Bill Laswell: Operazone, Jazzonia, and the horrible Celtic remix disc whose name I (fortunately) can't remember at the moment. Ugh. Laswell has the ability to make some mediocre albums when he's not trying too hard, but these cross the line into the completely, mystifyingly awful. Operazone in particular, it achieves a kind of transcendental awfulness by folding some wonderful playing by Graham Haynes and Jaki Byard and some beautiful string arrangements by Karl Berger into a concept that simply should have never happened. What was he thinking? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Trenkel New and Improv Music http://www.newandimprov.com improv@peak.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------