could want. Sun Ra, the Hampton Grease Band, Frank Zappa and the Klezmatics all rolled into one, the music of the Friedmann brothers is fresh and imaginative. Their ten-member big band (featuring oboe, mandolin, bassoon, theremin, toy piano, tablas, etc.) storms through a dozen creative originals touching upon klezmer, jazz, funk, Latin, rock, and varied mishegoss along the way. Jewish garage jazz with a sick sense of humor from Long Beach, California. Frank London: Scientist at Work Originally released in 1999 in a privately pressed limited edition, this is much more than a re-release. Alchemically transformed by John Zorn through radical remixing, editing and overdubs by downtown superstars Mark Feldman, Erik Friedlander, Cyro Baptista, Jamie Saft (and Zorn himself on sax), Scientist at Work is a dynamic collaboration in the Miles Davis/Teo Macero tradition. Featuring standout work by the late Thomas Chapin on saxophones and bass flute, as well as the lyrical trumpet of bandleader/composer Frank London, this music touches on Jewish prayer, Afro-funk, Jazz fusion, Middle Eastern Taqsim and more. The London one sounds like it's something quite new for Zorn. Does it really work!? I mean, if I read about a new Laswell album of "radical remixing, editing and overdubs" which mixed "Jewish prayer, Afro-funk, Jazz fusion, Middle Eastern Taqsim and more" it would take a whole lot before I would buy it ;-) But with Zorn, I'm kind of curious. AT least he hasn't done 500 of them before.... And yes, it's true, there now is Tzadik t-shirts! Cheers. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com