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Bayreuth Festival
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Performances take place in a specially designed theatre, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Wagner personally supervised the design and construction of the theatre, which contained many architectural innovations to accommodate the huge orchestras for which Wagner wrote as well as the composer's particular vision about the staging of his works. The Festival has become a pilgrimage destination for Wagner enthusiasts, who often must wait years to obtain tickets.
The origins of the Festival itself lie rooted in Richard Wagner's interest in establishing his financial independence. A souring of the relationship with his patron, Ludwig II of Bavaria, led to his expulsion from Munich, where he had originally intended to launch the festival. Wagner next considered Nuremberg, which would have reinforced the thematic significance of works such as Die Meistersinger. On the advice of Hans Richter, however, the focus fell upon Bayreuth which enjoyed three distinct advantages.
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Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is an American private Ivy League research university located in New York City, New York, United States. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Today the university operates seven Columbia Global Centers overseas in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Santiago and Nairobi.
The university was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain. After the American Revolutionary War, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. The University now operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a private board of trustees, and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia University. That same year, the university's campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its location in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, where it occupies more than six city blocks, or 32 acres (0.13 km2). The university encompasses twenty schools and is affiliated with numerous institutions, including Teachers College, Barnard College, and the Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America as well as the Juilliard School.
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Knitting Factory
The Knitting Factory is a music venue and concert house with locations in Brooklyn, Boise, Reno, and Spokane. The club originally specialized in jazz and experimental music and has expanded to showcasing all genres of music, performing arts and comedy.
The Knitting Factory was opened in 1987 by Michael Dorf and Bob Appel, both from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The original location was in Manhattan on Houston Street, almost equidistant between CBGB and the Bottom Line. Initially, the venue was supposed to be an art gallery with a performance space and cafe, as well as a home for experimental music. The club quickly emerged as a home for the sounds that did not neatly fit into the categories of jazz or rock. Artists including Sonic Youth, Sound of Urchin, Cassandra Wilson, Gil Scott Heron, Yo La Tengo, Carl Hancock Rux, Cecil Taylor, Cluster, and Bill Frisell played there. The musicians who would end up forming the band Soul Coughing first met at the Knitting Factory, where Mike Doughty, who would become the lead singer, worked as a doorman. Soul Coughing played many of their early shows there.
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Manhattan
Manhattan (/mænˈhætən/) is the most densely populated and the oldest of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the U.S. state of New York. The borough and county consist of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island,Mill Rock, and U Thant Island; as well as Marble Hill, a very small area on the mainland bordering the Bronx. The original city of New York began at the southern end of Manhattan, expanded northward, and then between 1874 and 1898, annexed land from surrounding counties.
The New York County is the most densely populated county in the United States, and one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with a 2010 population of 1,585,873 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles (59.5 km2), or 69,464 residents per square mile (26,924/km²), more dense than any individual American city. It is also one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, with a 2005 per capita income above $100,000. Manhattan is the third-largest of New York's five boroughs in population, and its smallest borough in land area.
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New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. As a global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.
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Queens
Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City and the largest in area and the second-largest in population. Since 1899, Queens has had the same boundaries as Queens County, which is now the second most populous county in New York State and the fourth-most densely populated county in the United States. Queens, as well as neighboring borough Brooklyn, sits on the west end of geographic Long Island. Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world with a population of over 2.2 million, 46% of whom are foreign-born, representing over 100 different nations and speaking over 138 different languages.
Were each New York City borough an independent city, Queens would be the nation's fourth largest city, after Los Angeles, Chicago, and Brooklyn. Queens has the second-largest and most diversified economy of all the five boroughs of New York City.Long Island City, on the Queens waterfront across from Manhattan on the East River, is the site of the Citicorp Building, the tallest skyscraper in New York City outside of Manhattan and the tallest building on geographic Long Island.
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September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/11) were a series of four suicide attacks that were committed in the United States on September 11, 2001, coordinated to strike the areas of New York City and Washington, D.C. On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally piloted two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. The hijackers also intentionally crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and intended to pilot the fourth hijacked jet, United Airlines Flight 93, into a target in Washington, D.C.; however, the plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after its passengers attempted to take control of the jet from the hijackers. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks including the 227 civilians and 19 hijackers aboard the four planes, none of whom survived.
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Virgin Megastores
Virgin Megastores is an international chain of record shops, founded by Sir Richard Branson on London's Oxford Street in early 1971. Virgin Megastores are best described today as entertainment retailers.
In 1979 the company opened their first Megastore at the end of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. The company expanded to hundreds of stores worldwide in the 1990s, but has lost a large number of stores in recent years, largely with the sale, and eventual closing, of the UK and US stores. Current operations are mainly in France, Australia and the Middle East, consisting of over 100 stores.
Richard Branson & Nik Powell had initially run a small record shop called Virgin Records and Tapes on Notting Hill Gate, London, specialising particularly in "krautrock" imports, and offering bean bags and free vegetarian food for the benefit of customers listening to the music on offer. After making the shop into a success, they turned their business into a fully fledged record label, Virgin Records. The name Virgin, according to Branson (in his autobiography), arose from a colleague of his when they were brainstorming business ideas. She suggested Virgin - as they were all new to business - like "virgins". The first release on the label was the progressive rock album Tubular Bells by multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield in 1973.
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Webster University
Webster University is an American non-profit private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Webster University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Webster University is ranked 24th among regional universities (Midwest), according to college and university rankings in US News.
Webster operates as an independent, non-denominational university with more than 100 campus locations around the world, including Webster University Geneva, Webster University Thailand, Webster University Vienna, Regent's American College London, and Webster University Leiden. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs in a wide array of disciplines, including the liberal arts, fine and performing arts, teacher education, business and management.
In Fall 2010, the university enrolled about 21,000 students (16,196 graduate students; 4,895 undergraduate students) around the globe who range from traditional college-age students to adult learners. They represent all 50 US states and more than 129 nationalities.
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Abe Schwartz
Abe Schwartz (1881-1963) was a well-known klezmer musician of the 1920s.
Abe was born outside of Bucharest, Romania, and moved to the United States in 1899. He soon distinguished himself as a talented arranger and composer of music, as well as a violinist, pianist, and bandleader.
The famous klezmer clarinetist Naftule Brandwein played for a time in Schwartz's ensemble, notably on popular songs like Brandwein's own "Firn Di Mekhutonim Aheym" (Leading the In-Laws Home). They also performed Schwartz's famous number "Di Grine Kuzine" (The Greenhorn Cousin), still played today by klezmer revivalists.
Strom, Yale. The Book of Klezmer: The History, The Music, The Folklore 1st ed. p.157
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Agnes Martin
Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) was a Canadian-born American abstract painter, often referred to as a minimalist; Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist. She won a National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998.
Agnes Bernice Martin was born in Macklin, Saskatchewan, grew up in Vancouver, and moved to the United States in 1931, becoming a citizen in 1950. Martin studied at Western Washington University College of Education, Bellingham, WA, prior to receiving her B.A. (1942) from Teachers College, Columbia University. After hearing lectures by the Zen Buddhist scholar D. T. Suzuki at Columbia, she became interested in Asian thought, not as a religious discipline, but as a code of ethics, a practical how-to for getting through life. A few years following graduation, Martin matriculated at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where she also taught art courses before returning to Columbia University to earn her M.A. (1952).
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Albert Collins
Albert Collins (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer (and occasional harmonica player) whose recording career began in the 1960s in Houston and whose fame eventually took him to stages across North America, Europe, Japan and Australia. He had many nicknames, such as "The Ice Man", "The Master of the Telecaster" and "The Razor Blade".
Born in Leona, Texas, Collins was a distant relative of Lightnin' Hopkins and grew up learning about music and playing guitar. His family moved to Houston, Texas when he was seven. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, he absorbed the blues sounds and styles from Texas, Mississippi and Chicago. His style would soon envelop these sounds. He regularly named John Lee Hooker and organist Jimmy McGriff, along with Hopkins, Guitar Slim and Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown as major influences on his playing.
He formed his first band in 1952 and two years later was the headliner at several blues clubs in Houston. By the late 1950s Collins began using Fender Telecasters. He later chose a "maple-cap" 1966 Custom Fender Telecaster with a Gibson PAF humbucker in the neck position and a 100 watt RMS silverfaced 1970s Fender Quad Reverb combo as his main equipment, and developed a unique sound featuring minor tunings, sustained notes and an "attack" fingerstyle. He also frequently used a capo on his guitar, particularly on the 5th, 7th, and 9th frets. He primarily favored an "open F-minor" tuning (low to high: F-C-F-Ab-C-F). In the booklet from the CD Ice Pickin, it was stated that Albert tuned to a "D minor D-A-D-F-A-D" Tuning. He played without a pick, using his thumb and first finger. Collins credited his unusual tuning to his cousin, Willow Young, who taught it to him.
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Albert King
Albert King (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992) was an American blues guitarist and singer, and a major influence in the world of blues guitar playing.
One of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with B.B. King and Freddie King), Albert King stood 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) (some reports say 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)) and weighed 250 pounds (110 kg) and was known as "The Velvet Bulldozer". He was born Albert Nelson on a cotton plantation in Indianola, Mississippi. Although unrelated, Albert occasionally referred to himself as "B.B. King's half brother". During his childhood he would sing at a family gospel group at a church where his father played the guitar. One of 13 children, King grew up picking cotton on plantations near Forrest City, Arkansas, where the family moved when he was eight.
He began his professional work as a musician with a group called In The Groove Boys in Osceola, Arkansas. Moving north to Gary, Indiana and later St. Louis, Missouri, he briefly played drums for Jimmy Reed's band and on several early Reed recordings. Influenced by blues musicians Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lonnie Johnson, but also, interestingly enough, Hawaiian music, the electric guitar became his signature instrument, his preference being the Gibson Flying V which he named "Lucy". King earned his nickname "The Velvet Bulldozer" during this period as he drove one of them and also worked as a mechanic to make a living.
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Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley (/ˈkroʊli/ KROH-lee; 12 October 1875–1 December 1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, mystic, ceremonial magician, poet and mountaineer, who was responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. In his role as the founder of the Thelemite philosophy, he came to see himself as the prophet who was entrusted with informing humanity that it was entering the new Aeon of Horus in the early 20th century.
Born into a wealthy upper class family, as a young man he became an influential member of the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn after befriending the order's leader, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers. Subsequently believing that he was being contacted by his Holy Guardian Angel, an entity known as Aiwass, while staying in Egypt in 1904, he "received" a text known as The Book of the Law from what he believed was a divine source, and around which he would come to develop his new philosophy of Thelema. He would go on to found his own occult society, the A∴A∴ and eventually rose to become a leader of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), before founding a religious commune in Cefalù known as the Abbey of Thelema, which he led from 1920 through till 1923. After abandoning the Abbey amid widespread opposition, Crowley returned to Britain, where he continued to promote Thelema until his death.
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Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Скря́бин; 6 January 1872 [O.S. 25 December 1871] – 27 April [O.S. 14 April] 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist. Scriabin's work initially possessed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language in line with the innovations of Frédéric Chopin, but developed an increasingly atonal and dissonant sound. Scriabin is known for developing, independent of the advances of Arnold Schoenberg, an atonal musical system, accorded to mysticism. Scriabin innovated several new harmonic techniques initially based on romanticism but moving increasingly into contemporary musical atonality; he is known for associating colors with the various harmonic tones of his atonal scale. Scriabin was influenced by synesthesia, and his color-coded circle of fifths was also influenced by theosophy. He may be considered to be the main Russian Symbolist composer. Scriabin is also known for his eccentricities and mystical beliefs, which contributed to the angle at which he approached music and harmonization. Scriabin was one of the most innovative and most controversial of early modern composers. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia said of Scriabin that, "No composer has had more scorn heaped or greater love bestowed..." Leo Tolstoy once described Scriabin's music as "a sincere expression of genius."
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Annie Gosfield
Annie Gosfield (born September 11, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a New York composer who specializes in using detuned or out of tune samples and industrial noises. Her work often contains improvisation and frequently uses extended techniques and/or altered musical instruments. She won a 2012 Berlin Prize.
Her work includes large-scale compositions, chamber music, electronic music, video projects, and music for dance. She uses traditional notation, improvisation, and extended techniques to explore a sound world that eliminates the boundaries between music and noise. Her music is often inspired by the inherent beauty of non-musical sounds, such as machines, destroyed pianos, warped 78 rpm records, and detuned radios. She often works in close collaboration with musicians, in order to emphasize the unique qualities of each performer.
Gosfield's compositions have been performed internationally by The Bang on a Can Allstars, Agon Orchestra, Joan Jeanrenaud, Fred Frith, Felix Fan, Roger Kleier, Blair McMillen, William Winant, the FLUX Quartet, the Miami String Quartet, The Silesian String Quartet, So Percussion, Talujon Percussion, Newband (on the Harry Partch instruments) and many others, at festivals including Warsaw Autumn, ISCM World Music Days, Bang on a Can Marathon, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Festival Musique Actuelle, Wien Modern, OtherMinds, Spoleto Festival USA, Company Week, Taktlos, and three "Radical New Jewish Culture" festivals curated by John Zorn.
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Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s. Among the array of instruments he plays are the flute; the sopranino, soprano, C-melody, F mezzo-soprano, E-flat alto, baritone, bass, and contrabass saxophones; and the E-flat, B-flat, and contrabass clarinets.
Braxton studied philosophy at Roosevelt University. He has taught at Mills College and as of 2012 is Professor of Music at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, teaching music composition, music history, and improvisation.
Early in his career, Braxton led a trio with violinist Leroy Jenkins and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and was involved with The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, the "AACM", founded in Chicago, Braxton's birthplace.
In 1968, Braxton recorded the double LP For Alto. There had been occasional unaccompanied saxophone recordings previously (notably Coleman Hawkins' "Picasso"), but For Alto was the first full-length album for unaccompanied saxophone. The album's songs were dedicated to Cecil Taylor and John Cage, among others. The album influenced other artists like Steve Lacy (soprano sax) and George Lewis (trombone), who would go on to record their own acclaimed solo albums.
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Anthony Coleman
Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955) is an American musician. Coleman is a piano and keys player, trombonist and vocalist mainly working within the free improvised and avant-garde jazz scenes in downtown New York during the late 1970s through to the present day. His greatest impact was during the 80s and 90s when he worked with rising avant-garde star John Zorn on such seminal works as Cobra, Kristallnacht, The Big Gundown, Archery and Spillane and helped push forward modern Jewish music into the 21st century.
At the age of thirteen, Coleman started studying piano with Jaki Byard. At the New England Conservatory he studied with George Russell, Donald Martino and Malcolm Peyton.
Coleman's collaborators over the years have included guitarist Elliott Sharp, trumpeter Dave Douglas, accordion player Guy Klucevsek, composer David Shea, former Captain Beefheart bandmember Gary Lucas, classical and Klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer, guitarist Marc Ribot, bassist Greg Cohen, drummer Joey Baron and saxophonist Roy Nathanson.
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Anton Fier
Anton Fier, (born June 20, 1956), is an American drummer, composer and bandleader. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
Fier was an early member of The Lounge Lizards and The Feelies. He was in The Lodge (with John Greaves), worked with Pere Ubu, was briefly in the Voidoids and founded The Golden Palominos. The 1978 Pere Ubu EP titled "Datapanik in the Year Zero" was dedicated to Fier.
Fier has collaborated extensively with Bill Laswell and also toured and recorded with Hüsker Dü guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Bob Mould.
Fier also played with bassist Jack Bruce and guitarist Kenji Suzuki on the 1987 album Inazuma Super Session - "Absolute Live!!"
Fier played in the band Locus Solus with John Zorn and Arto Lindsay. They recorded a live album for Zorn's 50th birthday celebration: 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 3 of the 50th birthday series on Tzadik.
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Anton Webern
Anton Webern (help·info) (3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of pitch, rhythm and dynamics were formative in the musical technique later known as total serialism.
Webern was born in Vienna, Austria, as Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern. He was the only surviving son of Carl von Webern, a civil servant, and Amelie (née Geer) who was a competent pianist and accomplished singer — the only obvious source of the future composer's talent. He never used his middle names and dropped the von in 1918 as directed by the Austrian government's reforms after World War I. After spending much of his youth in Graz and Klagenfurt, Webern attended Vienna University from 1902. There he studied musicology with Guido Adler, writing his thesis on the Choralis Constantinus of Heinrich Isaac. This interest in early music would greatly influence his compositional technique in later years by employing palindromic form on both the micro- and macro-scale and the economical use of musical materials.
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Antonin Artaud
Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine "little Anthony", and was among a list of names which Artaud used throughout his writing career.
Antonin Artaud was born in Marseille, France, to Euphrasie Nalpas and Antoine-Roi Artaud. Both his parents were natives of Smyrna (modern-day İzmir), and he was greatly affected by his Greek ancestry. His mother gave birth to nine children, but only Antonin and one sister survived infancy. When he was four years old, Artaud had a severe case of meningitis, which gave Artaud a nervous, irritable temperament throughout his adolescence. He also suffered from neuralgia, stammering and severe bouts of clinical depression, which was treated with the use of opium — resulting in a life-long addiction.
Artaud's parents arranged a long series of sanatorium stays for their temperamental son, which were both prolonged and expensive. This lasted five years, with a break of two months in June and July 1916, when Artaud was conscripted into the French Army. He was allegedly discharged due to his self-induced habit of sleepwalking. During Artaud's "rest cures" at the sanatorium, he read Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe. In May 1919, the director of the sanatorium prescribed laudanum for Artaud, precipitating a lifelong addiction to that and other opiates.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg (help·info) (pronounced [ˈaːɐ̯nɔlt ˈʃøːnbɛɐ̯k]; 13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian composer and painter, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. He used the spelling Schönberg until after his move to the United States in 1934 (Steinberg 1995, 463), whereupon he altered it to Schoenberg "in deference to American practice" (Foss 1951, 401), though one writer claims he made the change a year earlier (Ross 2007, 45).
Schoenberg's approach, both in terms of harmony and development, is among the major landmarks of 20th-century musical thought; at least three generations of composers in the European and American traditions have consciously extended his thinking or, in some cases, passionately reacted against it. During the rise of the Nazi Party in Austria, his music was labeled, alongside jazz, as degenerate art[citation needed].
Schoenberg was widely known early in his career for his success in simultaneously extending the traditionally opposed German Romantic styles of Brahms and Wagner. Later, his name would come to personify pioneering innovations in atonality (although Schoenberg himself detested the term "atonality" as inaccurate in describing his intentions) that would become the most polemical feature of 20th-century art music. In the 1920s, Schoenberg developed the twelve-tone technique, a widely influential compositional method of manipulating an ordered series of all twelve notes in the chromatic scale. He also coined the term developing variation, and was the first modern composer to embrace ways of developing motifs without resorting to the dominance of a centralized melodic idea.
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Arto Lindsay
Arthur Morgan Lindsay (born May 28, 1953, Richmond, Virginia) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He is a 1974 graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.
He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style consisting almost entirely of extended techniques, described by Brian Olewnick "studiedly naïve ... sounding like the bastard child of Derek Bailey"; his guitar work is contrasted frequently with gentler, sensuous Brazilian music themes.
Although Lindsay was born in the United States, he spent many years in Brazil with his missionary parents and came of age during the influential Tropicália movement of Brazilian culture, which included musicians Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Os Mutantes and Gilberto Gil, as well as the visual artists Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark and Antonio Dias. This time of cultural experimentation and artistic cross-pollination made an enduring impact on the young Lindsay.
In New York, Lindsay began his artistic ambitions as a writer, but quickly became interested in the art and music scenes that were evolving out of the New York punk rock scene at the time.
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Aviva Slesin
Aviva Slesin is a documentary film-maker.
Slesin was awarded the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary for her film The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table in 1987. She is member of the Directors Guild of America and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Slesin has been a MacDowell Fellow and has had a retrospective of her work shown at the Sundance Film Festival She is a member of the faculty at NYU ’s Tisch School of the Arts. Slesin is also a painter.
Slesin's career was launched in 1975 as a freelance film editor with The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, produced by Shirley MacLaine and nominated that year for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. Next, she edited Making Television Dance about choreographer Twyla Tharp, followed in 1977 by The Rutles, a Beatles satire directed by Monty Python’s Eric Idle.
In 1980, Slesin made the transition to independent Producer/Director with nine comedy shorts for the original Saturday Night Live. In 1986, she directed and edited Directed by William Wyler, a biography of the late Hollywood director.
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Bernard Herrmann
Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures.
An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also composed notable scores for many other movies, including Citizen Kane, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver. He worked extensively in radio drama (most notably for Orson Welles), composed the scores for several fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen, and many TV programs including most notably Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Have Gun–Will Travel.
Herrmann, the son of a Jewish middle class family of Russian origin, was born in New York City. He attended high school at DeWitt Clinton High School, at that time on 10th avenue and 59th Street in New York City. His father encouraged music activity, taking him to the opera, and encouraging him to learn the violin. After winning a $100 composition prize at the age of thirteen, he decided to concentrate on music, and went to New York University where he studied with Percy Grainger and Philip James. He also studied at the Juilliard School and, at the age of twenty, formed his own orchestra, the New Chamber Orchestra of New York.
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Bill Frisell
William Richard "Bill" Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American guitarist, composer and arranger.
One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more. He is known for using an array of effects to create unique sounds from his instrument.
Frisell was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but spent most of his youth in the Denver, Colorado area. He studied clarinet with Richard Joiner of the Denver Symphony Orchestra as a youth, graduated from Denver East High School, and went to the University of Northern Colorado to study music.
His original guitar teacher in the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area was Dale Bruning, with whom Frisell released the 2000 duo album Reunion. After graduating from Northern Colorado, where he studied with Johnny Smith, Frisell went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied with Jon Damian and Jim Hall.
Frisell's major break came when guitarist Pat Metheny was unable to make a recording session, and recommended Frisell to Paul Motian who was recording Psalm (1982) for ECM Records. Frisell became ECM's in-house guitar player, and worked on several albums, most notably Jan Garbarek's 1981 Paths, Prints. Frisell's first solo release was In Line featured solo guitar and duets with bassist Arild Andersen.
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Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955 in Salem, Illinois and raised in Albion, Michigan) is an American bassist, producer and record label owner.
Laswell ranks among the most prolific of modern musicians, being involved in hundreds of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. Laswell's music draws upon many different genres, most notably funk, various world music, jazz, dub and ambient styles. He has also played or produced music from the noisier, more aggressive end of the rock spectrum, such as hardcore punk and metal.
According to music critic Chris Brazier, "Laswell’s pet concept is 'collision music' which involves bringing together musicians from wildly divergent but complementary spheres and seeing what comes out." The credo of one record label run by Laswell, and which typifies much of his work, is “Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted”. Though projects arranged by Laswell may be credited under the same name and often feature the same roster of musicians, the styles and themes explored on different albums can vary dramatically: Material began as a noisy dance music project, but subsequent releases have been centered around hip hop, jazz, or backing spoken word readings by beat generation icon William S. Burroughs. Similarly, most versions of Praxis have featured guitarist Buckethead, but have explored different permutations with each new album.
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Bob Dorough
Bob Dorough (born December 12, 1923) is an American bebop and cool jazz pianist, composer and vocalese singer.
He worked with Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg, and his adventurous style was an influence on Mose Allison, among other singers. He is perhaps best known as a voice and primary composer of many of the songs used in Schoolhouse Rock!, a series of educational animated shorts appearing on Saturday morning television in the 1970s and 1980s on ABC affiliates in the United States. Dorough composed, conducted and played much of the "Schoolhouse Rock!" music. He has released vocal jazz albums periodically over the last 50 years; his latest, Small Day Tomorrow, came out in 2006. He worked with Nellie McKay on her 2007 album, Obligatory Villagers as well as her 2009 release, Normal as Blueberry Pie - A Tribute to Doris Day.
Dorough was born in Arkansas and grew up in Texas. He played in an Army band during World War II, then went to North Texas State University, where he majored in composition and minored in piano. He moved to New York City around 1950 and was playing piano in a Times Square tap dance studio when he was introduced to the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, who had temporarily left boxing and was putting together a song and dance revue. Dorough was hired and later became the show's music director; the revue traveled to various U.S. cities and then to Europe.
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Bobby Previte
Robert "Bobby" Previte (born July 16, 1951, Niagara Falls, New York) is a drummer, composer and bandleader. Previte earned a B.A. in Economics at the University at Buffalo, where he also studied percussion. He moved to New York City in 1979, and became active in the city's thriving jazz and experimental music scenes. He began professional relationships with John Zorn, Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp and others that have continued, intermittently, to the present.
While Previte is a talented drummer he has also received critical acclaim for his "exceptional abilities as a composer and orchestrator." A review of his 1988 album Claude's Late Morning reports that "Perhaps most striking is Previte's skill in composing music that fully integrates these disparate instruments — including drums and drum machine, electric guitar and keyboards, trombone, harp, accordion, banjo, pedal steel guitar, tuba, and harmonica — while emphasizing each instrument's unique, individual sound." Another critic notes Previte's "driving and propulsive compositions, featuring both fiery jazz expressionism and layered counterpoint that suggested elements of contemporary minimalism.
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Buckethead
Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 36 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists. His music spans such diverse areas as progressive metal, funk, blues, jazz, bluegrass, ambient, and avant-garde music.
Buckethead is famously known for wearing a KFC bucket on his head, emblazoned with an orange bumper sticker that reads FUNERAL in capital black block letters, and an expressionless plain white costume mask. He also incorporates nunchucks and robot dancing into his stage performances.
An instrumentalist, Buckethead is best known for his electric guitar playing. He has been voted number 8 on a list in GuitarOne magazine of the "Top 10 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time" as well as being included in Guitar World's lists of the "25 all-time weirdest guitarists" and is also known for being in the "50 fastest guitarists of all time list".
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Burt Bacharach
Burt F. Bacharach ( /ˈbækəræk/ BAK-ə-rak; born May 12, 1928) is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick. Following on with the initial success of this collaboration, Bacharach went on to produce hits with Dusty Springfield, Bobbie Gentry, Jackie DeShannon and others.
As of 2006[update], Bacharach had written 70 Top 40 hits in the U.S., and 52 Top 40 hits in the UK.
Burt Bacharach was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but grew up in the Forest Hills section of New York City, graduating from Forest Hills High School in 1946. He is the son of Irma (née Freeman) and Bert Bacharach, a well-known syndicated newspaper columnist, and is of German-Jewish descent. Bacharach studied music at McGill University, under Helmut Blume, at the Mannes School of Music, and at the Music Academy of the West in Montecito, California. His composition teachers included Darius Milhaud, Henry Cowell, and Bohuslav Martinů. Following service in the Army, Bacharach worked as a pianist, both as a solo player and as an accompanist for singers such as Vic Damone, Polly Bergen, Steve Lawrence, the Ames Brothers and Paula Stewart (who became his first wife). For some years he was musical arranger for Marlene Dietrich as well as touring with her.
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Carl Stalling
Carl W. Stalling (November 10, 1891—November 29, 1972) was an American composer and arranger for music in animated films. He is most closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts produced by Warner Bros., where he averaged one complete score each week, for 22 years.
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Carla Kihlstedt
Carla Kihlstedt is an American violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist from Lancaster, Pennsylvania currently living in Oakland, California.[citation needed]
She is a founding member of Tin Hat Trio (now renamed Tin Hat), Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Book of Knots and Causing a Tiger. Other musical projects include 2 Foot Yard, Charming Hostess and Carla Kihlstedt & Satoko Fujii. She has also worked occasionally on projects with Tom Waits and Fred Frith, and recorded numerous albums as a guest or session musician. Kihlstedt has studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Oberlin Conservatory of Music.[citation needed]
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Carole King
Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, her Tapestry album topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971, and remained on the charts for more than six years.
She was most successful as a performer in the first half of the 1970s, although she was a successful songwriter long before and long after. She had her first number 1 hit as a songwriter in 1961 at age 18, with "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", which she wrote with Goffin. In 1997, she co-wrote "The Reason" for Aerosmith, but instead it was sung by Celine Dion.
In 2000, Joel Whitburn, a Billboard Magazine pop music researcher, named her the most successful female songwriter of 1955–99, because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry. Her most recent non-compilation album is Live at the Troubadour, a collaboration with James Taylor, which reached number 4 on the charts in its first week, and has sold over 600,000 copies.
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (French: [ʃaʁl bodlɛʁ]; April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.
Baudelaire is one of the major innovators in French literature. His poetry is influenced by the French romantic poets of the earlier 19th century, although its attention to the formal features of verse connect it more closely to the work of the contemporary 'Parnassians'. As for theme and tone, in his works we see the rejection of the belief in the supremacy of nature and the fundamental goodness of man as typically espoused by the romantics and expressed by them in rhetorical, effusive and public voice in favor of a new urban sensibility, an awareness of individual moral complexity, an interest in vice (linked with decadence) and refined sensual and aesthetical pleasures, and the use of urban subject matter, such as the city, the crowd, individual passers-by, all expressed in highly ordered verse, sometimes through a cynical and ironic voice. Formally, the use of sound to create atmosphere, and of 'symbols', (images which take on an expanded function within the poem), betray a move towards considering the poem as a self-referential object, an idea further developed by the Symbolists Verlaine and Mallarmé, who acknowledge Baudelaire as a pioneer in this regard.
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Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American modernistcomposer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original". Ives combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones, foreshadowing many musical innovations of the 20th century.
Sources of Ives' tonal imagery are hymn tunes and traditional songs, the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of Stephen Foster.
Charles Ives was born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1874, the son of George Ives, a U.S. Army bandleader in the American Civil War, and his wife Mary Parmelee. A strong influence of Charles's may have been sitting in the Danbury town square, listening to his father's marching band and other bands on other sides of the square simultaneously. George Ives' unique music lessons were also a strong influence on Charles; George Ives took an open-minded approach to musical theory, encouraging his son to experiment in bitonal and polytonal harmonizations. It was from his father that Charles Ives also learned the music of Stephen Foster. Ives became a church organist at the age of 14 and wrote various hymns and songs for church services, including his Variations on 'America' .
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Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.
Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music. Yet Mingus avoided categorization, forging his own brand of music that fused tradition with unique and unexplored realms of jazz.
Mingus focused on collective improvisation, similar to the old New Orleans jazz parades, paying particular attention to how each band member interacted with the group as a whole. In creating his bands, Mingus looked not only at the skills of the available musicians, but also their personalities. Many musicians passed through his bands and later went on to impressive careers. He recruited talented and sometimes little-known artists whom he assembled into unconventional and revealing configurations. As a performer, Mingus was a pioneer in double bass technique, widely recognized as one of the instrument's most proficient players.
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Charlie Haden
Charles Edward Haden (born August 6, 1937) is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. Haden is also known for his signature lyrical bass lines.
Haden was born in Shenandoah, Iowa, and raised in a musical family, which often performed together on the radio playing country music and American folk songs. Haden made his professional debut as a singer when he was two years old, and continued singing with his family until he contracted a mild form of polio when he was 15. The polio damaged his throat muscles and vocal cords, and as a result, Haden was unable to control his pitch while singing. A few years before contracting polio, Haden had become interested in jazz, and began playing his older brother's double bass. Eventually he set his sights on Los Angeles, and to save money for the trip took a job as house bassist for ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee in Springfield, Missouri.
Haden moved to Los Angeles in 1957. His first recordings were made that year with Paul Bley. He began recording with Ornette Coleman shortly after, including the important The Shape of Jazz to Come. Haden's folk-influenced style complemented the microtonal, Texas blues elements of Coleman. Haden would enter Keith Jarrett's trio and his 'American Quartet' from 1967 to 1976 with Paul Motian and Dewey Redman. He also played in the collective Old and New Dreams.
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Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay (b. 11 January 1955, San Rafael, California, USA) is a Swiss-American visual artist and composer.
Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collages, Marclay is, in the words of critic Thom Jurek, perhaps the "unwitting inventor of turntablism." His own use of turntables and records, beginning in the late 1970s, was developed independently of but roughly parallel to hip hop's use of the instrument.
Christian Marclay was born on 11 January 1955 in San Rafael, Marin County, California to a Swiss father and an American mother and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Geneva (1975–1977), the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston (1977–1980, Bachelor of Fine Arts), and the Cooper Union in New York (1978). As a student he was notably interested in Joseph Beuys and the Fluxus movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Long based in Manhattan, Marclay has in recent years divided his time between New York and London.
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Chuck Brown
Chuck Brown (August 22, 1936 – May 16, 2012) was a guitarist and singer who is affectionately called "the Godfather of Go-go". Go-go is a subgenre of funk music developed in and around Washington, D.C. in the mid and late 1970s. While its musical classification, influences, and origins are debated, Brown is regarded as the fundamental force behind the creation of go-go music.
Brown's musical career began in the 1960s playing guitar with Jerry Butler and The Earls of Rhythm, joining Los Latinos in 1965. At the time of his death he was still performing music and was well known in the Washington, DC area. Brown's early hits include "I Need Some Money" and "Bustin' Loose". "Bustin' Loose" has been adopted by the Washington Nationals baseball team as its home run celebration song, and was interpolated by Nelly for his 2002 number one hit "Hot in Herre." Brown also recorded go-go covers of early jazz and blues songs, such as "Go-Go Swing" Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing If Ain't Got That Swing", "Moody's Mood for Love", Johnny Mercer's "Midnight Sun", Louis Jordan's "Run Joe", and T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday".
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Claude Debussy
Claude-Achille Debussy (French pronunciation: [klod aʃil dəbysi]) (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. In France, he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1903. A crucial figure in the transition to the modern era in Western music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.
His music is noted for its sensory component and for not often forming around one key or pitch. Often Debussy's work reflected the activities or turbulence in his own life. In French literary circles, the style of this period was known as symbolism, a movement that directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant.
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Colin Wilson
Colin Henry Wilson (born 26 June 1931) is a prolific English writer who first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. Wilson has since written widely on true crime, mysticism and other topics. He prefers calling his philosophy new existentialism or phenomenological existentialism.
Born and raised in Leicester, England, Wilson left school at 16. He worked in factories and at various occupations, and read in his spare time.Gollancz published the then 24-year-old Wilson's The Outsider in 1956; the work examines the role of the social "outsider" in seminal works of various key literary and cultural figures. These include Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William James, T. E. Lawrence, Vaslav Nijinsky and Vincent van Gogh; Wilson discusses his perception of social alienation in their work. The book became a best-seller and helped popularize existentialism in Britain.
The inside cover's blurb reads:
The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity and the modern mind-set. First published over thirty years ago, it made its youthful author England's most controversial intellectual.
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Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty (September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993), born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 40 #1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006. From 1971-76, Twitty received a string of Country Music Association awards for duets with Loretta Lynn. He was never a member of the Grand Ole Opry, but was inducted into both the Country Music and Rockabilly Halls of Fame.
Conway Twitty was born Harold Jenkins on September 1, 1933 in Friars Point, Mississippi. He was named by his great uncle, after his favorite silent movie actor, Harold Lloyd. The Jenkins family moved to Helena, Arkansas when Harold was ten years old. In Helena Harold formed his first singing group, the Phillips County Ramblers.[citation needed]
Two years later, Harold had his own local radio show every Saturday morning. He also played baseball, his second passion. He received an offer to play with the Philadelphia Phillies after high school (Smiths Station High), but he was drafted into the US Army. He served in the Far East and organized a group called The Cimmerons to entertain fellow GIs.
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Cyro Baptista
Cyro Baptista (born December 23, 1950) is a Brazilian musician, teacher, and recording artist specializing in percussion in the genres of jazz and world music.
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Baptista arrived in the U.S. in 1980 with a scholarship to the Woodstock-based Creative Music Studio. He has recorded and toured regularly with popular musicians and groups. Baptista creates many of the percussion instruments he plays.
Baptista recorded with pianist Herbie Hancock on his 2005 release, Possibilities. In 2002 Baptista toured with Yo-Yo Ma’s Brazil Project and also appeared on the Obrigado Brazil album - winner of two Grammy awards. He also toured with Trey Anastasio of Phish and John Zorn. He recorded and performed worldwide with Herbie Hancock’s Grammy award winning Gershwin’s World. Baptista collaborated with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra for a Brazilian Carnival modern jazz concert. For over two years, he toured with Paul Simon's Rhythm of the Saints tour and appears on his Concert in Central Park release. He also toured worldwide with Sting in 2001.
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David Mahler
David Mahler is a hammered dulcimer player from Texas, United States.
Mahler won first place in the 2004 Walnut Valley National Hammered Dulcimer Championship held in Winfield, Kansas. (Mahler is the youngest national champion in the history of this competition.)
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Ed Blackwell
Ed Blackwell (October 10, 1929 – October 7, 1992) was an American jazz drummer born in New Orleans, Louisiana, known for his extensive, influential work with Ornette Coleman.
Blackwell's early career began in New Orleans in the 1950s. He played in a bebop quintet that included pianist Ellis Marsalis and clarinetist Alvin Batiste. There was also a brief stint touring with Ray Charles. The second line parade music of New Orleans greatly influenced Blackwell's drumming style and could be heard in his playing throughout his career.
Blackwell first came to national attention as the drummer with Ornette Coleman's quartet around 1960, when he took over for Billy Higgins in the quartet's legendary stand at the Five Spot in New York City. He is known as one of the great innovators of the free jazz of the 1960s, fusing New Orleans and African rhythms with bebop. In the 1970s and 1980s Blackwell toured and recorded extensively with fellow Ornette Quartet veterans Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Dewey Redman in the quartet Old and New Dreams.
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Edgard Varèse
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (French pronunciation: [ɛdɡaːʁ viktɔːʁ aʃil ʃaʁl vaʁɛːz]; also spelled Edgar Varèse; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States.
Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized sound", a phrase meaning that certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together, sublimating into a whole new definition of music. Although his complete surviving works only last about three hours, he has been recognised as an influence by several major composers of the late 20th century. His use of new instruments and electronic resources led to his being known as the "Father of Electronic Music" while Henry Miller described him as "The stratospheric Colossus of Sound".
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse was born in Paris, but when he was only a few weeks old, he was sent to be raised by his great-uncle and other relations in the small town of Le Villars in Burgundy region of France. There he developed a very strong attachment to his maternal grandfather, Claude Cortot. Through his mother's family he was related to the pianist Alfred Cortot. His affection for his grandfather outshone anything he would ever feel for his own parents.
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Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp (born Cleveland, Ohio, March 1, 1951) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.
A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He pioneered the use of a lap top computer in live performance with his Virtual Stance project of the 1980s. He has used algorithms and fibonacci numbers in experimental composition since at least 1987. He has cited literature as an inspiration for his music and often favors improvisation. He is an inveterate performer, playing mainly guitar, saxophone and bass clarinet. Sharp has led many ensembles over the years, including the blues-oriented Terraplane and Orchestra Carbon.
Sharp was classically trained in piano from an early age, taking up clarinet and guitar as a teen. He attended Cornell University from 1969 to 1971, studying anthropology, music, and electronics. He completed his B.A. degree at Bard College in 1973, where he studied composition with Benjamin Boretz and Elie Yarden; jazz composition, improvisation, and ethnomusicology with trombonist Roswell Rudd; and physics and electronics with Burton Brody. In 1977 he received an M.A. from the University at Buffalo, where he studied composition with Morton Feldman and Lejaren Hiller, and ethnomusicology with Charles Keil.
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Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne], (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces. Morricone is most famous for his work in the Spaghetti Westerns directed by his friend Sergio Leone, including A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) but his career includes a wide range of composition genres making him one of the film world's most versatile artists. He is considered as one of the most influential film music composers of the 20th century.
Born in Rome, Italy, Morricone took up the trumpet as a child and attended the National Academy of Santa Cecilia to take lessons on the instrument at the age of nine. He formally entered a conservatory at the age of 12, enrolling in a four-year harmony programme. He received his trumpet diploma in 1946 and started working professionally, composing the music to "Il Mattino" ("The Morning"). Morricone soon gained popularity by writing his first background music for radio dramas and quickly moved into film.
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Erik Friedlander
Erik Friedlander is an American cellist and composer based in New York City.
A veteran of NYC's experimental downtown scene, Friedlander has worked in many contexts, but is perhaps best known for his frequent collaborations with saxophonist/composer John Zorn. The LA Times wrote,[citation needed] "Friedlander's performance clearly positions him as the first potential star performer on his instrument."
Friedlander grew up in a home filled with art and music: his father is photographer Lee Friedlander, noted for the cover photographs he took for Atlantic Records. His father's fondness for R&B and jazz helped shape Friedlander's taste in music.
Friedlander started playing guitar at age six and added cello two years later. Apart from his work with Zorn, Friedlander has worked with Laurie Anderson, Courtney Love and Alanis Morissette, and is a member of the jazz/fusion quartet Topaz.
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Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York) is an American improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. Highly eclectic and unconventional, Chadbourne's most formative influence is free jazz. He has also been a reviewer for Allmusic and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll.
Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but quickly grew bored with the form's conventions. He then studied other genres, including blues, country, bluegrass, free jazz, and noise—eventually synthesizing all those heterogeneous influences into a unique style of his own.[citation needed] He was also influenced early on by the experimental stylings of Captain Beefheart and the Mothers of Invention. A notable solo album, Songs (Intakt 026: 1993), features politically oriented originals, such as "Knock on the Door" and "Hello Ceausescu", and covers, such as Nick Drake's "Thoughts of Mary Jane", and Floyd Tillman's "This Cold War With You".
Chadbourne invented an instrument known as the electric rake, made by attaching an electric guitar pickup to an ordinary lawn rake.. He plays a duet of electric rake and classical piano with Bob Wiseman on Wiseman's 1991 Presented By Lake Michigan Soda.
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Extreme Noise Terror
Extreme Noise Terror (often abbreviated to ENT) are a British crust punk / grindcore band originally formed in Ipswich, England in 1985. The band are widely considered one of the earliest and most influential European grindcore bands, and particularly the forefathers of the crustgrind subgenre.
Notable for one of the earliest uses of dual vocalists in hardcore punk, and for recording a number of sessions for BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, Extreme Noise Terror started as a crust punk band and helped characterise the early, archetypal grindcore sound with fiercely political lyrics, grinding guitars, extremely fast tempo and often very short songs.
Extreme Noise Terror were formed in early 1985 in Ipswich, England, originally consisting of dual vocalists Dean Jones and Phil Vane, guitarist Pete Hurley, bassist Jerry Clay and drummer Pig Killer. Prior to ENT, Vane and Hurley had played with Discharge-influenced acts Freestate and Victims of War, whilst Jones had been singing with Raw Noise. Hurley claims that the band name came from an insert for an album by the Dutch band Lärm: "It featured a bandanna-ed hardcore kid with 'Extreme Noise Terror' surrounding him. Those three words summed up exactly what we were aiming at." Aside from Discharge, the band cite as early influences Anti Cimex, Rattus and Antisect, another early proponent of the "one high, one low" vocal approach. ENT signed to the small UK-based indie label Manic Ears after a solitary gig supporting fellow UK punks Chaos UK. Their first release for the label was a split LP with Chaos UK in 1986, entitled Radioactive Earslaughter. Although there were still musical similarities between the two bands, ENT were already beginning to twist hardcore into what would later become known as "grindcore". ENT have however expressed misgivings about the use of the term:
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Eyvind Kang
Eyvindur (Eyvind) Kang (pronounced 'Kong') (b. Corvallis, Oregon, United States, 1971), only child of Charles Shin-Chul Kang and Kristjana Gunnars, is an American composer, violinist, tuba, and erhu player. He was raised in Canada and the United States, and has since lived and worked in countries ranging from Italy to Iceland.
Kang's work is difficult to classify, but can broadly be seen as a classical approach to jazz music with punk, ambient, and traditional folk influences. However, each of his solo efforts is almost in a different genre. Kang has also worked with musicians including Mike Patton, John Zorn, Trey Spruance, Sunn O))), Tim Young, Marc Ribot and Beck, supporting the latter during a 2000 tour of Japan. In addition, he has been a guest musician on many albums, including Bill Frisell's Quartet (1996) and 858 Quartet with music written by Frisell based on the paintings of the German artist Gerhard Richter,Secret Chiefs 3's Book M and playing the viola on five of Laura Veirs' albums.
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Frank London
Frank London is a New York City-based trumpeter, bandleader, and composer active in klezmer and world music. He also plays various other wind instruments and keyboards, and occasionally sings backup vocals. With The Klezmatics, he won a Grammy award in Contemporary World Music for "Wonder Wheel (lyrics by Woody Guthrie)".
London received a B.A. in Afro-American music from the New England Conservatory in 1980. He is on the music faculty of SUNY Purchase.
London is best known for his role as trumpeter in the New York City-based klezmer band The Klezmatics. He is also a member of Hasidic New Wave and leads Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars. He was a co-founder of both Les Misérables Brass Band and the Klezmer Conservatory Band.
In addition to his work in klezmer music, he is in demand as a sideman, and has performed or recorded with such diverse artists and groups as John Zorn, John Cale, Itzhak Perlman, Allen Ginsberg, LL Cool J, Mel Tormé, David Murray, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, La Monte Young, Natalie Merchant, They Might Be Giants, Jane Siberry, Ben Folds Five, Marc Ribot, Reggie Workman, Chava Alberstein, Anne LeBaron, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Luna, Maurice El Medioni, Gal Costa, Ljova (Lev Zhurbin), Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh, Avraham Fried, Iggy Pop, and countless others. He played at Carnegie Hall with Angelique Kidjo, Youssou N'Dour and Omara Portuando. He played the trumpet solo on LL Cool J's "Goin' Back to Cali."
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra, /sɨˈnɑːtrə/, (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and film actor.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the "bobby soxers", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity.
He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 (finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding!, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy. Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and scored hits with "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way".
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Fred Frith
Fred Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor.
Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew. He has collaborated with a number of prominent musicians, including Robert Wyatt, Derek Bailey, The Residents, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn, Brian Eno, Mike Patton, Lars Hollmer, Bill Laswell, Iva Bittová, Jad Fair, the ARTE Quartett and Bob Ostertag. He has also composed several long works, including Traffic Continues (1996, performed 1998 by Frith and Ensemble Modern) and Freedom in Fragments (1993, performed 1999 by Rova Saxophone Quartet). Frith produces most of his own music, and has also produced many albums by other musicians, including Curlew, The Muffins, Etron Fou Leloublan and Orthotonics.
Frith is the subject of Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel's award-winning 1990 documentary film Step Across the Border. He also appears in the Canadian documentary Act of God, which is about the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. Frith has contributed to a number of music publications, including New Musical Express and Trouser Press, and has conducted improvising workshops across the world. Frith's career spans over three decades and he appears on over 400 albums. He still performs actively throughout the world.
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Fred Sherry
Fred Sherry (b. 1948) is an American cello virtuoso who is particularly admired for his work as a chamber musician and concert soloist. He studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School before winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1968. In 1971 he co-founded the Speculum Musicae and in 1973 he co-founded the Tashi Quartet. Since the mid 1980s he has been a regular performer with Bargemusic and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the latter of which he served as Artistic Director for between 1989-1993. He has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. He currently serves on the faculty at the Juilliard School.
With Chick Corea
With John Zorn
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Freddie Redd
Freddie Redd (born May 29, 1928, New York City) is an American hard bop pianist and composer.
After a period in the Army (1946-9) he worked with drummer Johnny Mills, and then in New York played with Tiny Grimes, Cootie Williams, Oscar Pettiford and the Jive Bombers. He toured Sweden in 1956 with Ernestine Anderson and Rolf Ericson. His greatest success came in the late 1950s in the play and movie The Connection, in which he both played and acted in New York City, London, and Paris. He also played on the soundtrack album. His success in the play did not help his career in the United States, however, and shortly after he moved to Europe. He returned to the United States in 1974. Although he has never been able to establish himself in the first rank of jazz figures, he has worked extensively with highly regarded musicians and recorded several albums as leader.
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Gerry Hemingway
Gerry Hemingway (b. New Haven, Connecticut, 1955) is an American jazz composer and percussionist.
He has performed with Ernst Reijseger, Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Leo Smith, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Reggie Workman, Michael Moore, Oliver Lake, Marilyn Crispell, Christy Doran, John Wolf Brennan, Don Byron, Cecil Taylor, and Cuong Vu.
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in music composition in 2000, and was a student of Alan Dawson. He is a graduate of Foote School in New Haven. Hemingway appears on over 100 recordings, on labels including Tzadik, Enja, Palmetto, Random Acoustics, Auricle Records, Clean Feed and Hat Art.
With Anthony Braxton
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Greg Cohen
Greg Cohen is a jazz bassist. He is perhaps best known for his work with John Zorn's Masada quartet; more recently he has been touring with Ornette Coleman, and performed on Coleman's much-praised Sound Grammar album. He has also often played traditional jazz, including work with Ken Peplowski, Kenny Davern and the filmmaker/clarinettist Woody Allen. He has worked with many musicians, including Tom Waits, David Byrne, and Elvis Costello.
His bass playing credits include work with artists such as Dagmar Krause, David Sanborn, Susana Baca, Gal Costa, Marisa Monte, Laurie Anderson, Willie Nelson, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Dave Douglas, Tricky, Jesse Harris, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, Joey Baron, Donovan, Crystal Gayle, Bob Dylan, Alan Watts, Lee Konitz, Richie Havens, Dino Saluzzi, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, Odetta, Danny Barker, Tim Sparks, and Antony and the Johnsons.
In August/September 2006 he was musical director of the Century of Song series at the German arts festival RuhrTriennale. He invited songwriters and performers such as David Byrne, Holly Cole and Laurie Anderson.
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Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake (b. Monroe, Louisiana, August 3, 1955) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He lives in Chicago, IL but spends much of his time traveling around the world for concerts and studio dates.
He first became known for his work with Chicago tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson. Drake was one of the founders, along with Foday Musa Suso and Adam Rudolph, of The Mandingo Griot Society. His other frequent collaborators include New York bassist William Parker, saxophonist David Murray, composer and percussionist Adam Rudolph, German free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, fellow drummer Michael Zerang and Chicago free jazz saxophonist Ken Vandermark. In recent years, Drake has frequently appeared in Hungarian jazz groups, recording with musicians like Viktor Tóth and Mihály Dresch.
In addition to the drum set, he also performs on the frame drum, the tabla, and other hand drums.
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Hank Mobley
Henry (Hank) Mobley (July 7, 1930 – May 30, 1986) was an American hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz. In addition, as his style was laid-back, subtle and melodic, especially in contrast with players like Sonny Rollins and Coltrane. The critic Stacia Proefrock claimed he is "one of the more underrated musicians of the bop era."
Mobley was born in Eastman, Georgia, but was raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, near Newark. When he was 16, an illness kept him in the house for several months. His uncle thought of buying a saxophone to help him occupy his time. It was then that Mobley began to play sax. He tried to enter a music school in Newark, but couldn't, since he was not a resident, so he kept studying through books at home. At 19, he started to play with local bands and, months later, worked for the first time with musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach. He took part in one of the earliest hard bop sessions, alongside Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins and trumpeter Kenny Dorham. The results of these sessions were released as Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers. They contrasted with the classical pretensions of cool jazz, with Mobley's rich lyricism being bluesier, alongside the funky approach of Horace Silver. When The Jazz Messengers split in 1956, Mobley continued on with pianist Horace Silver for a short time, although he did work again with Blakey some years later, when the drummer appeared on Mobley's albums in the early 1960s.
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Harry Everett Smith
Harry Everett Smith (May 29 , 1923, Portland, Oregon – November 27, 1991, New York City) was an American archivist, ethnomusicologist, student of anthropology, record collector, experimental filmmaker, artist, bohemian and mystic. Besides his films, Smith is widely known for the Anthology of American Folk Music.
The Anthology of American Folk Music was a compilation of recordings of American folk and country music commercially released as 78 rpm records between 1926 and 1932. The anthology was released in 1952 on Folkways Records as three two-LP sets. In 1997, the album was re-released as a boxed set of six compact discs on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. In 2000, a fourth installment of the anthology, conceived of in the '50s but abandoned, became available on Revenant Records in 2000.
This document is generally thought to have been enormously influential on the folk & blues revival of the '50s and '60s, and brought the works of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Mississippi John Hurt, Dick Justice and many others to the attention of musicians such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, and featured such legendary acts as The Carter Family and Clarence Ashley. The Harry Smith Anthology, as some call it, was the bible of folk music during the late 1950s and early 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene. As stated in the liner notes to the 1997 reissue, the late musician Dave van Ronk had earlier commented that "we all knew every word of every song on it, including the ones we hated."
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (sometimes spelled Strawinsky or Stravinskii; Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, transliterated: Igorʹ Fëdorovič Stravinskij; Russian pronunciation: [ˌiɡərʲ ˌfʲjodɐrɐvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj]; 17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian, and later French and American composer, pianist and conductor. He is acknowledged by many as one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century.
Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913). The Rite of Spring, which provoked a riot during its premiere, transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design. His so-called Russian phase was followed in the 1920s by a period in which he turned to neoclassical music. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms (concerto grosso, fugue and symphony). They frequently concealed a vein of intense emotion beneath a surface appearance of detachment or austerity and often paid tribute to the music of earlier masters, for example J.S. Bach and Tchaikovsky. In the 1950s, Stravinsky adopted serial procedures. His compositions of this period shared traits with examples of his earlier output: rhythmic energy, the construction of extended melodic ideas out of a few two- or three-note cells and clarity of form, of instrumentation and of utterance.
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Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori (もりいくえ, Mori Ikue?) (born 17 December 1953, Tokyo, Japan), also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, composer, and graphic designer.
Ikue Mori was born and raised in Japan. She says she had little interest in music before hearing punk rock. In 1977, she went to New York City, initially for a visit, but she fell into the music scene, and has remained in New York since.
Her first musical experience was as the drummer for seminal no wave band DNA, which also featured East Village hero Arto Lindsay. Though she had little prior musical experience (and had never played drums), Mori quickly developed a distinctive style: One critic describes her as "a tight, tireless master of shifting asymmetrical rhythm", while Lester Bangs wrote that she "cuts Sunny Murray in my book" His comment is no small praise, as Murray is widely considered a major free jazz drummer.
After DNA disbanded, Mori became active in the New York experimental music scene. She abandoned her drum set, and began playing drum machines, which she sometimes modified to play various samples. According to Mori, she was trying to make the drum machines "sound broken." Critic Adam Strohm writes that she "founded a new world for the instrument, taking it far beyond backing rhythms and robotic fills." In recent years she has used a laptop as her primary instrument, but is still sometimes credited with "electronic percussion".
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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history. He published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907 and had his first major international hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911.
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" sparked an international dance craze in places as far away as Berlin's native Russia, which also "flung itself into the ragtime beat with an abandon bordering on mania." Over the years he was known for writing music and lyrics in the American vernacular: uncomplicated, simple and direct, with his aim being to "reach the heart of the average American" whom he saw as the "real soul of the country."
He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which made him "a legend" before he turned thirty. During his 60-year career he wrote an estimated 1,500 songs, including the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films, with his songs nominated eight times for Academy Awards. Many songs became popular themes and anthems, including "Easter Parade", "White Christmas", "Happy Holiday", "This is the Army, Mr. Jones", and "There's No Business Like Show Business". His Broadway musical and 1942 film, This is the Army, with Ronald Reagan, had Kate Smith singing Berlin's "God Bless America" which was first performed in 1938. Smith still performed the song on her 1960 CBS television series, The Kate Smith Show. After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Celine Dion recorded it as a tribute, making it #1 on the charts.
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Jamie Saft
Jamie Saft is a keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer and producer living in upstate NY. Saft was born in Flushing Queens, New York in 1971 and is a graduate of both Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music. He has performed and recorded with John Zorn, Bobby Previte, Merzbow and many others. He has also written several original film scores including Murderball and God Grew Tired of Us. Saft can be seen playing live in Bobby Previte, Jamie Saft, Skerik - Live in Japan 2003 (DVD - Word Public). In 2006 he also contributed to Bobby Previte's Coalition of the Willing.
One of Saft's many projects is the Jamie Saft Trio with Ben Perowsky (drums) and Greg Cohen (acoustic bass). In 2006 the trio released Trouble: The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan (CD - Tzadik).
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Jan Hammer
Jan Hammer (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈɦamɛr]) (born 17 April 1948, in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, today the Czech Republic) is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s, as well as his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s program, Miami Vice. He continued to work as both a musical performer and producer, expanding to producing film later in his career.
Hammer has collaborated with some of the era's most influential jazz and rock musicians such as Jeff Beck, Al Di Meola, Mick Jagger, Carlos Santana, Stanley Clarke, Neal Schon, Steve Lukather, and Elvin Jones among many others. He has composed and produced at least 14 original motion picture soundtracks, the music for 90 episodes of Miami Vice and 20 episodes of the popular British television series Chancer.
His compositions have won him several Grammy awards.[citation needed]
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Jean Genet
Jean Genet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʒəˈnɛ]) ((1910-12-19)December 19, 1910 – April 15, 1986(1986-04-15)) was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Blacks, The Maids and The Screens.
Genet's mother was a young prostitute who raised him for the first year of his life before putting him up for adoption. Thereafter Genet was raised in the provinces by a carpenter and his family who, according to Edmund White's biography, were loving and attentive. While he received excellent grades in school, his childhood involved a series of attempts at running away and incidents of petty theft (although White also suggests that Genet's later claims of a dismal, impoverished childhood were exaggerated to fit his outlaw image).
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Jennifer Choi
Jennifer Choi is an American violinist based in New York City. Choi graduated from the Juilliard School and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Choi has performed in a variety of settings including solo violin, chamber music, and creative improvisation and performed with the Oregon Symphony, the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Youth Philharmonic, and the String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC).
Choi has collaborated with artists such as Fred Sherry, Stephen Drury, members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Corigliano and Miró Quartet and is a member of the Susie Ibarra Trio, Fireworks New Music Ensemble, the Either/Or Ensemble, and the Sirius Quartet. She joined the string quartet ETHEL in 2011.
Choi has performed and recorded works by contemporary composers such as John Zorn, Christian Wolff, Lee Hyla, Neil Rolnick, and Randall Woolf.
In 2000, an asteroid, 18175 Jenniferchoy, was named for her.[citation needed]
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Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008), known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, innovative guitarist, songwriter, and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included "Guitar Man," "A Thing Called Love," "Alabama Wild Man," "Amos Moses", "When You're Hot, You're Hot" (which garnered a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance), "Ko-Ko Joe", "Lord, Mr. Ford", "East Bound and Down" (the theme song for the 1977 blockbuster Smokey and the Bandit, in which Reed co-starred), "The Bird," and "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)".
Reed was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the second child of Robert and Cynthia Hubbard. Reed's grandparents lived in Rockmart and he would visit them from time to time. He was quoted as saying as a small child, while running around strumming his guitar, "I am gonna be a star. I'm gonna go to Nashville and be a star." Reed's parents separated four months after his birth, and he and his sister spent seven years in foster homes or orphanages. Reed was reunited with his mother and stepfather in 1944. Music and impromptu performances helped ease the stressful times the new family was under.[citation needed]
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Jewlia Eisenberg
Jewlia Eisenberg is an American composer. As founder and bandleader of Charming Hostess she coined the term "Nerdy-Sexy-Commie-Girly" to describe her genre of music which spans an eclectic range of styles.
Originally from New York City, Eisenberg became an integral member of the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York Downtown music scenes in the 1990s.
Her music is both physical, using voices, vocal percussion, handclaps, heartbeats, sex-breath and silence and also intellectual, exploring such topics as Bosnian genocide in Sarajevo Blues (2004) and the political/erotic nexus of Walter Benjamin and his Marxist muse in Trilectic (2002). Both of these works were released on John Zorn's Radical Jewish Series on Tzadik.
She has been commissioned from such sources as by the Sloan Foundation and the Goethe Institut SF and has received numerous awards, including: Trust for Mutual Understanding grant for collaboration with poets in ex-Yugoslavia, the Puffin Foundation grant for her Red Rosa project, a Katzenstein Fellow for collaboration with experimental architects and engineers as an Artist-In-Residence at MIT, a Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund Grant for 'The Grim Arithmetic of Water, with aerial dance choreographer Jo Kreiter, a Goldman Fund Tikea Fellow for project-based radical film and music work with youth, and a Weisz Fellow for field research and recording among Jewish women in the Gondar region of Ethiopia. Eisenberg enjoyed a retreat as part of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in October–November 2006.
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Joey Baron
Joey Baron (born June 26, 1955 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer probably best known for his work with Bill Frisell, Stan Getz, Steve Kuhn, and John Zorn. He has also performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, David Bowie, Tony Bennett, Carmen McRae, Laurie Anderson, John Scofield, Al Jarreau, Michael Jackson, Jim Hall, Eric Vloeimans, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Pepper, John Abercrombie and Tim Berne. His own groups he has led include the "Down Home Group", Barondown, Killer Joey, and Eliane Elias.
With John Abercrombie
With the Toshiko Akiyoshi
With Laurie Anderson
With Tim Berne
With David Bowie
With Dave Douglas
With Mark Feldman
With Bill Frisell
With Fred Frith
With Richard Galliano
With Jim Hall
With Fred Hersch
With Mark Johnson
With Haino Keiji
With Steve Kuhn
With Joe Lovano
With Carmen McRae
With Enrico Pieranunzi
With John Scofield
With John Taylor
With Toots Thielemans
With John Zorn
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John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer. He has had experience with a variety of genres including jazz, rock, hardcore punk, classical, extreme metal, klezmer, film, cartoon, popular, and improvised music. Zorn brings these styles to his work, which he refers to with the label avant-garde/experimental.
Zorn has stated: "All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I'm an additive person - the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can't see the connections, but they are there."
Zorn has led the punk jazz band Naked City and the klezmer-influenced quartet Masada, composed Masada Songbooks (written concert music for classical ensembles), and has produced music for film and documentary.
Zorn established himself within the New York City downtown music movement in the mid 1970s and has since composed and performed with a wide range of musicians working in diverse musical areas. By the early 1990s Zorn was working extensively in Japan, attracted by that culture's openness about borrowing and remixing ingredients from elsewhere, before returning to New York as a permanent base in the mid-1990s. Zorn has undertaken many tours of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, often performing at festivals with varying ensembles to display his diverse output.
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Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈbɔʏs]; May 12, 1921 – January 23, 1986) was a German Fluxus, Happening and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.
His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by passionate, even acrimonious public debate, but he is now regarded as one of the most influential German artists of the second half of the 20th century.
Joseph Beuys was born in Krefeld, the son of the merchant Josef Jakob Beuys (1888–1958) and Johanna Maria Margarete Beuys (born Hülsermann, 1889–1974). The parents had moved from Geldern to Krefeld in 1910, and Beuys was born there on May 12, 1921. In autumn of that year the family moved to Kleve, an industrial town in the Lower Rhine region of Germany, close to the Dutch border. There, Joseph attended primary school (Katholische Volksschule) and secondary/high- school (Staatliches Gymnasium Cleve, now the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium). His teachers considered him to have a talent for drawing; he also took piano- and cello lessons. On several occasions he visited the studio of the Flemish painter and sculptor Achilles Moortgat. Other interests of note include Nordic history and mythology and especially the natural sciences. According to his own account, when the Nazi Party staged their book-burning in Kleve on May 19, 1933 in the courtyard of his school, he salvaged the book Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus "...from that large, flaming pile".
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Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker.
Joseph Cornell was born in Nyack, New York, to Joseph Cornell, a well-to-do designer and merchant of textiles, and Helen TenBroeck Storms Cornell, who had trained as a kindergarten teacher. The Cornells had four children: Joseph, Elizabeth (b. 1905), Helen (b. 1906), and Robert (b. 1910). Both parents came from socially prominent families of Dutch ancestry, long-established in New York State. Cornell's father died in 1917, leaving the family in strained circumstances. Following the elder Cornell's death, his wife and children moved to the borough of Queens in New York City. Cornell attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in the class of 1921, although he did not graduate.
Except for the three and a half years he spent at Phillips, he lived for most of his life in a small, wooden-frame house on Utopia Parkway in a working-class area of Flushing, along with his mother and his brother Robert, whom cerebral palsy had rendered physically challenged.
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Justin Broadrick
Justin Karl Michael Broadrick (born 15 August 1969, Birmingham, England) is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist and drummer. He is best known as a founding member of the band Godflesh, one of the first bands to combine elements of extreme metal and industrial music.[citation needed] Broadrick has also maintained a parallel career as a producer, producing records and remixes for groups such as Pantera, Isis, and Hydra Head labelmates Pelican. Broadrick has set up record labels such as HeadDirt, Avalanche, Post Mortem Productions (briefly renamed Uprising Productions) and Lo Fibre.
Broadrick was born on August 15 in 1969 in the council estates of inner Birmingham. For the first 4 years of his life he was brought up by his mother and stepfather in a hippie commune. Justin's real father was a heroin addict. By the age of ten, Broadrick was surrounded by the punk-rock that his parents listened to. "The first thing I probably heard out of the house, when I was about 11 years old, was Crass," says Broadrick. "By the age of 12 I fell into early industrial music, stuff like Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse." Justin began to play with his stepfather's guitar, who was then into Can, Roxy Music and Brian Eno.
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Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino (灰野 敬二 Haino Keiji) born May 3, 1952 in Chiba, Japan, and currently residing in Tokyo, is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise music, percussion, psychedelic music, minimalism and drone music. He has been active since the 1970s and continues to record regularly and in new styles.
Haino's initial artistic outlet was theatre, inspired by the radical writings of Antonin Artaud. An epiphanic moment came when he heard The Doors' "When The Music's Over" and changed course towards music. After brief stints in a number of blues and experimental outfits, he formed improvised rock band Lost Aaraaf in 1970. In the mid 1970s, having left Lost Aaraaf, he collaborated with psychedelic multi-instrumentalist Magical Power Mako and film soundtrack composer Toru Takemitsu.
His musical output throughout the late 1970s is scarcely documented, until the formation of his rock duo Fushitsusha in 1978 (although their first LP did not surface until 1989). This outfit initially consisted of Haino on guitar and vocals, and Tamio Shiraishi on synthesizer. With the departure of Shiraishi and the addition of Jun Hamano (bass) and Shuhei Takashima (drums), Fushitsusha operated as a trio. The lineup soon changed, with Yasushi Ozawa (bass) and Jun Kosugi (drums) performing throughout the 1990s, but returned to a duo with Haino supplementing percussion with tape-loops.
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Kenny Dorham
McKinley Howard (Kenny) Dorham (August 30, 1924 – December 5, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians, but he never received the kind of attention from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did or public recognition. For this reason, his name has become (in the words of writer Gary Giddins) "virtually synonymous with underrated." He also composed the jazz standard "Blue Bossa," which first appeared on Joe Henderson's album Page One.
Dorham was one of the most active bebop trumpeters. He played in the big bands of Lionel Hampton, Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton and Mercer Ellington and the quintet of Charlie Parker. He was a charter member of the original cooperative Jazz Messengers. He also recorded as a sideman with Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins, and he replaced Clifford Brown in the Max Roach Quintet after Brown's death in 1956. In addition to sideman work, he led his own groups, including the Jazz Prophets (formed shortly after Art Blakey took over the Jazz Messengers name). The Jazz Prophets, featuring a young Bobby Timmons on piano, bassist Sam Jones and tenorman J. R. Monterose with guest Kenny Burrell on guitar, recorded a live album 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia in 1956 for Blue Note.
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Kenny Wollesen
Kenny Wollesen is an American drummer and percussionist.
Wollesen lives in New York City. He has recorded and toured with many musicians including Tom Waits, Sean Lennon, Ron Sexsmith, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Steven Bernstein and John Zorn. He is a founding member of the New Klezmer Trio and a member of the Sex Mob group. He also performs on popular children's show The Backyardigans.
With David Byrne
With Bill Frisell
With Rickie Lee Jones
With Sean Lennon
With Ruper Ordorika
With John Patton
With Madeleine Peyroux
With John Scofield
With John Zorn
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Laurie Anderson
Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety of different performance-art activities. She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.
Anderson is a pioneer in electronic music and has invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a talking stick, a six-foot-long baton-like MIDI controller that can access and replicate different sounds.
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Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz (born October 13, 1927) is an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.
Generally considered one of the driving forces of Cool Jazz, Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde settings. Konitz was one of the few altoists to retain a distinctive sound in the 40s, when Charlie Parker exercised a tremendous influence on other players.
Konitz, like other students of pianist and theoretician Lennie Tristano, was noted for improvising long, melodic lines with the rhythmic interest coming from odd accents, or odd note groupings suggestive of the imposition of one time signature over another. Paul Desmond and, especially, Art Pepper were strongly influenced by Konitz.
Konitz's association with the Cool Jazz movement of the 1940s and 50s, includes participation in Miles Davis' epochal Birth of the Cool sessions, and his work with Lennie Tristano came from the same period. During his long career, Konitz has played with musicians from a wide variety of jazz styles.
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Leonardo Balada
Leonardo Balada (born September 22, 1933, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain), is a Catalan American composer, now teaching and composing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
After studying piano at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona, in 1956 he emigrated to the United States to study at the Juilliard School in New York, from which he graduated in 1960. He studied composition with Vincent Persichetti, Alexandre Tansman and Aaron Copland, and conducting with Igor Markevitch. In 1981, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Since 1970 he has been teaching at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
His works in the early 1960s are somewhat neo-classical in nature, but the composer was dissatisfied and in 1966 saw a change to an avant-garde style, producing such works like Guernica. The composer felt a need for a change again in 1975, and the works from then onwards are characterized by the combination of folk dance rhythms with avant-garde techniques of the previous period. Harmonically, there is a combination of tonality (folk music) with atonality. Works marking this new trend including Homage to Sarasate and Homage to Casals.
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Liberace
Wladziu (or Vładziu) Valentino Liberace (/lɪbərˈɑːtʃi/ lib-ər-AH-chee; May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), best known simply as Liberace, was a famous American pianist and vocalist.
In a career that spanned four decades of concerts, recordings, motion pictures, television and endorsements, Liberace became world-renowned. During the 1950s–1970s he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world and embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off the stage.
Liberace, known as "Lee" to his friends and "Walter" to family, was born in West Allis, Wisconsin, a Milwaukee suburb, to Frances Zuchowska (August 31, 1892 – November 1, 1980), who was of Polish descent, and Salvatore ("Sam") Liberace (December 9, 1885 – April 1, 1977), an emigrant from Formia, Italy. He had a twin who died at birth and he was born with a caul, which in his family, as in many societies, was taken as a sign of genius and an exceptional future. Liberace's father was a musician who played the French horn in bands and movie theaters but sometimes had to work as a factory worker or laborer. While his father encouraged music in the family, his mother was not musical and thought music lessons and a record player to be luxuries they couldn't afford, causing angry family disputes. Liberace later stated, "My dad's love and respect for music created in him a deep determination to give as his legacy to the world, a family of musicians dedicated to the advancement of the art".
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Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed, born March 2, 1942, is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his solo career, which has spanned several decades. Though the Velvet Underground were a commercial failure in the late 1960s, the group has gained a considerable cult following in the years since its demise and has gone on to become one of the most widely cited and influential bands of the era. As the Velvet Underground's principal songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience that rarely had been examined so openly in rock and roll, including sexuality and drug culture.
After his departure from the group, Reed began a solo career in 1971. He had a hit the following year with "Walk on the Wild Side", although he subsequently lacked the mainstream commercial success its chart status seemed to indicate. Reed's work as a solo artist frustrated critics wishing for a return of the Velvet Underground. In 1975, Reed released a double album of feedback loops, Metal Machine Music, upon which he later commented, "No one is supposed to be able to do a thing like that and survive."
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Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot ( /ˈriːboʊ/; born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.
His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.
Ribot was born in Newark, New Jersey. He has worked extensively as a session guitarist. He has performed and recorded with Tom Waits, John Zorn, David Sylvian, Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, The Lounge Lizards, Arto Lindsay, T-Bone Burnett, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Cibo Matto, Elysian Fields, Sam Phillips, Elvis Costello, David Poe, Allen Ginsberg, Foetus, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Susana Baca, The Black Keys, Stan Ridgway, Vinicio Capossela, Alain Bashung, Lyenn, Hector Zazou, McCoy Tyner, Elton John, Madeline Peyroux, Marianne Faithfull, Leonid Fedorov, Tonio K, Andres Calamaro, Anarchist Republic of Bzzz and others.
Ribot's earliest session work was featured on Tom Waits' Rain Dogs (1985) and helped define Waits' new musical direction. Ribot worked with Waits on many of his following albums including Franks Wild Years (1987), Mule Variations (1999), Real Gone (2004) and Bad as Me (2011). He has appeared on Elvis Costello's Spike, Mighty Like a Rose (1991), and Kojak Variety (1995). Ribot has appeared on numerous recordings by John Zorn, including many of Zorn's Filmworks recordings, solo performances on Zorn's Masada Guitars (also featuring Bill Frisell and Tim Sparks), and is a member of Zorn's Bar Kokhba Sextet and Electric Masada . Ribot's first two albums featured The Rootless Cosmopolitans, followed by an album of works by Frantz Casseus for solo guitar. Further releases found him working in a variety of band and solo contexts including two albums with his self-described "dance band", Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos (The Prosthetic Cubans), featuring compositions by Arsenio Rodríguez.
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Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968; French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl dyˈʃɑ̃]) was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art during this period.
Duchamp challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and art marketing, not so much by writing, but through subversive actions. He famously dubbed a urinal art and named it Fountain, though in a 1917 letter to his sister Duchamp indicates that a female friend, possibly the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, conceived of the urinal as sculpture and sent it to him under the pseudonym Richard Mutt. Duchamp produced relatively few artworks, while moving quickly through the avant-garde circles of his time.
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Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras (pronounced: [maʁ.ɡə.ʁit dy.ʁas]) (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996) was a French writer and film director.
She was born in Gia-Dinh (a former name for Saigon), French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging people to work in the colony.
Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival, and returned to France, where he died. After his death, her mother, a teacher, remained in Indochina with her ten children. The family lived in relative poverty after her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of farmland in Cambodia. The difficult life that the family experienced during this period was highly influential on Marguerite's later work. An affair between the teenaged Marguerite and a Chinese man was to be treated several times (described in quite contrasting ways) in her subsequent memoirs and fiction. She also reported being beaten by both her mother and her older brother during this period.
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Maria Beatty
Maria Beatty is a New York filmmaker who directs, acts, and produces. Her films are often made in black and white and cover various aspects of female sexuality including BDSM and fetishism. She was inspired by expressionist German cinema, by French surrealism and American film noir.
She sometimes stars in her own films, such as The Elegant Spanking (1995) and The Black Glove (1997). In 2007 she won the FICEB Best Director award for Silken Sleeves.
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Marie Menken
Marie Menken (born "Marie Menkevicius", May 25, 1909 – December 29, 1970), was an American experimental filmmaker, painter, and socialite. She is noted for her unique filming style that incorporated collage as well as a strong influence from her background in painting.
Menken was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 25, 1909, to a Catholic-Lituanian immigrant couple. She studied at the New York School of Fine and Industrial Arts as well as the Art Students League of New York and honed her craft as a painter. To support herself, she worked as a secretary at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum before receiving a scholarship from Yaddo and moving to upstate New York.
Menken and her husband Willard Maas began a well-respected avant-garde art group known as The Gryphon Group in the mid-1940s. It was around this time that Menken, bored of the static nature of paint on canvas, began to experiment with film. She released her first film Visual Variations on Noguchi in 1945 to acclaim within the experimental art circles of the time. She used a hand-held and hand-cranked 16mm Bolex camera for this as well as many of her later films, contributing to the spontaneity and agility of her work. Noguchi is a non-narrative film that combines quick, decontextualized shots of the sculptures of Isamu Noguchi with shrill, discordant music.
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Marina Rosenfeld
Marina Rosenfeld is an American composer, sound artist and visual artist based in New York.
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Mark Dresser
Mark Dresser (b. 1952 in Los Angeles) is an American double bass player and composer.
He has performed and recorded with many of the luminaries of "new" jazz composition and improvisation. For ten years he performed with the Anthony Braxton Quartet, as well as diverse groups led by Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Anthony Davis, Gerry Hemingway, John Zorn, and others. He has made over sixty recordings.
He has received grants from New York Foundation for the Arts and Meet the Composer, as well as fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and Civitella Ranieri. He holds both B.A. and M.A. degrees in music from the University of California, San Diego where he studied contrabass with the seminal virtuoso of twentieth century performance practice, Maestro Bertram Turetzky. He was awarded a 1983 Fulbright Fellowship for advanced contrabass study with Maestro Franco Petracchi.
Dresser has been composing and performing solo contrabass and ensemble music professionally since 1972 throughout North America, Europe and the Far East. His own projects include Mark Dresser's "Force Green," and the Mark Dresser Trio, performing his music for the French Surrealist film masterpiece of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, Un chien andalou as well as the German expressionist silent film classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
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Mark Feldman
Mark Feldman (born 1955 in Chicago) is an American jazz violinist.
Feldman worked in Chicago from 1973 to 1980, and in Nashville, Tennessee from 1980 to 1986. He worked in New York City and Western Europe from 1986. Feldman often works with John Zorn, Sylvie Courvoisier, John Abercrombie, The Masada String Trio, Dave Douglas, Uri Caine, and Billy Hart. He has played on recordings by Michael Brecker, Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano, and Chris Potter. At New York's Lincoln Center he played in duo with pianists Paul Bley and Muhal Richard Abrams. In 2010 Feldman Released two Recordings. "Oblivia" a duo recording of original music with pianist/composer Sylvie Courvoisier on Tzadik Records. "To Fly To Steal" with the Mark Feldman/Sylvie Courvoisier Quartet Featuring Bassist Thomas Morgan And Drummer Gerry Hemmingway on The Swiss Label Intakt. In 2006, Feldman's recording What Exit was released on ECM,which featured British Pianist John Taylor. In 1995 he released Music for Violin Alone, a collection of his Improvisations for Solo Violin, on Tzadik Records. In 2000 he released Book of Tells on Enja Records, a recording of his compositions for string quartet.
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Martin Bisi
Martin Bisi is an American producer and songwriter. He is known for recording important records by Sonic Youth, Swans, John Zorn, Material, Bill Laswell, Helmet, Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, White Zombie, Boredoms, Angels of Light and Herbie Hancock's Grammy-winning song Rockit.
In 1979, Martin Bisi started BC Studio with Bill Laswell and Brian Eno in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, where he recorded many of the No Wave, punk bands, and hip-hop of the early 1980s including Lydia Lunch, Foetus, Live Skull, and Afrika Bambaata. In 1982 he recorded the instruments for Whitney Houston's first recoded appearance as a lead singer -the song "Memories" on Material's One Down LP.
In 2002 Bisi recorded The Dresden Dolls' critically acclaimed debut album, and in 2005, mixed the surprise break-out CD by Serena Maneesh of Norway.
Starting with a solo record in 1988 - Creole Mass (New Alliance/SST) - Bisi also recorded his own material. Other solo works were All Will Be Won (LP -1992), See Ya In Tiajuana (EP -1994), Dear Papi I'm In Jail (EP -1996), Milkyway Of Love (LP -1999), and more recently in 2008, Sirens Of The Apocalypse (full-length), and Son Of A Gun (EP) in 2010.
Son Of A Gun features guests Bill Laswell, Brian Viglione of The Dresden Dolls, and Bob D'Amico of The Fiery Furnaces.
2009 saw Bisi's first extensive touring, both in the US and Europe
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Mauricio Kagel
Mauricio Kagel (December 24, 1931 – September 18, 2008) was a German-Argentine composer. He was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance (Grimshaw 2009).
Kagel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into a Jewish family which fled from Russia in the 1920s (Anon. [n.d.]). He studied music, history of literature, and philosophy in Buenos Aires (Grimshaw 2009). In 1957 he came as a scholar to Cologne, Germany, where he lived until his death.
From 1960–66 and 1972–76, he taught at the International Summer School at Darmstadt (Attinello 2001).
He taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1964 to 1965 as Slee Professor of music theory and at the Berlin Film and Television Academy as a visiting lecturer. He served as director of courses for new music in Gothenburg and Cologne (Attinello 2001). He was professor for new music theatre at the Cologne Conservatory from 1974 to 1997.
Invited by Walter Fink, he was the second composer featured in the annual Komponistenporträt of the Rheingau Musik Festival in 1991. In 2000 he received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.
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Maya Deren
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City), born Eleanora Derenkowsky (Russian: Элеоно́ра Деренко́вская), was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer.
Deren was born in Kiev, present-day Ukraine, to psychologist Solomon Derenkowsky and Marie Fiedler, who supposedly named her after Italian actress Eleanora Duse.
In 1922, the family moved to Syracuse, New York. Her father shortened the family name to "Deren" shortly after they arrived in New York. He became the staff psychiatrist at the State Institute for the Feeble-Minded in Syracuse.
In 1928, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Her mother moved to Paris to be with her daughter while she attended the League of Nations School in Geneva, Switzerland from 1930 to 1933.
Deren began college at Syracuse University, where she became active in the Trotskyist Young People's Socialist League (1907). Through the YPSL she met Gregory Bardacke, whom she later married at the age of eighteen. After his graduation in 1935, she moved to New York City. She and her husband became active in various socialist causes in New York City. She graduated from New York University and separated from Bardacke. The divorce was finalized in 1939. She attended the New School for Social Research and received a master’s degree in English literature at Smith College. Her master's thesis was titled "The Influence of the French Symbolist School on Anglo-American Poetry" (1939).
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Merzbow
Merzbow (メルツバウ, Merutsubau?) is the main recording name of the Japanese noise musician Masami Akita (秋田 昌美, Akita Masami?), born in 1956. Since 1979 he has released in excess of 350 recordings.
The name "Merzbow" comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork, "Merzbau”. This was chosen to reflect Akita's dada influence and junk art aesthetic. In addition to this, Akita has cited a wide range of influences from progressive rock, free jazz, modern classical and musique concrète to BDSM and Japanese bondage. More recently he has been inspired by animals, animal rights and environmentalism.
As well as being a prolific musician, he has been a writer and editor for several books and magazines in Japan, and has written 17 books of his own. He has written about a variety of subjects, mostly about art, avant-garde and post-modern culture. His more renowned works have been on the topics of BDSM and fetish culture. Other art forms Akita has been interested in include painting, photography, filmmaking and Butoh dance.
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Mick Harris
Mick Harris (born Michael John Harris, 1967, Birmingham) commonly known and credited both as Mick Harris or occasionally M.J. Harris, is an English musician.
Harris started out in the 1980s as a drummer working with various punk rock and grindcore bands (most notably pioneering grindcore band Napalm Death); as a drummer he is generally credited with popularizing the blast beat, which has since become a key component of much of extreme metal and grindcore. Since the mid-1990s, Harris has worked primarily in electronic and ambient music, his main projects being Scorn and Lull. According to Allmusic, Harris's "genre-spanning activities have done much to jar the minds, expectations, and record collections of audiences previously kept aggressively opposed."
Harris' recording debut was as Napalm Death's second drummer, joining after founding member Miles "The Rat" Ratledge left the band in November 1985. His first live appearance with the band was on 18 January 1986, opening for Amebix. Harris was the driving force behind the band's seminal Scum album and the second release From Enslavement to Obliteration. A subsequent review of From Enslavement to Obliteration in the punk/indie fanzine Flipside went as follows: "This sounds like someone is literally firing a fully automatic rifle while a bassist and guitarist try to keep up."
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Mike Patton
Michael Allan "Mike" Patton (born January 27, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the experimental rock/alternative metal band Faith No More. He was also the founder and lead singer of Mr. Bungle, and has played with Tomahawk, Fantômas, Lovage, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Peeping Tom.
Known for his eclectic influences and experimental projects, Patton has earned critical praise for his diverse vocalization. He has many producer or co-producer credits with artists such as John Zorn, Sepultura, Melvins, Melt-Banana, and Kool Keith. He co-founded Ipecac Recordings with Greg Werckman in 1999, and has run the label since.
Patton was born and raised in Eureka, California, where he formed Mr. Bungle, with Trey Spruance and Trevor Dunn, in 1984. During the late '80s Mr Bungle recorded the cassette-only recordings, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny, Goddammit I Love America, Bowel of Chiley and OU818, featuring tracks that would later be included on their first Warner Brothers album.
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Morton Bartlett
Morton Bartlett (Boston, 1909-1992) was an American freelance photographer and graphic designer who, from 1936 to 1963, devoted much of his spare time to creating and photographing a series of intricately-carved life-like plaster dolls. He never formally exhibited his work, though a small circle of friends and acquaintances was aware of its existence. Only upon his death in 1992, when the contents of his estate were sold off, did his artistic creations become more widely known to the general public.
Morton Bartlett was born on 20 January, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois and orphaned at the age of 8. He was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Warren Goddard Bartlett, a wealthy couple from Cohasset, Massachusetts. Morton was enrolled at Boston's Phillips Exeter Academy and later spent two years, 1928 to 1930, studying at Harvard University. After dropping out, possibly due to financial hardships brought on by the Great Depression, Bartlett struggled to earn a living. He passed through a succession of jobs, ranging from crafts magazine editor and gas station attendant to making gift cards and running a printing business. Following service in a US Army engineering unit during WWII, Bartlett took up freelance graphic design and photography, designing catalogs for M. Scharf and Co., a Boston-based toy distributor. He never married, though he may have once been engaged to a woman living across the street from him in Cohasset, Mass. where the two ran a business together during the late 1940s.
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Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer, born in New York City.
A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Feldman's works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating; pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused; a generally quiet and slowly evolving music; recurring asymmetric patterns. His later works, after 1977, also begin to explore extremes of duration.
Feldman was born in Brooklyn, New York City into a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants from Kiev. His father was a manufacturer of children's coats. As a child he studied piano with Vera Maurina Press, who, according to the composer himself, instilled in him a "vibrant musicality rather than musicianship." Feldman's first composition teachers were Wallingford Riegger, one of the first American followers of Arnold Schoenberg, and Stefan Wolpe, a German-born Jewish composer who studied under Franz Schreker and Anton Webern. Feldman and Wolpe spent most of their time simply talking about music and art.
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Naftule Brandwein
Naftule Brandwein, or Naftuli Brandwine, (1884–1963) was a Jewish clarinetist and influential klezmer musician.
Brandwein was born in Przemyslany, Poland-Galicia (now Ukraine), into a family of klezmer musicians, part of the Stretiner Hasidic dynasty founded by Rabbi Yehuda Hirsch Brandwein of Stratin. His father Peysekhe played violin and was an improvising wedding poet (badkhn); of his thirteen sons, Moyshe played violin, French horn, and valve trombone, Mendel played piano, Leyzer played drums, and Azriel played cornet; Azriel became Naftule's first music teacher, and had a lasting impact on his playing.
In 1908 Brandwein emigrated at the age of nineteen to the United States where he quickly became a star of the 78 rpm record era, proclaiming himself the "King of Jewish Music". Thus, he was considered to be among the first wave of American klezmer artists, those trained in the Old World, as opposed to the second generation who learned their skills in America. Between 1922 and 1927, he cut twenty-four records, first as a member of Abe Schwartz's orchestra, and then as a solo artist after 1923.
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Napalm Death
Napalm Death are an extreme metal band formed in Birmingham, England in 1981. While none of its original members remain in the group, the lineup of vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway, bassist Shane Embury, guitarist Mitch Harris and drummer Danny Herrera has remained consistent for most of the band's career.
Napalm Death are credited with defining the grindcore genre by incorporating elements of hardcore punk and death metal, short songs, fast tempos, deep guttural vocals and sociopolitical lyrics. The band's debut album Scum, released in 1987 by Earache Records, proved substantially influential throughout the global metal community.
Napalm Death have released fifteen studio albums and are listed by Nielsen SoundScan as the seventh best-selling death metal band in the United States.
Napalm Death were formed in the village of Meriden near Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, in May 1981 by Nic Bullen and Miles Ratledge while the duo were still in their early teenage years. The duo had been playing in amateur bands since 1980 as an extension of their fanzine writing, and went through a number of names (including "Civil Defence," "The Mess," "Evasion" and "Undead Hatred") before choosing Napalm Death in mid 1981.
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Oliver Lake
Oliver Lake (b. Marianna, Arkansas, September 14, 1942) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet. He is known mainly on alto saxophone but also performs on soprano saxophone and flute.
During the 1960s Lake worked with the Black Artists Group.
In 1977 Lake co-founded the World Saxophone Quartet, with David Murray, Julius Hemphill and Hamiet Bluiett.
Lake is a resident of Montclair, New Jersey. His son is jazz drummer Gene Lake (b. 12 January 1966).
With World Saxophone Quartet
With Anthony Braxton
With Michael Gregory Jackson
With James Blood Ulmer
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Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen (French pronunciation: [ɔlivje mɛsjɑ̃]; December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex (he was interested in rhythms from ancient Greek and from Hindu sources); harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations. Many of his compositions depict what he termed "the marvellous aspects of the faith", and drew on his deeply held Roman Catholicism.
He travelled widely and wrote works inspired by diverse influences such as Japanese music, the landscape of Bryce Canyon in Utah and the life of St. Francis of Assisi. He said he perceived colours when he heard certain musical chords, particularly those built from his modes (a phenomenon known as synaesthesia); combinations of these colours, he said, were important in his compositional process. For a short period Messiaen experimented with the parametrisation associated with "total serialism", in which field he is often cited as an innovator. His style absorbed many exotic musical influences such as Indonesian gamelan (tuned percussion often features prominently in his orchestral works). He was one of the first composers to use an electronic keyboard—in this case, the ondes Martenot—in an orchestral work.
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Oren Rudavsky
Oren Rudavsky (born c. 1957) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker specializing in work on religion outside the mainstream. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1979.
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Orlande de Lassus
Orlande de Lassus (also Orlandus Lassus, Orlando di Lasso, Roland de Lassus, or Roland Delattre) (1532 (possibly 1530) – 14 June 1594) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He is today considered to be the chief representative of the mature polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish school, and one of the three most famous and influential musicians in Europe at the end of the 16th century (the other two being Palestrina and Victoria).
Lassus was born in Mons in the County of Hainaut (modern day Belgium). Information about his early years is scanty, although some uncorroborated stories have survived, the most famous of which is that he was kidnapped three times because of the singular beauty of his singing voice. At the age of twelve, he left the Low Countries with Ferrante Gonzaga and went to Mantua, Sicily, and later Milan (from 1547 to 1549). While in Milan, he made the acquaintance of the madrigalist Spirito l'Hoste da Reggio, a formative influence on his early musical style.
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Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman (born March 19, 1930) is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s.
Coleman's timbre is easily recognized: his keening, crying sound draws heavily on blues music. His album Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.
Coleman was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, where he began performing R&B and bebop initially on tenor saxophone. Seeking a way to work his way out of his home town, he took a job in 1949 with a Silas Green from New Orleans traveling show and then with touring rhythm and blues shows. After a show in Baton Rouge, he was assaulted and his saxophone was destroyed.
He switched to alto, which has remained his primary instrument, first playing it in New Orleans after the Baton Rouge incident. He then joined the band of Pee Wee Crayton and travelled with them to Los Angeles. He worked at various jobs, including as an elevator operator, while still pursuing his musical career.
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Paul Celan
Paul Celan (23 November 1920, Cernăuţi, Bukovina, Kingdom of Romania, current Chernivtsi, Ukraine – c. 20 April 1970, Paris) was a poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel into a Jewish family in Romania, and changed his name to "Paul Celan" (where Celan in Romanian would be pronounced Chelan, and was derived from Ancel, pronounced Antshel), becoming one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era.
Celan was born in 1920 into a German-speaking Jewish family in Cernăuţi, Northern Bukovina, a region then part of Romania and earlier part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, among others (now part of Ukraine). His father, Leo Antschel, was a Zionist who advocated his son's education in Hebrew at Safah Ivriah, an institution previously convinced of the wisdom of assimilation into Austrian culture, and one which favourably received Chaim Weizmann of the World Zionist Organization in 1927.
His mother, Fritzi, was an avid reader of German literature who insisted German be the language of the house. After his Bar Mitzvah in 1933, Celan abandoned Zionism (at least to some extent) and finished his formal Hebrew education, instead becoming active in Jewish Socialist organizations and fostering support for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. His earliest known poem, titled Mother's Day 1938 was an earnest, if sentimental, profession of love. In 1934, fourteen-year old Paul wrote a letter to his aunt Minna in Palestine, in which there is the eloquent phrase: "With regard to anti-Semitism in our school, I could write you a 300-page book."
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Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine (French pronunciation: [vɛʁˈlɛn]; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.
Born in Metz, he was educated at the Lycée impérial Bonaparte (now the Lycée Condorcet) in Paris and then took up a post in the civil service. He began writing poetry at an early age, and was initially influenced by the Parnassien movement and its leader, Leconte de Lisle. Verlaine's first published poem was published in 1863 in La Revue du progrès, a publication founded by poet Louis-Xavier de Ricard. Verlaine was a frequenter of the salon of the Marquise de Ricard (Louis-Xavier de Ricard's mother) at 10 Boulevard des Batignolles and other social venues, where he rubbed shoulders with prominent artistic figures of the day: Anatole France; Emmanuel Chabrier; inventor-poet and humorist Charles Cros; the cynical anti-bourgeois idealist Villiers de l'Isle-Adam; Theodore de Banville; François Coppée; Jose-Maria de Heredia; Leconte de Lisle; Catulle Mendes, and others. Verlaine's first published collection, Poèmes saturniens (1866), though adversely commented upon by Sainte-Beuve, established him as a poet of promise and originality.
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Peter Garland
Peter Garland (born January 25, 1952 in Portland, Maine) is a composer best known for publishing Soundings Press, one of the few sources of new music scores and articles while in print. A student of James Tenney and Harold Budd, much of Garland's work could be considered post-minimal although many of his postminimal works such as "The Days Run Away" (1971) were written in the early 1970s at the same time as the first minimalist works. He is also an expert on American Indian music. He is the author of Gone Walkabout: Essays 1991-.\
Peter Garland started his Soundings Press series in 1971 after attending a publishing workshop with Dick Higgins at CalArts.
He lives in Bath, Maine.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is particularly recognized as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.
In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song "The Eyes of Love" from the Universal Pictures film Banning. That same year, he became the first African American to be nominated twice within the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score for his work on the music of the 1967 film In Cold Blood. In 1971, Jones would receive the honor of becoming the first African American to be named musical director/conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. He was the first African American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African American, each of them having seven nominations. At the 2008 BET Awards, Quincy Jones was presented with the Humanitarian Award. He was played by Larenz Tate in the 2004 biopic about Ray Charles, Ray.
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Raul Ruiz
Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino (25 July 1941 – 19 August 2011) was an award-winning experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed over 100 films.
The son of a ship's captain and a schoolteacher in southern Chile, Raúl Ruiz abandoned his university studies in theology and law to write 100 plays with the support of a Rockefeller Foundation grant. He went on to learn his craft working in Chilean and Mexican television and studying at film school in Argentina (1964). Back in Chile, he made his feature debut Three Sad Tigers (1968), sharing the Golden Leopard at the 1969 Locarno Film Festival. He was something of an outsider among the politically oriented filmmakers of his generation such as Miguel Littín and Patricio Guzmán, his work being far more ironic, surrealistic and experimental. In 1973, shortly after the military coup d'état led by the dictator Augusto Pinochet, Ruiz and his wife (fellow director Valeria Sarmiento) fled Chile and settled in Paris, France.
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Ray Bandar
Ray Bandar (born 1922) is a scientist, researcher, teacher, naturalist, and artist living in the San Francisco, California area. He has collected more than 7,000 bone specimens, primarily skulls, from animals across the world. He is legally authorized to gather specimens under the permits of the California Academy of Sciences and his collection is eventually to be inherited by the Academy.
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Ray Drummond
Ray Drummond (born November 23, 1946 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is a jazz bassist and teacher. He also has an MBA from Stanford University, hence his linkage to the Stanford Jazz Workshop. He can be heard on hundreds of albums and co-leads The Drummonds with Renee Rosnes and (not related) Billy Drummond.
Drummond has been a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey since 1980 with his wife, Susan, and his daughter, Maya.
With Tom Harrell
With Toshiko Akiyoshi
With Freddie Hubbard
With Bobby Hutcherson
With David Murray
With Horace Silver
With Bob Thiele Collective
With Michael White
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Red Garland
William "Red" Garland (May 13, 1923 – April 23, 1984) was an American hard bop jazz pianist whose block chord style, in part originated by Milt Buckner, influenced many forthcoming pianists in the jazz idiom.
William "Red" Garland was born in Dallas, Texas in 1923. Though he came from a non-musical family, Garland showed an early interest in music. He began his musical studies on the clarinet and alto saxophone but in 1940 switched to the piano. Garland spent copious amounts of time practicing and rapidly developed into a proficient player. A short early career as a welterweight boxer did not seem to hurt his playing hands. He fought a young Sugar Ray Robinson before making the switch to a full-time musician.
Garland's trademark block chord technique, a commonly borrowed maneuver in jazz piano today, was unique and differed from the methods of earlier block chord pioneers such as George Shearing and Milt Buckner. Garland's block chords were constructed of three notes in the right hand and four notes in the left hand, with the right hand one octave above the left. Garland's left hand played four note chords that simultaneously beat out the same exact rhythm as the right hand melody played. But, unlike George Shearing's block chord method, Garland's left hand chords did not change positions or inversions until the next chord change occurred. It's also worth noting that Garland's four note left hand chord voicings occasionally left out the roots of the chords, which later became a chord style associated with pianist Bill Evans. Garland's block chord method had a brighter quality, slightly more dissonance, and a fullness in the upper register compared to the mellower Shearing block chord sound. Garland's solo lines also had a glassy, shimmering tone that matched the quality of his chords.[citation needed]
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Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman (born in New York on 10 June 1937) is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
Richard Foreman graduated from Brown University (B.A. 1959), and received an MFA in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama in 1962. As an undergraduate, he was instrumental in the formation of Production Workshop, Brown University's student theatre group, while taking part in other student theatre, including set-designing Brownbrokers' 1958 production of Down to Earth. In 1993, Brown presented him with an honorary doctorate. In 1968 he founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, which began as an art-oriented project in the New York district of Soho, and later moved to a semi-permanent "home" at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. Since 1992, the non-profit organization has been in residence at the theater at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery.
Foreman's dramatic works are driven by the notion of a constant reawakening of the audience; he is one of the major artists creating substantial works in the avant garde performance movement, now largely referred to as post-dramatic theater. Instead of focusing on conflict to shape his theatrical structure, Foreman's work draws on design, text and the live performance of actors equally, to create a different focus and relationship between the stage and audience. He describes his works as "total theater". The goal of his performances is a "disorientation massage", in contrast to Aristotle's goal of catharsis.
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Ry Cooder
Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American guitarist, singer and composer. He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and, more recently, his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.
His solo work has been eclectic, encompassing folk, blues, Tex-Mex, soul, gospel, rock, and much else. He has collaborated with many musicians, including Larry Blackmon, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Randy Newman, Earl Hines, Little Feat, Captain Beefheart, The Chieftains, John Lee Hooker, Pops and Mavis Staples, Flaco Jiménez, Ibrahim Ferrer, Freddy Fender, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Ali Farka Touré. He formed the band Little Village with Nick Lowe, John Hiatt, and Jim Keltner.
Ry Cooder produced the Buena Vista Social Club album (1997), which became a worldwide hit. Wim Wenders directed the documentary film of the same name (1999), which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.
He was ranked eighth on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". A 2010 ranking by Gibson placed him at number 32.
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Sammy Cahn
Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area. He and his collaborators had a series of hit recordings with Frank Sinatra during the singer's tenure at Capitol Records, but also enjoyed hits with Dean Martin, Doris Day and many others. He played the piano and violin. He won the Academy Award four times for his songs, including the popular song "Three Coins in the Fountain".
Cahn was born as Samuel Cohen in the Lower East Side of New York City, the only son (he had four sisters) of Abraham and Elka Reiss Cohen, who were Jewish immigrants from Galicia, Austria. His sisters, Sadye, Pearl, Florence, and Evelyn, all studied the piano. His mother did not approve of Sammy studying it though, for she thought the piano was a woman's instrument, so he took violin lessons. After three lessons and following his bar mitzvah, he joined a small dixieland band called Pals of Harmony, that would tour the Catskill Mountains in the summer and also did private parties. This new dream of Cahn's destroyed any hopes his parents had for him to be a professional man.
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Sean Lennon
Sean Taro Ono Lennon (Japanese name Tarō Ono (小野 太郎, Ono Tarō?); born October 9, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist and actor of English, Japanese and Irish descent. He is the only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono and the younger half-brother of Julian Lennon. His godfather is Sir Elton John.
Sean Lennon was born in New York City on October 9, 1975, his father's 35th birthday. Julian Lennon is his half-brother and Kyoko Chan Cox is his half-sister. After Sean's birth, John became a house husband, doting on his young son until his murder in 1980. Sean attended kindergarten in Tokyo, and was also educated at the exclusive private boarding school Institut Le Rosey in Rolle, Switzerland, and earlier at New York's private Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Dalton School. He later attended Columbia University, though for only three semesters before dropping out to focus on his music career.
His parents did not force him into the life of a musician: they intentionally hid their musical lives from their son. His debut into the music world came at the age of five, reciting a story on his mother's 1981 album Season of Glass. From childhood into his teen years, Sean continued to collaborate with his mother, contributing vocals and receiving production credit on her solo albums It's Alright (I See Rainbows), Starpeace and Onobox. At 16 Sean co-wrote the song "All I Ever Wanted" with Lenny Kravitz for his 1991 album Mama Said. By 1995 Sean had formed the band IMA (with Sam Koppelman and Timo Ellis) to play alongside his mother on her album Rising. Sean also made appearances in film, featured in the cast of Michael Jackson's 1988 Moonwalker and portraying a teenager experiencing visions of various M. C. Escher paintings in Sony's 1990 promotional short-film Infinite Escher.
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Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish: שלום־עליכם, Russian and Ukrainian: Шолом-Алейхем) (March 2, 1859 – May 13, 1916) was the pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on his stories about Tevye the Milkman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe.
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (Salomon Nochem Vevik) was born in 1859 into a Hasidic family in Pereyaslav and grew up in the nearby shtetl (small town with a large Jewish population) of Voronko, in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in the Kiev Oblast of central Ukraine). His father, Menachem-Nukhem Rabinovich, was a rich merchant at that time. However, a failed business affair plunged the family into poverty and Solomon subsequently grew up in reduced circumstances. When he was 13 years old, the family moved back to Pereiaslav, where his mother, Chaye-Esther, died in a cholera epidemic.
His first venture into writing was an alphabetic glossary of the epithets used by his stepmother. At the age of fifteen, inspired by Robinson Crusoe, he composed a Jewish version of the novel. He adopted the pseudonym Sholem Aleichem, a Yiddish variant of the Hebrew expression shalom aleichem, meaning "peace be with you" or "hello".
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Sonny Clark
Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark (July 21, 1931 – January 13, 1963) was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.
Clark was born and raised in Herminie, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town southeast of Pittsburgh. At age 12, he moved to Pittsburgh. When visiting an aunt in California at age 20, Clark decided to stay and began working with saxophonist Wardell Gray. Clark went to San Francisco with Oscar Pettiford and after a couple months, was working with clarinetist Buddy DeFranco in 1953. Clark toured the U.S. and Europe with DeFranco until January 1956, when he joined The Lighthouse All-Stars, led by bassist Howard Rumsey.
Wishing to return to the east coast, Clark served as accompanist for singer Dinah Washington in February 1957 in order to relocate to New York City. In New York, Clark was often requested as a sideman by many musicians, partly because of his rhythmic comping. He frequently recorded for Blue Note Records, playing as a sideman with many hard bop players, including Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Art Farmer, Curtis Fuller, Grant Green, Philly Joe Jones, Clifford Jordan, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Art Taylor, and Wilbur Ware. He also recorded sessions with Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Billie Holiday, Stanley Turrentine, and Lee Morgan.
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Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert ( /koʊlˈbɛər/ or /ˈkoʊlbərt/; born May 13, 1964) is an American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits.
Colbert originally studied to be an actor, but became interested in improvisational theatre when he met famed Second City director Del Close while attending Northwestern University. He first performed professionally as an understudy for Steve Carell at Second City Chicago; among his troupe mates were comedians Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris, with whom he developed the critically acclaimed sketch comedy series Exit 57.
Colbert also wrote and performed on the short-lived Dana Carvey Show before collaborating with Sedaris and Dinello again on the cult television series Strangers with Candy. He gained considerable attention for his role on the latter as closeted gay history teacher Chuck Noblet. It was his work as a correspondent on Comedy Central's news-parody series The Daily Show, however, that first introduced him to a wide audience.
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Stephen Drury
Stephen Drury (born April 13, 1955) is an American pianist, conductor and electronic musician.
Drury has performed and recorded a range of compositions by classical and contemporary composers including Igor Stravinsky, Charles Ives, John Cage, Frederic Rzewski, and John Zorn. He teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music.
His CD of Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated! is considered by critics to be the definitive recording of that work. He has performed with Frederic Rzewski at Carnegie Hall as recently as May 1, 2008.
Mr. Drury was a student of Margaret Ott, Patricia Zander, and Claudio Arrau.
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Steve Coleman
Steve Coleman, born (1956-09-20) September 20, 1956 (age 55), is an African American saxophone player, spontaneous composer, composer and band leader. His music and concepts have been a heavy influence on contemporary jazz.
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Sylvie Courvoisier
Sylvie Courvoisier (born November 30, 1968 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is a Swiss composer and pianist.
Courvoisier was born and raised in Switzerland. In 1998, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, where she currently resides. She co-leads the Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman Quartet and leads her own quintet, Lonelyville, and the Trio Abaton. She is a member of Mephista, an improvising trio with Ikue Mori and Susie Ibarra; Herb Robertson Quintet, with Tim Berne, Tom Rainey and Mark Dresser; Vincent Courtois Trio, along with Ellery Eskelin; and John Zorn’s Cobra. Since 1997, she also performs regularly in duo with violinist Mark Feldman (her husband).
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered one of the giants of American music. Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser" and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second most recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed over 1,000 songs while Monk wrote about 70.
His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, and are consistent with Monk's unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of silences and hesitations. This was not a style universally appreciated; poet and jazz critic Philip Larkin dismissed Monk as 'the elephant on the keyboard'.
Monk's manner was idiosyncratic. Visually, he was renowned for his distinctive style in suits, hats and sunglasses. He was also noted for the fact that at times, while the other musicians in the band continued playing, he would stop, stand up from the keyboard and dance for a few moments before returning to the piano.
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Tim Berne
Tim Berne (born 1954) is an American jazz saxophone player and composer.
Described by critic Thom Jurek as commanding "considerable power as a composer and ... frighteningly deft ability as a soloist," Berne has composed and performed prolifically since the 1980s. His mainstream success has been limited—Berne recorded two albums for Columbia Records -- but Berne has released a significant body of work over the decades spanning dozens of critically acclaimed recordings.
Though Berne was a music fan, he had no interest in playing a musical instrument until he was in college, when he purchased an alto saxophone. He was more interested in rhythm and blues music--Stax records releases and Aretha Franklin, especially—until he heard Julius Hemphill's 1972 recording Dogon A.D.
Hemphill was known for his integration of soul music and funk with free jazz. Berne moved to New York City in 1974. There Berne took lessons from Hemphill, and later recorded with him.
In 1979, Berne founded Empire Records to release his own recordings. He recorded Fulton Street Maul and Sanctified Dreams for Columbia Records, which generated some discussion and controversy, due in part to the fact that Berne's music had little in common with the neo-tradionalist hard bop performers prominent in the mid-1980s. Some regarded Berne's music as uncommercial. In the late 1990s Berne founded Screwgun Records, which has released his own recordings, as well as others' music.
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Tim Sparks
Tim Sparks (born October 31, 1954) is an American acoustic guitar player, singer, arranger and composer.
Raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he was given his first guitar when a bout of encephalitis kept him out of school for a year. The music he heard around him was traditional country blues, and the gospel his grandmother played on piano in a small church in the Blue Ridge Mountains, so that's what he taught himself to play.
He was nominated for a scholarship at the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts. There he studied the classics with Andrés Segovia protegee Jesus Silva. While recording three albums with the seminal vocal jazz ensemble Rio Nido, Sparks also became proficient in jazz styles from Brazilian to Bebop, which brought him several regional music awards including Best Acoustic Guitarist, Best Latin Jazz guitarist, and Best Jazz Guitarist in the Minnesota Music Awards. In 1993 he won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas, playing his adaptation of The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky.
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Trevor Dunn
Trevor Roy Dunn (born January 30, 1968) is an American composer, bass guitarist and double bassist.
Dunn came to prominence in the 1990s with the experimental band Mr. Bungle. He has since worked in an array of musical styles, notably with singer and Mr. Bungle co-founder Mike Patton; with saxophonist/composer John Zorn; and with the group Secret Chiefs 3. He is also a member of the band Tomahawk, replacing founding member Kevin Rutmanis.
After four years of studying the clarinet, Dunn began playing electric bass at the age of 13. His earliest musical influences included the Beach Boys, Blondie, Cheap Trick, and Kiss.
Dunn studied double bass and music in college.
In 1986, Dunn formed Mr. Bungle with vocalist Mike Patton and guitarist Trey Spruance. Mr. Bungle's early compositions mixed thrash metal, hard rock, death metal, ska and funk with an air of adolescent humor and vulgarity. With a background in metal, Dunn branched out his musical abilities playing jazz around San Francisco while immersing himself in different music.
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Trey Spruance
Preston Lea Spruance III or "Trey Spruance" (born August 14, 1969) is an American composer, producer, and musician, perhaps best known as the leader of the multi-genre outfit Secret Chiefs 3 and for his work as guitarist and keyboardist with Mr. Bungle. Originally a guitarist and trumpeter, Spruance later began playing vintage electronic organs, saz, santur, electric sitar, tar, pipa, and various other string and percussion instruments.
Spruance was a founding member of Mr. Bungle, along with Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn. Since Mr. Bungle's dissolution in 2000, Spruance has focused more on his Secret Chiefs 3 projects, expanding the role of the group's seven sub-groups and releasing Book of Horizons, the first album of a planned trilogy. He has performed with John Zorn and Eyvind Kang. He also contributed some guitar and tubular bells to the ASVA recordings Futurists Against the Ocean and What You Don't Know Is Frontier with whom he toured the US and Europe. He, notably, also recorded with Patton in the group Faith No More on their 1995 album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime. He arranged the strings and one-woman choir for The Tuna Helpers' second album, I'll Have What She's Having.
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Uri Caine
Uri Caine (born June 8, 1956 in Philadelphia) is an American classical and jazz pianist and composer.
The son of Burton Caine, a professor at Temple Law School, Caine began playing piano at seven and studied with French jazz pianist Bernard Peiffer at 12. He later studied at the University of Pennsylvania where he came under the tutelage of George Crumb. He also gained a greater familiarity with classical music in this period and worked at clubs in Philadelphia.
He played professionally after 1981, and by 1985 had his recording debut with the Rochester-Gerald Veasley band. In the 1980s, he moved to New York City, where he lives now. He also appeared on a klezmer album with Mickey Katz and played with modern jazz musicians Don Byron and Dave Douglas.
Caine, who has recorded 16 albums, is celebrated for his eclectic and inventive interpretations of the classical repertoire. His 1997 jazz tribute to Gustav Mahler received an award from the German Mahler Society, while outraging some jury members. Caine has also reworked Bach's Goldberg Variations, Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, as well as Wagner, Schumann and Mozart.
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Wadada Leo Smith
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (born 18 December 1941) is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation.
Smith was born in Leland, Mississippi. He started out playing drums, mellophone, and French horn before he settled on the trumpet. He played in various R&B groups and by 1967 became a member of the AACM and co-founded the Creative Construction Company, a trio with Leroy Jenkins and Anthony Braxton. In 1971, Smith formed his own label, Kabell. He also formed another band, the New Dalta Ahkri, with members including Henry Threadgill, Anthony Davis and Oliver Lake.
In the 1970s, Smith studied ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. He played again with Anthony Braxton as well as recording with Derek Bailey's Company. In the mid-1980s, Smith became Rastafarian and began using the name Wadada. In 1993, he began teaching at Cal Arts, a position he currently holds. In addition to trumpet and flugelhorn, Smith plays several world music instruments, including the koto, kalimba, and atenteben (Ghanaian bamboo flute). He has also taught courses in instrument making. His compositions often use a graphic notation system he calls "Ankhrasmation," which he developed in 1970.
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Wayne Horvitz
Wayne Horvitz (born 1955) is an American composer, keyboardist and record producer.
Horvitz, a "defiant cross-breeder of genres", has led the groups The President, Pigpen, Zony Mash, and the Four Plus One Ensemble. He has recorded or performed with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Elliott Sharp, Danny Barnes, Tucker Martine, Butch Morris, Fred Frith, Julian Priester, Philip Wilson, Michael Shrieve, Carla Bley, Timothy Young, Bobby Previte, Skerik, Douglas September and others. He is perhaps most famous for being the keyboardist of the band Naked City. He has produced records for the World Saxophone Quartet, Human Feel, Marty Ehrlich, Fontella Bass, The Living Daylights, Bill Frisell or Eddie Palmieri.
As a composer, Horvitz has been commissioned by The Kitchen, The Kronos Quartet, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New World Records, The Seattle Chamber Players and Earshot Jazz. He has received commissioning grants from Meet the Composer, The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Arts Council, The Mary Flagler Carey Trust, The Seattle Arts Commission, The Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and The Fund for U.S. Artists. In 2002 he was awarded a Rockefeller MAP grant for the creation of a new piece, Joe Hill, for chamber orchestra and voice, which premiered in October 2004 in Seattle. His 2003 composition, Whispers, Hymns and a Murmur for String Quartet and soloist, funded in part by a Seattle City Artist grant, premiered in March 2004. This composition and his earlier string quartet, Mountain Language are released on the Tzadik label. His newest string quartet composition, These Hills of Glory, was commissioned with support from 4Culture and the Mayors Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs. His recent collaboration with Tucker Martine, Mylab, was on the top 10 CD list for 2004 in jazz in both the New Yorker and Amazon.com. In February 2005 he received the Golden Ear award from Earshot Jazz for "Concert of the Year."
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Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards. Shorter's output has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise and various commendations, including multiple Grammy Awards.
Shorter first came to wide prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he went on to join Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, and from there he co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report. He has recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader.
Shorter was born in Newark, New Jersey, and attended Newark Arts High School from which he graduated in 1952. He loved music, being encouraged by his father to take up the saxophone as a teenager (his brother Alan became a trumpeter). After graduating from New York University in 1956, Shorter spent two years in the U.S. Army, during which time he played briefly with Horace Silver. After his discharge from the army, he played with Maynard Ferguson. It was in his youth that Shorter was given the nickname '"Mr. Gone", which would later become an album title for Weather Report.
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Weegee
Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography. Weegee worked in the Lower East Side of New York City as a press photographer during the 1930s and '40s, and he developed his signature style by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity. Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death. Weegee published photographic books and also worked in cinema, initially making his own short films and later collaborating with film directors such as Jack Donohue and Stanley Kubrick.
Weegee was born Ascher (Usher) Fellig in Złoczów (now Zolochiv, Ukraine), near Lemberg, Austrian Galicia. His name was changed to Arthur when he emigrated with his family to live in New York in 1909. There he took numerous odd jobs, including working as an itinerant photographer and as an assistant to a commercial photographer. In 1924 he was hired as a dark-room technician by Acme Newspictures (later United Press International Photos). He left, however, in 1935 to become a freelance photographer. He worked at night and competed with the police to be first at the scene of a crime, selling his photographs to tabloids and photographic agencies. His photographs, centered around Manhattan police headquarters, were soon published by the Herald Tribune, World-Telegram, Daily News, New York Post, New York Journal American, Sun, and others.
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William Schuman
William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910 – February 15, 1992) was an American composer and music administrator.
Born in Manhattan in New York City to Samuel and Rachel Schuman, Schuman was named after the twenty-seventh U.S. president, William Howard Taft, although his family preferred to call him Bill. Schuman played the violin and banjo as a child, but his overwhelming passion was baseball. While still in high school, he formed a dance band, "Billy Schuman and his Alamo Society Orchestra", that played local weddings and bar mitzvahs in which Schuman played string bass.
In 1928 he entered New York University's School of Commerce to pursue a business degree, at the same time working for an advertising agency. He also wrote popular songs with E. B. Marks, Jr., a friend he had met long before at summer camp. About then Schuman met lyricist Frank Loesser and wrote some forty songs with him. Loesser's first published song, "In Love with a Memory of You", credits the music to William H. Schuman.
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William Winant
William Winant (born 1953) is an American percussionist.
In addition to his work in contemporary classical music -- notably performing Lou Harrison's compositions—Winant has worked in a variety of genres, including noise rock, free improvisation and jazz. Notable collaborators include Glenn Spearman, Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth, Mr. Bungle (with whom he toured in support of their albums Disco Volante and California), Secret Chiefs 3, Mondo Cane and Oingo Boingo. He has also frequently collaborated with John Zorn.
He currently is a faculty member at Mills College in Oakland, California. He also gives percussion lessons and teaches the percussion ensemble at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and a jazz recording of his was the first of its kind to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Marsalis is the son of jazz musician Ellis Marsalis, Jr. (pianist), grandson of Ellis Marsalis, Sr., and brother of Branford (saxophonist), Delfeayo (trombonist), Mboya, and Jason (drummer).
Wynton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1961, the second of six sons of Dolores (née Ferdinand) and Ellis Louis Marsalis, Jr., a pianist and music professor. At an early age, he exhibited an aptitude for music. At age eight, Wynton performed traditional New Orleans music in the Fairview Baptist Church band led by banjoist Danny Barker, and at 14, he performed with the New Orleans Philharmonic. During high school, Wynton performed with the New Orleans Symphony Brass Quintet, New Orleans Community Concert Band, New Orleans Youth Orchestra, New Orleans Symphony, various jazz bands and with a local funk band, the Creators.
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Yamantaka Eye
Yamataka Eye (山塚アイ, Yamataka Ai?), real name Tetsurō Yamatsuka (山塚徹郎, Yamatsuka Tetsurō?), born 13 February 1964) is a Japanese vocalist and visual artist, best known as a member of Boredoms. He has changed his name three times, from Yamatsuka Eye, to Yamantaka Eye, to Yamataka Eye, and sometimes calls himself eYe or EYヨ. He also DJs under the name DJ 光光光 or "DJ pica pica pica" ("pica" means "bright" or "shiny"), and has used numerous other pseudonyms.
Born in Kobe, Eye is a founder of the influential rock music band, Boredoms, whose first major label release came out in the early '90s. They were signed to Warner Bros. (Chocolate Synthesizer era) by David Katznelson, then A&R VP of Warner Bros. The closest thing Boredoms have to a frontman, Eye offers a variety of vocal techniques: gurgles, screams, grunts and occasionally, relatively conventional singing. In the later days of Boredoms and in today's V∞redoms he plays electronics and open reel tapes.
Yamantaka Eye is also a member of the bands Hanatarash, UFO or Die, Puzzle Punks, Noise Ramones and Destroy 2. He is notorious for his vast, confusing discography and countless guest appearances. In 1993, he recorded an EP with Sonic Youth called TV Shit for Thurston Moore's label, Ecstatic Peace. He also collaborated with Yamamoto Seiichi & Yamazaki Maso in the project "(Triple) Yama's" which was titled for their shared namesake. He released two albums, Live! and Live!!, with Japanese turntablist/improviser Yoshihide Otomo, under the moniker "MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse".
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Zeena Parkins
Zeena Parkins is a harpist active in rock music, free improvisation and jazz. Parkins plays standard harps, as well as several custom-made one-of-a kind electric harps; she also plays piano and accordion. She is currently a guest faculty member for composition courses at Mills College.
Born in 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, she studied at Bard College and moved to New York City in 1984.
Her work ranges from solo performance to large ensembles. Besides standard and electric harps, her work also incorporates Foley, field recordings, analog synthesizers, samplers, oscillators and homemade instruments.
She has done several solo recordings and has also recorded or performed with Björk, John Zorn (including in Cobra performances), Elliott Sharp, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Tin Hat Trio, Jim O'Rourke, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Lee Ranaldo, Nels Cline, Pauline Oliveros, Anthony Braxton, Matmos, Yoko Ono, Christian Marclay, Courtney Love's band Hole and others.
She has been a member of a number of experimental rock bands, including No Safety, News from Babel, Skeleton Crew and Fred Frith's review band, Keep the Dog. In March 2008 she joined Frith's Cosa Brava quintet comprising Frith, Parkins, Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi, and The Norman Conquest.
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Zorn, John Filmography
- Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011)
- De Nobelprijswinnaar (2010)
- MindFlux (2010)
- El general (2009)
- Belle de nature (2009)
- The Last Supper (2009)
- Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags (2009)
- Notes on Marie Menken (2006)
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2006)
- The Treatment (2006)
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2006)
- Protocols of Zion (2005)
- Workingman's Death (2005)
- Masada: Live at Tonic 1999 (2004)
- Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust (2004)
- Invitation to a Suicide (2004)
- Masada: Live at Tonic 1999 (2004)
- Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America (2003)
- A pesar de Treblinka (2002)
- A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn (2002)
- Shirts & Skins (2002)
- Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII (2002)
- Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2002)
- A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn (2002)
- Trembling Before G-d (2001)
- The Port of Last Resort (1998)
- Sabbath in Paradise (1998)
- Sabbath in Paradise (1998)
- The Black Glove (1997)
- Ekusutashi no namida: Chiin (1997)
- Latin Boys Go to Hell (1997)
- Mechanics of the Brain (1997)
- The Elegant Spanking (1995)
- Zigrail (1995)
- Die Kunst des Erinnerns - Simon Wiesenthal (1995)
- Credits Included: A Video in Red and Green (1995)
- Great Girl (1994)
- Hölderlin-Comics (1994)
- Hollywood Hotel (1994)
- The Revenge of the Dead Indians (1993)
- Maohgai (1993)
- Thieves Quartet (1993)
- The Golden Boat (1990)
- Distribution of Lead (1988)
- She Must Be Seeing Things (1987)
- Put More Blood Into the Music (1987)
- White and Lazy (1986)
- Rising Tones Cross (1985)
Zorn, John Filmography
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- Shalom, Sholem!
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- Goetia, Part V
- Goetia, Part VI
- Goetia, Part VII
- Goetia, Part VIII
- Gris-Gris
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- Arabesque
- Skull V
- Bolex Dancing
- Act 1, Scene 1: A Secluded Clearing in the Woods / Scene 2: A Single Bed in a Small Room / Scene 3: The Innermost Chapel of a Secret Temple
- Act 2, Scene 1: A Mediaeval Laboratory / Scene 2: In the Magick Circle
- Act 3, Scene 1: A Barren Plain at Midnight / Scene 2: An Unnamed Location
- Hellfire
- Ghosts of Thelema
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- 616
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- The Treatment
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- Rush Hour
- Bad Dreams
- Uncertainty
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- She Must Be Seeing Things: Main Title
- White and Lazy: End Titles
- Cynical Hysterie Hour: Yakisoba
- Cynical Hysterie Hour: Punk Rock Hero
- Cynical Hysterie Hour: Through the Night
- Cynical Hysterie Hour: Surfing Samba
- The Golden Boy: Fanfare/Theme
- Weiden and Kennedy Nike Spot: France
- Weiden and Kennedy Nike Spot: Sweden
- Looters (Tresspass): Arsenal (dance mix)
- Hollywood Hotel: Main Title
- Weiden and Kennedy Commerical Spot: Wheelchair Racers
- Rose Hobart: Pueblo
- Tears of Ecstasy: Lituus
- Mechanics of the Brain: Fireworks
- Anton, Mailman: End Titles
- Latin Boys Go to Hell: Deseo
- Port of Last Resort: Shanghai
- Trembling Before G-D: Trembling Before G-D
- In the Mirror of Maya Deren: Filming
- Secret Lives: Shabbos Noir
- Homecoming: Chippy Charm
- Homecoming: Vocal Phase
- Shaolin Ulysses: Shaolin Spirit
- Invitation to a Suicide: Main Title
- Hiding and Seeking: Sekhel (vocal version)
- Protocols of Zion: Protocols of Zion
- Workingman's Death: Indonesia
- Orphee
- Frammenti Del Sappho
- Walpurgisnacht: Movement 1
- Walpurgisnacht: Movement 2
- Walpurgisnacht: Movement 3
- The Viaduct
- Welcome West
- The Double AA
- The English Channel (New mix) / W Va Spec (Newly Done version)
- Lacrosse, Take 3
- Lacrosse, Take 4
- Lacrosse, Take 6
- Lacrosse, Take 1
- Lacrosse, Take 2
- Lacrosse, Take 5
- Part 1
- Part 2 (Cartoon Music)
- Aoyanian Michi
- Enoken
- Katsumi Shigeru
- Kondo Toshinori
- Togowa Jun
- Mori Ikue
- Mikhail Zoetrope: Act I
- Mikhail Zoetrope: Act II
- Mikhail Zoetrope: Act III
- Conquest of Mexico, Part 1: Warning Signs
- Conquest of Mexico, Part 2: Confession
- Conquest of Mexico, Part 3: Convulsions/Abdication
- Wind Ko/La
- Automata of Al-Jazari
- Variations on a Theme by Albert Ayler
- The Eternals
- Song of Innocence
- A Dream of Nine Nights
- Light Forms
- The Aeons
- Liber XV
- Dance of Albion
- Song of Experience
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John Zorn - Gevurah
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- Duration: 6:55
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
John Zorn's Bar Kokhba troops performing Gevurah Song available on album Circle Maker. Marc Ribot - guitar Cyro Baptista - percussion Mark Feldman - violin Erik Friedlander - cello Greg Cohen - bass Joey Baron - drums
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John Zorn's Bar Kokhba troops performing Gevurah Song available on album Circle Maker. Marc Ribot - guitar Cyro Baptista - percussion Mark Feldman - violin Erik Friedlander - cello Greg Cohen - bass Joey Baron - drums
John Zorn - Jazz in Marciac - Live 2010 (Full Show)
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- Duration: 53:55
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
This is some golden footage here... Pro-shot by Mezzo and the Jazz in Marciac Team. Some of the top musicians in the field. John Zorn - direction, saxophone Marc Ribot - guitar Jamie Saft - piano, orgue Trevor Dunn - bass Kenny Wollesen - vibraphone Joey Baron - drums Cyro Baptista - percussion www.brainphreak.net www.facebook.com
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This is some golden footage here... Pro-shot by Mezzo and the Jazz in Marciac Team. Some of the top musicians in the field. John Zorn - direction, saxophone Marc Ribot - guitar Jamie Saft - piano, orgue Trevor Dunn - bass Kenny Wollesen - vibraphone Joey Baron - drums Cyro Baptista - percussion www.brainphreak.net www.facebook.com
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John Zorn documentary part 1
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- Duration: 8:11
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
John Zorn, talking in his apartment about his file card composition Spillane, how TV and cartoon music inspired him and other stuff. Featuring appearances by Ted Epstein and Christian Marclay
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John Zorn, talking in his apartment about his file card composition Spillane, how TV and cartoon music inspired him and other stuff. Featuring appearances by Ted Epstein and Christian Marclay
- published: 21 Feb 2008
- views: 64550
- author: doublemain
Naked City - Naked City (Full Album John Zorn).wmv
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- Duration: 55:19
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
"Batman" "The Sicilian Clan" (Ennio Morricone) "Latin Quarter" "A Shot in the Dark" (Henry Mancini) "Reanimator" "Snagglepuss" "I Want to Live" (Johnny Mandel) "Lonely Woman" (Ornette Coleman) "Blood Duster" "Hammerhead" "Demon Sanctuary" "Obeah Man" "Ujaku" "Fuck the Facts" "Speedball...
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"Batman" "The Sicilian Clan" (Ennio Morricone) "Latin Quarter" "A Shot in the Dark" (Henry Mancini) "Reanimator" "Snagglepuss" "I Want to Live" (Johnny Mandel) "Lonely Woman" (Ornette Coleman) "Blood Duster" "Hammerhead" "Demon Sanctuary" "Obeah Man" "Ujaku" "Fuck the Facts" "Speedball...
- published: 09 May 2012
- views: 15714
- author: JazzSessions4Thee
John Zorn - Lilin
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- Duration: 7:03
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
John Zorn - Bar Kokhba & Acoustic Massada live in Marciac 2007
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Lilin
John Zorn - Bar Kokhba & Acoustic Massada live in Marciac 2007
- published: 15 Jan 2008
- views: 168185
- author: barbersadagio
John Zorn - Little Bittern
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- Duration: 6:30
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
from "O'o" (2009)
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John Zorn, David Sanborn, Marcus Miller - Snagglepuss - 1988, Live @ Night Music
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- Duration: 4:33
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Amazing combo band playing classic "Naked City" tune. This piece was cut from 'Night Music' ('Sunday Night') show, season 1, episode 7, which went on NBC channel in 1988. It is truly unique - musicians are having fun at most and playing just amazing. You can see here David Sanborn on second sax and Marcus Miller on bass - they both were working at NBC at those times. I suppose it is the only case they both were playing some avantgarde music. :) Sorry for japanese subtitles. Lineup: John Zorn, David Sanborn - as, Hiram Bullock - g, Marcus Miller - b, Philippe Saisse - k, Omar Hakim - d Also in episode 107 Marianne Faithfull, Aaron Neville, Rob Wasserman, John Sebastian and NRBQ band were performing along with Zorn. Wiki: en.wikipedia.org Disclaimer: All names, songs, signs, words and whatever is present in this video are owned by their respectful owners and not by me. I just want to share this piece of beautiful performance with people. Not a single cent were or ever would be gained with this piece of video. Peace.
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Amazing combo band playing classic "Naked City" tune. This piece was cut from 'Night Music' ('Sunday Night') show, season 1, episode 7, which went on NBC channel in 1988. It is truly unique - musicians are having fun at most and playing just amazing. You can see here David Sanborn on second sax and Marcus Miller on bass - they both were working at NBC at those times. I suppose it is the only case they both were playing some avantgarde music. :) Sorry for japanese subtitles. Lineup: John Zorn, David Sanborn - as, Hiram Bullock - g, Marcus Miller - b, Philippe Saisse - k, Omar Hakim - d Also in episode 107 Marianne Faithfull, Aaron Neville, Rob Wasserman, John Sebastian and NRBQ band were performing along with Zorn. Wiki: en.wikipedia.org Disclaimer: All names, songs, signs, words and whatever is present in this video are owned by their respectful owners and not by me. I just want to share this piece of beautiful performance with people. Not a single cent were or ever would be gained with this piece of video. Peace.
- published: 11 Dec 2011
- views: 8114
- author: Vladimir Luchansky
John Zorn & Naked City with Eye - NYC live
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- Duration: 13:22
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
naked city performing in new york with yamatsuka eye more than singing
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Naked_City_with_Eye_NYC_live
naked city performing in new york with yamatsuka eye more than singing
- published: 21 Sep 2010
- views: 33662
- author: Ugo Fellone
John Zorn - Mount Analogue
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- Duration: 32:27
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
The track lacks the last 6 minutes. sorry for that. Drawing inspiration from the life and work of the towering spiritual figure Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Mount Analogue is one of Zorn's greatest creations. Personnel: Cyro Baptista: Percussion, Prayer Bells, Vocals Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz: Bass, Oud, Gimbri, Vocals Tim Keiper: Calabash, Drums, Percussion, Orchestral Bells, Vocals Brian Marsella: Piano, Organ, Vocals Kenny Wollesen: Vibraphone, Chimes, Vocals
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Mount_Analogue
The track lacks the last 6 minutes. sorry for that. Drawing inspiration from the life and work of the towering spiritual figure Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Mount Analogue is one of Zorn's greatest creations. Personnel: Cyro Baptista: Percussion, Prayer Bells, Vocals Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz: Bass, Oud, Gimbri, Vocals Tim Keiper: Calabash, Drums, Percussion, Orchestral Bells, Vocals Brian Marsella: Piano, Organ, Vocals Kenny Wollesen: Vibraphone, Chimes, Vocals
- published: 09 Feb 2012
- views: 29310
- author: hermess89
John Zorn - Invitation to a suicide
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- Duration: 4:40
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
First song of Filmworks XIII : Invitation to a suicide
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First song of Filmworks XIII : Invitation to a suicide
- published: 01 Dec 2009
- views: 87123
- author: prettylikedrugs59
John Zorn - Acoustic Masada Live Full Concert
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- Duration: 52:34
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Vienne Jazz Festival 2006
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Acoustic_Masada_Live_Full_Concert
John Zorn - Spillane (Entire Album)
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- Duration: 52:49
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Spillane, 1987
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Spillane_Entire_Album
John Zorn - The Christmas Song (Ft Mike Patton)
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- Duration: 6:39
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
John Zorn - The Christmas Song (Ft Mike Patton) Album: A Dreamers Christmas Personnel: Marc Ribot, Jamie Saft, Kenny Wollesen, Trevor Dunn, Joey Baron, Cyro Baptista, Mike Patton & John Zorn
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_The_Christmas_Song_Ft_Mike_Patton
John Zorn - The Christmas Song (Ft Mike Patton) Album: A Dreamers Christmas Personnel: Marc Ribot, Jamie Saft, Kenny Wollesen, Trevor Dunn, Joey Baron, Cyro Baptista, Mike Patton & John Zorn
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 48093
- author: Theholyfilament
Henry Grimes / Christian McBride / Roy Campbell / John Zorn at a Benefit Concert for The Under_Line
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- Duration: 9:27
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Benefit Concert for The Under_Line - Dec 4 2012 [forthcoming Lower East Side performance space] Henry Grimes - bass Christian McBride - bass Roy Campbell - flugelhorn John Zorn - alto saxophone
http://wn.com/Henry_Grimes_Christian_McBride_Roy_Campbell_John_Zorn_at_a_Benefit_Concert_for_The_Under_Line
Benefit Concert for The Under_Line - Dec 4 2012 [forthcoming Lower East Side performance space] Henry Grimes - bass Christian McBride - bass Roy Campbell - flugelhorn John Zorn - alto saxophone
- published: 21 Dec 2012
- views: 509
- author: Don Mount
John Zorn - Khebar
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- Duration: 4:59
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
John Zorn's Bar Kokhba troops performing Khebar Song available on album Circle Maker. Marc Ribot - guitar Cyro Baptista - percussion Mark Feldman - violin Erik Friedlander - cello Greg Cohen - bass Joey Baron - drums
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Khebar
John Zorn's Bar Kokhba troops performing Khebar Song available on album Circle Maker. Marc Ribot - guitar Cyro Baptista - percussion Mark Feldman - violin Erik Friedlander - cello Greg Cohen - bass Joey Baron - drums
- published: 10 Oct 2006
- views: 244906
- author: poophat
JOHN ZORN - Illuminations
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- Duration: 11:39
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Artist: John Zorn Album: "Rimbaud" 2012 Genre: Jazz / Avant-Garde Label: Tzadik John Zorn - samples, electronics, alto sax, piano, organ, guitar, drums, foley effects Trevor Dunn - bass Brad Lubman - conductor Ikue Mori - laptop, electronics Kenny Wollesen - drums Mathieu Amalric - voice Steve Beck - piano Erik Carlson - violin Stephen Gosling - piano Chris Gross - cello Al Lipowski - vibraphone Rane Moore - clarinet Tara O'Connor - flute Elizabeth Weisser - viola Album available directly from: www.tzadik.com or www.amazon.com www.myspace.com www.facebook.com
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Artist: John Zorn Album: "Rimbaud" 2012 Genre: Jazz / Avant-Garde Label: Tzadik John Zorn - samples, electronics, alto sax, piano, organ, guitar, drums, foley effects Trevor Dunn - bass Brad Lubman - conductor Ikue Mori - laptop, electronics Kenny Wollesen - drums Mathieu Amalric - voice Steve Beck - piano Erik Carlson - violin Stephen Gosling - piano Chris Gross - cello Al Lipowski - vibraphone Rane Moore - clarinet Tara O'Connor - flute Elizabeth Weisser - viola Album available directly from: www.tzadik.com or www.amazon.com www.myspace.com www.facebook.com
- published: 17 Sep 2012
- views: 1952
- author: TheSyrinx64
John Zorn-Spy Vs Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman (FULL ALBUM)
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- Duration: 41:07
- Updated: 01 Dec 2012
"WRU" - 2:38 "Chronology" - 1:08 "Word for Bird" - 1:14 "Good Old Days" - 2:44 "The Disguise" - 1:18 "Enfant" - 2:37 "Rejoicing" - 1:38 "Blues Connotation" - 1:05 "C. & D." - 3:05 "Chippie" - 1:08 "Peace Warriors" - 1:20 "Ecars" - 2:28 "Feet Music" - 4:45 "Broad Way Blues" - 3:42 "Space Church" - 2:28 "Zig Zag" - 2:54 "Mob Job" - 4:24
http://wn.com/John_Zorn-Spy_Vs_Spy_The_Music_of_Ornette_Coleman_FULL_ALBUM
"WRU" - 2:38 "Chronology" - 1:08 "Word for Bird" - 1:14 "Good Old Days" - 2:44 "The Disguise" - 1:18 "Enfant" - 2:37 "Rejoicing" - 1:38 "Blues Connotation" - 1:05 "C. & D." - 3:05 "Chippie" - 1:08 "Peace Warriors" - 1:20 "Ecars" - 2:28 "Feet Music" - 4:45 "Broad Way Blues" - 3:42 "Space Church" - 2:28 "Zig Zag" - 2:54 "Mob Job" - 4:24
- published: 20 Sep 2012
- views: 1089
- author: YIPPYTYOTYAY
Mike Patton and John Zorn (Naked City 1991)
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- Duration: 2:57
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
This is unfortunately maybe the only 3 minutes of video with Mike Patton in it from John Zorn's Naked City at the Wien Jazz Festival, in Austria July 6 1991 No, I don't have the entire concert, sorry, just the audio CD, but would love the whole thing on DVD. Look how young Zorn and Patton look, love Mike's haircut.. lol..
http://wn.com/Mike_Patton_and_John_Zorn_Naked_City_1991
This is unfortunately maybe the only 3 minutes of video with Mike Patton in it from John Zorn's Naked City at the Wien Jazz Festival, in Austria July 6 1991 No, I don't have the entire concert, sorry, just the audio CD, but would love the whole thing on DVD. Look how young Zorn and Patton look, love Mike's haircut.. lol..
- published: 13 Jun 2008
- views: 72413
- author: arstyfairie08
John Zorn "Moonchild"- The Book of Los [Ipsissimus 2010]
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- Duration: 8:22
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
Track 2 "The Book of Los" Ipsissimus 2010. "Los astonish'd and terrified, built furnaces; he formed an Anvil a Hammer of adamant then began the binding of Urizen day and night". (William Blake) John Zorn, Joey Baron, Trevor Dunn, Mike Patton
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Moonchild_The_Book_of_Los_Ipsissimus_2010_
Track 2 "The Book of Los" Ipsissimus 2010. "Los astonish'd and terrified, built furnaces; he formed an Anvil a Hammer of adamant then began the binding of Urizen day and night". (William Blake) John Zorn, Joey Baron, Trevor Dunn, Mike Patton
- published: 16 Oct 2010
- views: 18531
- author: alaraco
Night Music #107 1988 Marianne Faithfull, John Zorn, Aaron Neville, Rob Wasserman, NRBQ
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- Duration: 45:42
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, is a late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. It was hosted by Jools Holland and David Sanborn, and featured Marcus Miller as musical director. Guests included acts such as Sonny Rollins, Shinehead, Sister Carol, Sonic Youth, Joe Sample, Slim Gaillard, Pere Ubu, Pharoah Sanders, and many others. In addition, vintage clips of jazz legends like Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, and Billie Holiday were also featured. The show also featured a house band of Omar Hakim (drums), Marcus Miller (bass), Philippe Saisse (keys), David Sanborn (sax), Hiram Bullock (guitar), and Jools Holland (piano). The show often allowed its guests ample time to explain the origins of their sound, meaning of songs, etc. It also provided a national audience for lesser known acts (like Arto Lindsay's band The Ambitious Lovers). Hal Willner was the music coordinator, responsible for the interesting musical mix-and-matching that took place on the show.
http://wn.com/Night_Music_107_1988_Marianne_Faithfull,_John_Zorn,_Aaron_Neville,_Rob_Wasserman,_NRBQ
Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, is a late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. It was hosted by Jools Holland and David Sanborn, and featured Marcus Miller as musical director. Guests included acts such as Sonny Rollins, Shinehead, Sister Carol, Sonic Youth, Joe Sample, Slim Gaillard, Pere Ubu, Pharoah Sanders, and many others. In addition, vintage clips of jazz legends like Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, and Billie Holiday were also featured. The show also featured a house band of Omar Hakim (drums), Marcus Miller (bass), Philippe Saisse (keys), David Sanborn (sax), Hiram Bullock (guitar), and Jools Holland (piano). The show often allowed its guests ample time to explain the origins of their sound, meaning of songs, etc. It also provided a national audience for lesser known acts (like Arto Lindsay's band The Ambitious Lovers). Hal Willner was the music coordinator, responsible for the interesting musical mix-and-matching that took place on the show.
- published: 27 Nov 2012
- views: 344
- author: crosscurrentjazz
John Zorn - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
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- Duration: 6:41
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
John Zorn - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Album: A Dreamers Christmas Personnel: Marc Ribot, Jamie Saft, Kenny Wollesen, Trevor Dunn, Joey Baron, Cyro Baptista, Mike Patton & John Zorn
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Santa_Claus_Is_Coming_To_Town
John Zorn - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Album: A Dreamers Christmas Personnel: Marc Ribot, Jamie Saft, Kenny Wollesen, Trevor Dunn, Joey Baron, Cyro Baptista, Mike Patton & John Zorn
- published: 14 Oct 2011
- views: 26594
- author: Theholyfilament
John Zorn / Electric Masada - Karaim (part 1)
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- Duration: 9:56
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
John Zorn / Electric Masada perform Karaim (part 1) John Zorn - Alto Sax Marc Ribot - Guitar Jamie Saft - Organ Trevor Dunn - Bass Kenny Wollesen - Drums Cyro Baptista - Percussion
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Electric_Masada_Karaim_part_1
John Zorn / Electric Masada perform Karaim (part 1) John Zorn - Alto Sax Marc Ribot - Guitar Jamie Saft - Organ Trevor Dunn - Bass Kenny Wollesen - Drums Cyro Baptista - Percussion
- published: 12 Oct 2006
- views: 154202
- author: poophat
John Zorn - A Dream Of Nine Nights
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- Duration: 8:34
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Kenny Wollesen - Vibes John Medeski - Piano Trevor Dunn - Bass Joey Baron - Drums -From "At The Gates Of Paradise" (2011)
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_A_Dream_Of_Nine_Nights
Kenny Wollesen - Vibes John Medeski - Piano Trevor Dunn - Bass Joey Baron - Drums -From "At The Gates Of Paradise" (2011)
- published: 20 Oct 2011
- views: 38641
- author: amirseibert
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John Zorn - Jazz in Marciac - Live 2010 (Full Show)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 53:55
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
This is some golden footage here... Pro-shot by Mezzo and the Jazz in Marciac Team. Some of the top musicians in the field. John Zorn - direction, saxophone Marc Ribot - guitar Jamie Saft - piano, orgue Trevor Dunn - bass Kenny Wollesen - vibraphone Joey Baron - drums Cyro Baptista - percussion www.brainphreak.net www.facebook.com
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Jazz_in_Marciac_Live_2010_Full_Show
This is some golden footage here... Pro-shot by Mezzo and the Jazz in Marciac Team. Some of the top musicians in the field. John Zorn - direction, saxophone Marc Ribot - guitar Jamie Saft - piano, orgue Trevor Dunn - bass Kenny Wollesen - vibraphone Joey Baron - drums Cyro Baptista - percussion www.brainphreak.net www.facebook.com
- published: 26 May 2011
- views: 221979
- author: brainphreak
John Zorn's Naked City - Live in NY - April 9th 1992 (full show)
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- Duration: 149:30
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
After watching this you just very well may have a new favorite drummer... John Zorn's Naked City April 9, 1992 Marquee Club, NYC www.brainphreak.net www.facebook.com
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After watching this you just very well may have a new favorite drummer... John Zorn's Naked City April 9, 1992 Marquee Club, NYC www.brainphreak.net www.facebook.com
- published: 23 May 2011
- views: 18247
- author: brainphreak
John Zorn & Naked City with Eye - NYC live
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- Duration: 13:22
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
naked city performing in new york with yamatsuka eye more than singing
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Naked_City_with_Eye_NYC_live
naked city performing in new york with yamatsuka eye more than singing
- published: 21 Sep 2010
- views: 33662
- author: Ugo Fellone
John Zorn - Kisofim - Live '99 (Masada)
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- Duration: 8:23
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Masada String Project, Bar Kokhba and Masada live in Warsaw Summer Jazz Days '99. All bands were founded by the avant-garde jazz musician, composer and arranger John Zorn. Bar Kokhba is: Mark Feldman - Violin Erik Friedlander - Cello Greg Cohen - Double Bass Cyro Baptista - Percussion Joey Baron - Drums Marc Ribot - Guitar
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Kisofim_Live_'99_Masada
Masada String Project, Bar Kokhba and Masada live in Warsaw Summer Jazz Days '99. All bands were founded by the avant-garde jazz musician, composer and arranger John Zorn. Bar Kokhba is: Mark Feldman - Violin Erik Friedlander - Cello Greg Cohen - Double Bass Cyro Baptista - Percussion Joey Baron - Drums Marc Ribot - Guitar
- published: 07 Nov 2011
- views: 3064
- author: inexes9
John Zorn - Electric Masada Live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 55:53
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Electric_Masada_Live
John Zorn - Lilin
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:03
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
John Zorn - Bar Kokhba & Acoustic Massada live in Marciac 2007
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Lilin
John Zorn - Bar Kokhba & Acoustic Massada live in Marciac 2007
- published: 15 Jan 2008
- views: 168149
- author: barbersadagio
John Zorn - Masada - Live at Tonic 1999 - Beeroth
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- Duration: 5:32
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
John Zorn's Masada best rendition of Beeroth. Amazing performance by Joey Baron, who's certainly having a lot of fun! Masada is: John Zorn - Alto saxophone Dave Douglas - Trumpet Greg Cohen - Double Bass Joey Baron - Drums
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Masada_Live_at_Tonic_1999_Beeroth
John Zorn's Masada best rendition of Beeroth. Amazing performance by Joey Baron, who's certainly having a lot of fun! Masada is: John Zorn - Alto saxophone Dave Douglas - Trumpet Greg Cohen - Double Bass Joey Baron - Drums
- published: 12 Sep 2009
- views: 32278
- author: Evenfiell
Naked City / Live
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- Duration: 4:14
- Updated: 24 Nov 2012
A work of John Zorn.
http://wn.com/Naked_City_Live
John Zorn Live in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG; circa ~1987 Pt1
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- Duration: 4:17
- Updated: 10 Nov 2012
John Zorn live on Canadian TV in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG -- circa ~1987
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Live_in_The_Sonny_Clark_Memorial_Quartet_XU_FENG;_circa_~1987_Pt1
John Zorn live on Canadian TV in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG -- circa ~1987
- published: 29 Jul 2009
- views: 3084
- author: Trevor Stenson
John Zorn live at "Jazz in Marciac" 2012
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- Duration: 16:26
- Updated: 12 Dec 2012
Aleph Trio: - John Zorn (saxophone) - Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) - Ches Smith (drums)
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_live_at_Jazz_in_Marciac_2012
Aleph Trio: - John Zorn (saxophone) - Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) - Ches Smith (drums)
- published: 10 Sep 2012
- views: 844
- author: ArsJazzMan
John Zorn - Acoustic Masada Live Full Concert
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 52:34
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Vienne Jazz Festival 2006
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Acoustic_Masada_Live_Full_Concert
John Zorn, David Sanborn, Marcus Miller - Snagglepuss - 1988, Live @ Night Music
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:33
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Amazing combo band playing classic "Naked City" tune. This piece was cut from 'Night Music' ('Sunday Night') show, season 1, episode 7, which went on NBC channel in 1988. It is truly unique - musicians are having fun at most and playing just amazing. You can see here David Sanborn on second sax and Marcus Miller on bass - they both were working at NBC at those times. I suppose it is the only case they both were playing some avantgarde music. :) Sorry for japanese subtitles. Lineup: John Zorn, David Sanborn - as, Hiram Bullock - g, Marcus Miller - b, Philippe Saisse - k, Omar Hakim - d Also in episode 107 Marianne Faithfull, Aaron Neville, Rob Wasserman, John Sebastian and NRBQ band were performing along with Zorn. Wiki: en.wikipedia.org Disclaimer: All names, songs, signs, words and whatever is present in this video are owned by their respectful owners and not by me. I just want to share this piece of beautiful performance with people. Not a single cent were or ever would be gained with this piece of video. Peace.
http://wn.com/John_Zorn,_David_Sanborn,_Marcus_Miller_Snagglepuss_1988,_Live_@_Night_Music
Amazing combo band playing classic "Naked City" tune. This piece was cut from 'Night Music' ('Sunday Night') show, season 1, episode 7, which went on NBC channel in 1988. It is truly unique - musicians are having fun at most and playing just amazing. You can see here David Sanborn on second sax and Marcus Miller on bass - they both were working at NBC at those times. I suppose it is the only case they both were playing some avantgarde music. :) Sorry for japanese subtitles. Lineup: John Zorn, David Sanborn - as, Hiram Bullock - g, Marcus Miller - b, Philippe Saisse - k, Omar Hakim - d Also in episode 107 Marianne Faithfull, Aaron Neville, Rob Wasserman, John Sebastian and NRBQ band were performing along with Zorn. Wiki: en.wikipedia.org Disclaimer: All names, songs, signs, words and whatever is present in this video are owned by their respectful owners and not by me. I just want to share this piece of beautiful performance with people. Not a single cent were or ever would be gained with this piece of video. Peace.
- published: 11 Dec 2011
- views: 8114
- author: Vladimir Luchansky
naked city - "speedfreaks" (live)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:55
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
john zorn's NAKED CITY performing "speedfreaks" live with yamatsuka eye from THE BOREDOMS on vocals.
http://wn.com/naked_city_speedfreaks_live
john zorn's NAKED CITY performing "speedfreaks" live with yamatsuka eye from THE BOREDOMS on vocals.
- published: 25 Mar 2006
- views: 201431
- author: deadguy138
John Zorn - Karet
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:53
- Updated: 23 Oct 2012
performed by Bar Kokhba Sextet
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Karet
John Zorn Live in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG; circa ~1987 Pt2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:49
- Updated: 04 Sep 2012
John Zorn live on Canadian TV in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG -- circa ~1987
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Live_in_The_Sonny_Clark_Memorial_Quartet_XU_FENG;_circa_~1987_Pt2
John Zorn live on Canadian TV in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG -- circa ~1987
- published: 29 Jul 2009
- views: 4381
- author: Trevor Stenson
naked city - sack of shit (live)
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- Duration: 0:47
- Updated: 02 Dec 2012
more naked city craziness from john zorn, bill frissell, fred frith, joey baron, wayne horovitz, and yamatsuka eye.
http://wn.com/naked_city_sack_of_shit_live
more naked city craziness from john zorn, bill frissell, fred frith, joey baron, wayne horovitz, and yamatsuka eye.
- published: 29 Mar 2006
- views: 148151
- author: deadguy138
John Zorn - Makahaa - Live - Brooklyn NY - February 29 2008
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- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 11 Sep 2012
John Zorn - Makahaa (Reprise) from the album "The Gift" - Live at St. Ann's Warehouse - Brooklyn NY - February 29 2008 - Sorry for the shakey footage, it was a dark, seated venue, and I had the LCD screen closed.
http://wn.com/John_Zorn_Makahaa_Live_Brooklyn_NY_February_29_2008
John Zorn - Makahaa (Reprise) from the album "The Gift" - Live at St. Ann's Warehouse - Brooklyn NY - February 29 2008 - Sorry for the shakey footage, it was a dark, seated venue, and I had the LCD screen closed.
- published: 09 Mar 2008
- views: 13342
- author: johnforz
John Zorn, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson - Concert for Japan
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- Duration: 15:04
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
John Zorn, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson performing at theConcert for Japan in NYC at Japan Society, April 9, 2011 For more information on how to donate to Japan Society's Earthquake Relief Fund, please visit: www.japansociety.org One hundred percent of your generous tax-deductible contributions go to organizations that directly help victims recover from the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. In addition to providing support to the above mentioned four organizations, funds will also be used to help in the longer term recovery and reconstruction.
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John Zorn, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson performing at theConcert for Japan in NYC at Japan Society, April 9, 2011 For more information on how to donate to Japan Society's Earthquake Relief Fund, please visit: www.japansociety.org One hundred percent of your generous tax-deductible contributions go to organizations that directly help victims recover from the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. In addition to providing support to the above mentioned four organizations, funds will also be used to help in the longer term recovery and reconstruction.
- published: 15 Apr 2011
- views: 11883
- author: JapanSocietyNYC
naked city - thrash jazz assassin (live)
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- Duration: 0:56
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
more john zorn goodness.
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John Zorn - Karaim - 11. - Live '99 (Masada)
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- Duration: 9:11
- Updated: 25 Oct 2012
Masada String Project, Bar Kokhba and Masada live in Warsaw Summer Jazz Days '99. All bands were founded by the avant-garde jazz musician, composer and arranger John Zorn. Masada is: John Zorn - Alto Saxophone Greg Cohen - Double Bass Dave Douglas - Trumpet Joey Baron - Drums
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Masada String Project, Bar Kokhba and Masada live in Warsaw Summer Jazz Days '99. All bands were founded by the avant-garde jazz musician, composer and arranger John Zorn. Masada is: John Zorn - Alto Saxophone Greg Cohen - Double Bass Dave Douglas - Trumpet Joey Baron - Drums
- published: 03 Jun 2010
- views: 6721
- author: Evenfiell
John Zorn's Masada & Daniel Zamir live in Israel 31.03.08
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- Duration: 10:16
- Updated: 01 Dec 2012
Masada & Daniel Zamir at the John Zorn Festival in Tel Aviv, Israel. Zorn & Zamir with Dave Douglas, Greg Cohen & Joey Baron.
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Masada & Daniel Zamir at the John Zorn Festival in Tel Aviv, Israel. Zorn & Zamir with Dave Douglas, Greg Cohen & Joey Baron.
- published: 01 Apr 2008
- views: 14893
- author: kashpalephesif
"Junior dad" - Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson & John Zorn Live in Paris 2009.09.04
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- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
From "The Yellow Pony and Other Songs and Stories". Live @ Salle Pleyel
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From "The Yellow Pony and Other Songs and Stories". Live @ Salle Pleyel
- published: 10 Sep 2009
- views: 48682
- author: Nafoute
![John Zorn, Fred Frith & Yamatsuka Eye [LIVE]](http://web.archive.org./web/20121226061035im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/5MoMCHc-nsc/default.jpg "John Zorn, Fred Frith & Yamatsuka Eye [LIVE]")
John Zorn, Fred Frith & Yamatsuka Eye [LIVE]
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- Duration: 6:21
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
Live at the Knitting Factory in New York City, NY Date: April 11, 1992
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Live at the Knitting Factory in New York City, NY Date: April 11, 1992
- published: 29 Jul 2009
- views: 6006
- author: Jostoc
53:55
John Zorn - Jazz in Marciac - Live 2010 (Full Show)
This is some golden footage here... Pro-shot by Mezzo and the Jazz in Marciac Team. Some o...
published: 26 May 2011
author: brainphreak
John Zorn - Jazz in Marciac - Live 2010 (Full Show)
This is some golden footage here... Pro-shot by Mezzo and the Jazz in Marciac Team. Some of the top musicians in the field. John Zorn - direction, saxophone Marc Ribot - guitar Jamie Saft - piano, orgue Trevor Dunn - bass Kenny Wollesen - vibraphone Joey Baron - drums Cyro Baptista - percussion www.brainphreak.net www.facebook.com
- published: 26 May 2011
- views: 221979
- author: brainphreak
149:30
John Zorn's Naked City - Live in NY - April 9th 1992 (full show)
After watching this you just very well may have a new favorite drummer... John Zorn's Nake...
published: 23 May 2011
author: brainphreak
John Zorn's Naked City - Live in NY - April 9th 1992 (full show)
After watching this you just very well may have a new favorite drummer... John Zorn's Naked City April 9, 1992 Marquee Club, NYC www.brainphreak.net www.facebook.com
- published: 23 May 2011
- views: 18247
- author: brainphreak
13:22
John Zorn & Naked City with Eye - NYC live
naked city performing in new york with yamatsuka eye more than singing...
published: 21 Sep 2010
author: Ugo Fellone
John Zorn & Naked City with Eye - NYC live
naked city performing in new york with yamatsuka eye more than singing
- published: 21 Sep 2010
- views: 33662
- author: Ugo Fellone
8:23
John Zorn - Kisofim - Live '99 (Masada)
Masada String Project, Bar Kokhba and Masada live in Warsaw Summer Jazz Days '99. All band...
published: 07 Nov 2011
author: inexes9
John Zorn - Kisofim - Live '99 (Masada)
Masada String Project, Bar Kokhba and Masada live in Warsaw Summer Jazz Days '99. All bands were founded by the avant-garde jazz musician, composer and arranger John Zorn. Bar Kokhba is: Mark Feldman - Violin Erik Friedlander - Cello Greg Cohen - Double Bass Cyro Baptista - Percussion Joey Baron - Drums Marc Ribot - Guitar
- published: 07 Nov 2011
- views: 3064
- author: inexes9
55:53
John Zorn - Electric Masada Live
...
published: 02 Mar 2011
author: Ugo Fellone
John Zorn - Electric Masada Live
- published: 02 Mar 2011
- views: 51701
- author: Ugo Fellone
7:03
John Zorn - Lilin
John Zorn - Bar Kokhba & Acoustic Massada live in Marciac 2007...
published: 15 Jan 2008
author: barbersadagio
John Zorn - Lilin
John Zorn - Bar Kokhba & Acoustic Massada live in Marciac 2007
- published: 15 Jan 2008
- views: 168149
- author: barbersadagio
5:32
John Zorn - Masada - Live at Tonic 1999 - Beeroth
John Zorn's Masada best rendition of Beeroth. Amazing performance by Joey Baron, who's cer...
published: 12 Sep 2009
author: Evenfiell
John Zorn - Masada - Live at Tonic 1999 - Beeroth
John Zorn's Masada best rendition of Beeroth. Amazing performance by Joey Baron, who's certainly having a lot of fun! Masada is: John Zorn - Alto saxophone Dave Douglas - Trumpet Greg Cohen - Double Bass Joey Baron - Drums
- published: 12 Sep 2009
- views: 32278
- author: Evenfiell
4:17
John Zorn Live in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG; circa ~1987 Pt1
John Zorn live on Canadian TV in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG -- circa ~1987...
published: 29 Jul 2009
author: Trevor Stenson
John Zorn Live in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG; circa ~1987 Pt1
John Zorn live on Canadian TV in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG -- circa ~1987
- published: 29 Jul 2009
- views: 3084
- author: Trevor Stenson
16:26
John Zorn live at "Jazz in Marciac" 2012
Aleph Trio: - John Zorn (saxophone) - Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) - Ches Smith (drums)...
published: 10 Sep 2012
author: ArsJazzMan
John Zorn live at "Jazz in Marciac" 2012
Aleph Trio: - John Zorn (saxophone) - Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) - Ches Smith (drums)
- published: 10 Sep 2012
- views: 844
- author: ArsJazzMan
52:34
John Zorn - Acoustic Masada Live Full Concert
Vienne Jazz Festival 2006...
published: 02 Mar 2011
author: Ugo Fellone
John Zorn - Acoustic Masada Live Full Concert
Vienne Jazz Festival 2006
- published: 02 Mar 2011
- views: 52846
- author: Ugo Fellone
4:33
John Zorn, David Sanborn, Marcus Miller - Snagglepuss - 1988, Live @ Night Music
Amazing combo band playing classic "Naked City" tune. This piece was cut from 'Night Music...
published: 11 Dec 2011
author: Vladimir Luchansky
John Zorn, David Sanborn, Marcus Miller - Snagglepuss - 1988, Live @ Night Music
Amazing combo band playing classic "Naked City" tune. This piece was cut from 'Night Music' ('Sunday Night') show, season 1, episode 7, which went on NBC channel in 1988. It is truly unique - musicians are having fun at most and playing just amazing. You can see here David Sanborn on second sax and Marcus Miller on bass - they both were working at NBC at those times. I suppose it is the only case they both were playing some avantgarde music. :) Sorry for japanese subtitles. Lineup: John Zorn, David Sanborn - as, Hiram Bullock - g, Marcus Miller - b, Philippe Saisse - k, Omar Hakim - d Also in episode 107 Marianne Faithfull, Aaron Neville, Rob Wasserman, John Sebastian and NRBQ band were performing along with Zorn. Wiki: en.wikipedia.org Disclaimer: All names, songs, signs, words and whatever is present in this video are owned by their respectful owners and not by me. I just want to share this piece of beautiful performance with people. Not a single cent were or ever would be gained with this piece of video. Peace.
- published: 11 Dec 2011
- views: 8114
- author: Vladimir Luchansky
0:55
naked city - "speedfreaks" (live)
john zorn's NAKED CITY performing "speedfreaks" live with yamatsuka eye from THE BOREDOMS ...
published: 25 Mar 2006
author: deadguy138
naked city - "speedfreaks" (live)
john zorn's NAKED CITY performing "speedfreaks" live with yamatsuka eye from THE BOREDOMS on vocals.
- published: 25 Mar 2006
- views: 201431
- author: deadguy138
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John Zorn
Video-Gruß von John Zorn....
published: 15 May 2012
author: moers_festival
John Zorn
Video-Gruß von John Zorn.
8:15
Thurston Moore & John Zorn
Live at le poisson rouge in nyc, 2012.
Shot on an iphone by jtt....
published: 17 Oct 2012
author: Jorge Torres-Torres
Thurston Moore & John Zorn
Live at le poisson rouge in nyc, 2012.
Shot on an iphone by jtt.
4:02
John Zorn v Ljubljani
Zasedba The Dreamers na 50. jazz festivalu Ljublana. John Zorn - saksofon, vodja, Marc Rib...
published: 05 Jul 2009
author: Sniffer Baltazar - Bal
John Zorn v Ljubljani
Zasedba The Dreamers na 50. jazz festivalu Ljublana. John Zorn - saksofon, vodja, Marc Ribot - kitara, Jamie Saft - klaviature, Trevor Dunn - bas, Kenny Wollesen - vibrafon, Cyro Baptista - tolkala, Joey Baron - bobni.
60:00
Roulette TV: JOEY BARON
Avant-garde jazz drummer Joey Baron has worked with an impressive list of musicians, inclu...
published: 20 Apr 2010
author: Roulette Intermedium
Roulette TV: JOEY BARON
Avant-garde jazz drummer Joey Baron has worked with an impressive list of musicians, including everyone from Bill Frisell, Stan Getz, and Tony Bennett to John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Fred Frith, and Tim Berne. His own groups he has led include the "Down Home Group", Barondown, and Killer Joey and was a member of "Naked City" (with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith and Wayne Horvitz) and of Zorn's group Masada (Dave Douglas and Greg Cohen). Joey Baron was born 1955 in Richmond ,Va. He started drumming at age 9, performing profesionally the following year. His early musical education included private drum lessons as well as the wide genre radio programing of the 1960s. After finishing high school early through a special accelerated program, Mr. Baron spent time in Boston attending the Berklee School of Music.He settled in Los Angeles,California in 1975 to realize a dream of playing with the great jazz musician Carmen McRae,consequently becoming a much sought after singer's drummer. Since moving to New York City in 1983, Mr. Baron has continued to expand his scope and develope his musical ideas through collaborations with various artists including Red Rodney, Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Ron Carter, and John Zorn ,with whom the collaboration continues to the present. Current projects include solo concert tours, duo concerts with Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, his own band, "Killer Joey",The John Abercrombie Quartet, and the Schulkowsky, Studer, Baron drum trio.
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John Zorn Live in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG; circa ~1987 Pt2
John Zorn live on Canadian TV in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG -- circa ~1987...
published: 29 Jul 2009
author: Trevor Stenson
John Zorn Live in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG; circa ~1987 Pt2
John Zorn live on Canadian TV in The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet & XU FENG -- circa ~1987
- published: 29 Jul 2009
- views: 4381
- author: Trevor Stenson
0:47
naked city - sack of shit (live)
more naked city craziness from john zorn, bill frissell, fred frith, joey baron, wayne hor...
published: 29 Mar 2006
author: deadguy138
naked city - sack of shit (live)
more naked city craziness from john zorn, bill frissell, fred frith, joey baron, wayne horovitz, and yamatsuka eye.
- published: 29 Mar 2006
- views: 148151
- author: deadguy138
3:17
John Zorn - Makahaa - Live - Brooklyn NY - February 29 2008
John Zorn - Makahaa (Reprise) from the album "The Gift" - Live at St. Ann's Warehouse - Br...
published: 09 Mar 2008
author: johnforz
John Zorn - Makahaa - Live - Brooklyn NY - February 29 2008
John Zorn - Makahaa (Reprise) from the album "The Gift" - Live at St. Ann's Warehouse - Brooklyn NY - February 29 2008 - Sorry for the shakey footage, it was a dark, seated venue, and I had the LCD screen closed.
- published: 09 Mar 2008
- views: 13342
- author: johnforz
15:04
John Zorn, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson - Concert for Japan
John Zorn, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson performing at theConcert for Japan in NYC at Japan...
published: 15 Apr 2011
author: JapanSocietyNYC
John Zorn, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson - Concert for Japan
John Zorn, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson performing at theConcert for Japan in NYC at Japan Society, April 9, 2011 For more information on how to donate to Japan Society's Earthquake Relief Fund, please visit: www.japansociety.org One hundred percent of your generous tax-deductible contributions go to organizations that directly help victims recover from the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. In addition to providing support to the above mentioned four organizations, funds will also be used to help in the longer term recovery and reconstruction.
- published: 15 Apr 2011
- views: 11883
- author: JapanSocietyNYC
photo: AP / Virginie Nguyen Huang
23 Dec 2012
Tweet. Moscow, Dec 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Chemical weapons in Syria are under the control of the government, which has consolidated them in one or two locations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "As of right now, the (Syrian) government is doing all it can to safeguard those weapons," he said. "We are following all leads concerning chemical weapons," Lavrov said ... "My answer is very simple. Why use us as a postman ... pm/ ... ) .. ). ... . ....(size: 3.2Kb)
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24 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling ... I was unprepared for what occurred then ... And maybe this is why that in John's Apocalypse, or the Book of Revelation, the terrifying term "Beast" is (again) reserved for a violent and aggressive individual(s) and empire(s) ... 52 Weekly Reflections On Modern-Day Imperialism, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of John's Apocalyptic Vision, and The Other Side Of Christianity ... 9 ... 10. ....(size: 6.3Kb)
photo: Creative Commons / Axou
24 Dec 2012
Steve Jobs was controversial in life, and now his high-tech mega-yacht is associated with a controversy long after his death. The former Apple CEO's ship was impounded in Amsterdam in the middle of a financial battle over a disputed bill. Phillippe Starck, a French product designer and architect, has alleged that Jobs' heirs owe him 3 million euros for his work on Venus, the 256-foot yacht Jobs commissioned before his death ... ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)
photo: AP / Altaf Qadri
23 Dec 2012
A commission will be set up to probe the gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi and measures to ensure such crimes do not recur while laws will be amended to enhance punishment for rape, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said . He also appealed the thousands of protesters on the capital’s streets, demanding justice for the victim, to withdraw ... “The government is serious on the issue. ... . . ....(size: 2.4Kb)
photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
24 Dec 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan policewoman shot and killed an American adviser outside the police headquarters in Kabul on Monday, the latest in a rising tide of insider attacks by Afghans against their foreign allies, senior Afghan officials said. The woman, identified as Afghan police Sgt ... The woman was taken into Afghan custody shortly after the attack ... As many Afghans, the policewoman uses only one name ... Col ... Gen. John C ... John D ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)
The Examiner
21 Dec 2012
At the end of the booklet included with the recent release of the complete recordings of Hasidic New Wave on John Zorn’s TZADIK label, there is the image of a poster announcing their performance at a club in Salzburg called Rockhouse ... Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Elvin Jones ... For Zorn to gather the entire canon into a single set is a real mitzvah....(size: 4.9Kb)
dusted
14 Dec 2012
What the heck? Looking at this Decembers list, I was already familiar with just about everyone last December. Usually, about half my choices are new-to-me artists ... Label ... Release Date ... ORO ... John Zorn stops by for the first time in ages, to add skronk to "Everyday Pox. His screeches show just how well he understands the high and low ambitions of the band its part Nazgul attack, part free-jazz triplets that become a police siren alert....(size: 12.1Kb)
All About Jazz
13 Dec 2012
Here, guitarist/producer Eraldo Bernocchi teams with Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin, keyboardist Jamie Saft (John Zorn, Bad Brains, Black Shabbis) and drummer Balazs Pandi (Merzbow, Venetian Snares). Fabricated on art-punk rock, supercharged dub, fuzzed-out metal, ethereal sound-shaping, and components that span multiple genres, the ensemble sculpts a distinctive voice, often sprinkled with unorthodox detours and slants ... Personnel....(size: 2.3Kb)
All About Jazz
12 Dec 2012
Natsuki Tamura & Satoko Fujii. Muku. Libra. 2012. Gato Libre. Forever. Libra. 2012. Pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, wife and husband, maintain a staggering productivity, in terms of quantity, quality—and, most incredibly, in terms of variety ... At another, they perform freely improvised duets (as on Chun (Libra, 2008) ... Saxophonist, impresario and rabble-rouser John Zorn is the exemplary case ... Tracks and Personnel. Forever ... ....(size: 3.6Kb)
Star Tribune
09 Dec 2012
Paul coffee shop, shortly after returning from a European tour ... But by then New York avant-gardist John Zorn had enlisted Sparks for a series of albums on his "radical Jewish culture" label Tzadik that dramatically reinvented klezmer and other Jewish roots music ... "I got that idea from John Zorn ... What Zorn wanted was using those traditional pieces as a jumping-off point, but to really stretch the boundaries." ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)
All About Jazz
09 Dec 2012
Portuguese bassist Hugo Carvalhais creates a highly personal musical universe on this, his sophomore release. His compositions draw inspiration from the American free jazz of the sixties, the sonic experimentalism of saxophonist John Zorn and guitarist Fred Frith, and European chamber jazz, but do not surrender to any of these formative influences. Furthermore, Carvalhais chooses a distinct sonic structure for his band ... Track Listing....(size: 2.8Kb)
All About Jazz
06 Dec 2012
View All12345Next ». Tampere Jazz Happening. Tampere, Finland. November 1-4, 2012. Here's another veteran jazz festival, and one which has been gaining increasing international recognition during recent years. This is a Happening with a personality. A distinct orientation to its programming, and a taste for the more adventurous aspects of jazz ... Other precedents called to mind were saxophonist John Zorn's Spy Vs ... No pauses for thought ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
Richmond Times Dispatch
06 Dec 2012
Richmond’s Top 10. Shows and sounds of note for your listening pleasure this week.. 1. Chief Keef. “True Religion Fein (featuring Yale Lucciani)” from the release “Back From the Dead” (GBE) ... Broad St.) on Friday ... Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 in advance and $45 at the door. 2 ... 3 ... “Static” ... Wordless prog-punk jazz from this late, great Richmond trio that owes as much to Judas Priest and John Zorn as it does to NOMEANSNO and Jesus Lizard ... ....(size: 5.2Kb)
All About Jazz
30 Nov 2012
Known for his various collaborations with an almost endless list of musicians that include the likes of Herbie Hancock, John Zorn, Zakir Hussain, and Raoul Bjorkenheim and explorations into the genres of dub, ambient, avant-dance, hip-hop, punk, and his more recent African music, Laswell distills varying sounds into revealing their fundamental essence....(size: 4.7Kb)
The Quietus
29 Nov 2012
Combining Neu! rhythms, sinister John Carpenter synths and vocals distorted to the point of unintelligibility with snatches of mutant disco, ... Of course I got into the nu-metal thing, me being who I was, and really about that time I started discovering bands like Mr Bungle, and John Zorn and Merzbow, and started branching out from there, I suppose....(size: 9.1Kb)
The New York Times
27 Nov 2012
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. Tags.. Philosophy. A new biography of Jacques Derrida has hit the shelves, written by Benoît Peters, whose last book was a life of the cartoonist and Tintin creator Hergé. The match is not terribly inappropriate ... Fetal Positions ... Also. ... The Polish philosophical journal Avant devotes an issue to music, and specifically the work of John Zorn ... Socrates ... Draft....(size: 12.8Kb)
The Quietus
21 Nov 2012
This one ought to write itself really ... A gift, then. And I went into this album, having also been impressed by Devilman live, with what I thought was pretty good idea of what it would sound like ... Elsewhere there are hints of John Zorn-esque spazz-metal on '93', as well as a properly funny dip into ersatz Middle Eastern melody that gradually loops into and around itself before dissolving into hissing static ... ....(size: 3.2Kb)
Skiddle
19 Nov 2012
M&P;'s. Date ... Venue ... Location. Manchester » ... They play fresh, contemporary and original material written specifically for this line up, drawing on influences from the Joe Henderson and Sonny Rollins chordless trios, to the more modern groups of Dave Douglas and John Zorn ("it's kind of funky, modern, hard-swing") ... ....(size: 1.6Kb)
| John Zorn | |
|---|---|
 Zorn performing in 2006 |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Dekoboko Hajime, Rav Tzizit |
| Born | (1953-09-02) September 2, 1953 (age 58) |
| Origin | New York City, United States |
| Genres | Avant-garde, experimental[1] |
| Occupations | Composer, producer |
| Instruments | Saxophone, clarinet, flute, guitar, keyboards, double bass, drums, percussion |
| Years active | 1973–present |
| Labels | Tzadik, Avant, DIW, Elektra Nonesuch, Earache, Hat Hut, Shimmy-Disc, Eva, Toy's Factory, Nato, Lumina, Black Saint, Subharmonic, Parachute, Yukon, Rift |
| Associated acts | Naked City, Masada, Painkiller, Hemophiliac, Weird Little Boy, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson |
| Website | www.tzadik.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Clarinet, Piano, Theremin, Wind machine | |
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer. He has had experience with a variety of genres including jazz, rock, hardcore punk, classical, extreme metal, klezmer, film, cartoon, popular, and improvised music.[2] Zorn brings these styles to his work,[2] which he refers to with the label avant-garde/experimental.[1]
Zorn has stated: "All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I'm an additive person - the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can't see the connections, but they are there."[3]
Zorn has led the punk jazz band Naked City and the klezmer-influenced quartet Masada, composed Masada Songbooks (written concert music for classical ensembles), and has produced music for film and documentary.
Zorn established himself within the New York City downtown music movement in the mid 1970s and has since composed and performed with a wide range of musicians working in diverse musical areas. By the early 1990s Zorn was working extensively in Japan, attracted by that culture's openness about borrowing and remixing ingredients from elsewhere, before returning to New York as a permanent base in the mid-1990s.[4][5][6] Zorn has undertaken many tours of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, often performing at festivals with varying ensembles to display his diverse output.[7][8]
After releasing albums on several independent US and European labels, Zorn signed with Elektra Nonesuch and attracted wide acclaim in 1985 when he released The Big Gundown, a cover of music composed by Ennio Morricone.[9] He attracted further attention when worldwide by following this with the release of Spillane in 1987, and Naked City by Naked City in 1989.[1][10][11][12] Zorn then recorded on the Japanese DIW label and curated the Avant subsidiary label before forming Tzadik in 1995, where he was prolific in issuing several new recordings each year as well as releasing the work of many other musicians.
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Biography[link]
Early life[link]
John Zorn was born in New York City and learned piano, guitar and flute as a child.[13] He grew up in a household full of a broad spectrum of sound: his mother listened to classical and world music, his father to jazz, French chansons, and country music, and his older brother to doo-wop, and 1950s rock and roll.[14] Zorn recalled an episode of his life, after buying a record by Mauricio Kagel in 1968 at the age of fifteen, that influenced his subsequent taste for experimental and avant-garde music:[15][16]
Here we are: Kagel, "Improvisation Ajoutée." I bought this when I was about 15. Still marked: got it at Sam Goody in September, for 98 cents. And it's a really crazy piece, with the guys screaming and hooting, something that attracted me. I was over at my friend's house, and he really liked the Rolling Stones. And I just got this record, and I put it on and he looked at me like...who the hell are you? Are you out of your mind? And his mother was there, and she was like [puts palm on cheek] my God, take this off... and right then and there, I decided: this was the music.
Zorn spent time in his teenage years listening to classical music, film music, and, "listening to The Doors and playing bass in a surf band."[14] He taught himself about orchestration and counterpoint, by transcribing scores and using in his own compositions, a procedure of "plagiarizing, stealing, quoting, or whatever you can call it", of collage and transposition into his own world, that he has been using throughout his career.[17] He also studied music under Leonardo Balada.[citation needed]
Zorn picked up the saxophone after discovering Anthony Braxton's album For Alto (1969) while studying composition at Webster College (now Webster University) in St. Louis, Missouri, where he attended classes taught by Oliver Lake.[18][19] While still at Webster, Zorn incorporated elements of free jazz, avant-garde and experimental music, film scores, performance art and the cartoon scores of Carl Stalling into his first recordings which were later released as First Recordings 1973 (1995).[20]
Zorn dropped out of college. Following a stint on the West Coast, Zorn moved to Manhattan. There he gave concerts in his apartment and other small NY venues, playing saxophone and a variety of reeds, duck calls, tapes, and other instruments.[21] He founded a performance art project called Theatre of Musical Optics, in 1975 and became a major participant in the fertile, avant-garde, downtown music scene as a composer, performer and producer of music that challenged the confines of any single musical genre.[22] Zorn later used the term "Theatre of Musical Optics" for the publishing company of his compositions.
Early composition[link]
Zorn's early major compositions included several "game pieces" or "game theories", which he's described as "complex systems harnessing improvisers in flexible compositional formats,"[23] and which "involved strict rules, role playing, prompters with flashcards, all in the name of melding structure and improvisation in a seamless fashion."[1] Game pieces were often named after sports, and include Baseball (1976), Lacrosse (1976), Dominoes (1977), Curling (1977), Golf (1977), Hockey (1978), Cricket (1978), Fencing (1978), Pool (1979), and Archery (1979) which was recorded at Martin Bisi's studio. His most enduring "game piece" is Cobra (1984) which he first released on album in 1987 and in subsequent versions in 1992, 1994 and 2002, and has revisited in performance many times.[24][25][26] Zorn addresses both his own history and the musical philosophy behind his early works in the book Talking Music by William Duckworth.[27]
In 1981, Zorn was "blowing duck calls in buckets of water at fringe venues," which included 8BC, Roulette, Chandelier, and Zorn's own clubhouse, the Saint.[1] Zorn's first solo saxophone (and duck call) recordings were originally released in two volumes as The Classic Guide to Strategy in 1983 and 1986 on the Lumina label. Zorn's early small group improvisations are documented on Locus Solus (1983) which featured Zorn with various combinations of other improvisers including Christian Marclay, Arto Lindsay, Wayne Horvitz, Ikue Mori, and Anton Fier. Ganryu Island featured a series of duets by Zorn with Satoh Michihiro on shamisen, which received limited release on the Yukon label in 1984. Zorn has subsequently released these recordings as CDs on Tzadik making them more widely available than the original vinyl pressings.
Breakthrough recordings[link]
Zorn's breakthrough recording was 1985's The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone, where Zorn offered radical arrangements of the Roman composer's themes from movies including The Big Gundown (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), A Fistful of Dynamite (1971), and Once Upon a Time in America (1984). The Big Gundown was endorsed by Morricone, who is quoted as saying: "This is a record that has fresh, good and intelligent ideas. It is realization on a high level, a work done by a maestro with great science-fantasy and creativity... Many people have done versions of my pieces, but no one has done them like this".[28] Zorn's versions of Morricone's compositions incorporated elements of traditional Japanese music, soul jazz, and other diverse musical genres. Zorn's fifteenth-anniversary re-release of the album featured additional explorations of Morricone's work.
He first released the composition "Godard", a tribute to French film-maker Jean-Luc Godard whose jump-cut technique inspired Zorn's compositional approach, on the French tribute album The Godard Fans: Godard Ca Vous Chante? in 1986.[29] Zorn followed this with his second major-label release Spillane in 1987 composed of three different tribute compositions. The title track featured text by Arto Lindsay set to an array of sonic film noir references, "Two-Lane Highway", a blues-based form to highlight the guitar of Albert Collins and "Forbidden Fruit", Zorn's tribute to a Japanese film star, performed by the Kronos Quartet.[29] Further exploration of film noir themes were recorded for radio plays and released by Zorn as The Bribe: variations and extensions on Spillane (1998).[30] "Godard" and "Spillane" were re-released as a single CD, Godard/Spillane, on Tzadik in 1999.[31]
These pieces are described by Zorn as "file-card compositions", a method of combining composition and improvisation in which Zorn would write down a description of what he wanted on file-cards and arrange them to form the piece.[32] Zorn described the process in 2003: "I write in moments, in disparate sound blocks, so I find it convenient to store these events on filing cards so they can be sorted and ordered with minimum effort. Pacing is essential. If you move too fast, people tend to stop hearing the individual moments as complete in themselves and more as elements of a sort of cloud effect... I worked 10 to 12 hours a day for a week, just orchestrating these file cards. It was an intense process - one I don't want to go through again."[3]
Zorn's "file-card" method of organizing sound blocks into an overall structure largely depended on the musicians he chose, the way they interpreted what was written on the file cards, and their relationship with Zorn. "I'm not going to sit in some ivory tower and pass my scores down to the players." said Zorn, "I have to be there with them, and that's why I started playing saxophone, so that I could meet musicians. I still feel that I have to earn a player's trust before they can play my music. At the end of the day, I want players to say: this was fun - it was a lot of fucking work, and it's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it was worth the effort."[3]
Jazz interpreter[link]
Beginning in 1986 Zorn participated in several projects focused on modern jazz composers which highlighted his saxophone style. These included Voodoo (1986) by The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet, with Wayne Horvitz, Ray Drummond and Bobby Previte and Spy vs Spy (1989) featuring hardcore punk-informed interpretations of Ornette Coleman's music performed by Zorn and Tim Berne on saxophones, Mark Dresser on bass and Joey Baron and Michael Vatcher on drums.[33] News for Lulu (1988) and More News for Lulu (1992) featured Zorn, Bill Frisell and George Lewis performing compositions by Kenny Dorham, Sonny Clark, Freddie Redd, and Hank Mobley. He performed on two recordings by organist Big John Patton - Blue Planet Man (1993) and Minor Swing (1995) and contributed to the Sax Legends series (later re-released as The Colossal Saxophone Sessions) in 1993 with a version of Wayne Shorter's composition "Devil's Island" alongside Lee Konitz, who Zorn has described as "one of my all-time heroes".[34]
While Zorn is often considered a jazz musician his schema is considerably broader. He stated: "The term 'jazz', per se, is meaningless to me in a certain way. Musicians don’t think in terms of boxes. I know what jazz music is. I studied it. I love it. But when I sit down and make music, a lot of things come together. And sometimes it falls a little bit toward the classical side, sometimes it falls a little bit towards the jazz, sometimes it falls toward rock, sometimes it doesn’t fall anywhere, it's just floating in limbo. But no matter which way it falls, it's always a little bit of a freak. It doesn’t really belong anywhere. It's something unique, it's something different, it's something out of my heart. It's not connected with those traditions."[1] "But the music is not jazz music, it’s not classical music, it’s not rock music. It’s a new kind of music... So I feel like that created a deep misunderstanding in what this music is. People started judging this new music with the standards of jazz, with the definitions of what jazz is and isn’t, because stories about it appeared in jazz magazines. And now I’ll do a gig at the Marciac Jazz Festival and I’ll get offstage and Wynton Marsalis will say, 'That’s not jazz.' And I’ll say, 'You’re right! But this is the only gig I’ve got, man. Give me another festival and I’ll play there.'"[35]
Film music[link]
Zorn has written music for documentaries, underground films, television advertisements and cartoons which are documented in the Filmworks albums on the Tzadik label. Some of these film scores are jazz-influenced, others classical, and most feature ensembles consisting of rotating combinations of downtown musicians. Zorn has often used his cinematic and television commissions to experiment with line-ups and forms that would become more established parts of his musical canon.
Zorn stated that "After my record The Big Gundown came out I was convinced that a lot of soundtrack work was going to be coming my way".[36] While Hollywood acclaim was not forthcoming he attracted the attention of many independent filmmakers. The first director to commission him was Rob Schwebber for the 1986 short White and Lazy followed by his work for Sheila McLaughlin's film, She Must Be Seeing Things (1986). In 1990, he composed the soundtrack for the Raul Ruiz film The Golden Boat. All these soundtracks appeared on Filmworks 1986-1990 along with a sixty-four second interpretation of the theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly which featured future members of Naked City.
Zorn's second Filmworks release documented his Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill (1996) which was composed for the film Trespass (1992) but replaced by a score by Ry Cooder.[37] Filmworks III: 1990-1995 (1997) featured the first recordings by the Masada lineup for Joe Chappelle's Thieves Quartet (1993) along with early drafts for the Cynical Hysterie Hour project, duets with Marc Ribot which featured in Mei-Juin Chen's Hollywood Hotel (1994), and a series of commercial soundtracks for the advertising firm Weiden and Kennedy, including one directed by Jean-Luc Godard - a long-term Zorn inspiration.[38] Filmworks IV: S&M + More (1997) and Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy (1996) both included music written for films dealing with BDSM.[39] Filmworks VI: 1996 contains the soundtracks to three underground films produced in 1996; Dina Waxman's Anton, Mailman, Henry Hills' Mechanics of the Brain, and Maria Beatty's The Black Glove.
Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour re-released the themes that Zorn produced for a Japanese cartoon which had only been previously available in limited release in Japan. Zorn regained the rights to these recordings by trading a booking at The Knitting Factory to Sony executives.[40] Filmworks VIII: 1997 features music for the documentary Port Of Last Resort (1998), which detailed the experiences of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during the years preceding World War II, and the soundtrack to the underground film Latin Boys Go to Hell (1997).[41][42]
Zorn's next soundtrack work did not appear until 2000 with Filmworks IX: Trembling Before G-d featuring music for an award winning documentary about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews trying to reconcile their sexuality with their faith directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski.[43] The following year Filmworks X: In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2001) featured music for a documentary by Martina Kudlacek on the life and work of underground filmaker Maya Deren.[44]
The year 2002 was a very productive one for Zorn's cinematic scores. Filmworks XI: Secret Lives (2002) featured the Masada String Trio performing music for Aviva Slesin's documentary film on Jewish children hidden from the Nazis.[45] Filmworks XII (2002) features music for three documentaries; Homecoming: Celebrating Twenty Years of Dance at PS 122, Shaolin Ulysses, a film about Shaolin Monks in America, and variations on the theme for Family Found, a documentary on outsider artist Morton Bartlett.[46][47][48] Zorn released his third soundtrack collection of 2002 with Filmworks XIII: Invitation to a Suicide, written for a black comedy about a man selling tickets to his own suicide to save his father's life.[49]
Zorns next two Filmworks releases featured in documentaries examining Jewish identity and antisemitism. Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking (2003) provided the soundtrack a documentary about an Orthodox Jewish father attempting to alert his sons of the dangers of creating barriers between themselves and those outside their faith.[50] Filmworks XV: Protocols of Zion (2005) featured music for a documentary about a resurgence of antisemitism in the United States in the wake of the September 11 attacks.[51]
Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death (2005) presented themes for a documentary portraying hazardous employment undertaken in the Ukraine, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and China.[52]
Filmworks XVII (2006) featured music for Martina Kudlacek's documentary Notes on Marie Menken intertwined with Zorn's percussive score for Beth Cataldo's portrait Ray Bandar: A Life with Skulls.[53][54] Filmworks XVIII: The Treatment (2006) featured music for Oren Rudavsky's romantic comedy based on the tango music of Astor Piazolla.[55]
Filmworks XIX: The Rain Horse (2008) was written for an animated children's short film by Russian director Dimitri Gellar. Also released in 2008 were Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem containing music for a documentary on the Jewish writer Sholem Aleichem, Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum featuring soundtracks for another of Maria Beatty's films and a documentary on the restoration of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, and Filmworks XXII: The Last Supper.
Hardcore[link]
Zorn established Naked City in 1988 as a "compositional workshop" to test the limitations of a rock band format.[56] Featuring Zorn on saxophone, Bill Frisell (guitars), Fred Frith (bass), Wayne Horvitz (keyboards), Joey Baron (drums), and occasional vocals from Yamatsuka Eye, Bob Dorough, and later Mike Patton, Naked City incorporated Zorn's appreciation of hardcore bands like Agnostic Front and grindcore bands like Napalm Death with his other influences and experimented with compositional form and cover versions.[57]
Named after a 1945 book of graphic black and white photographs by Weegee the band performed an aggressive mix of "soundtrack themes, bluesy hard bop, speedy hardcore rock, squealing free jazz [and] metallic funk".[58] Zorn has stated that "Naked City started with rhythm and blues/Spillane type things then went into this hard-core thing... because I was living in Japan and experiencing a lot of alienation and rejection... My interest in hard-core also spurred the urge to write shorter and shorter pieces."[59]
Naked City followed the release of their self-titled album with Torture Garden a collection of 42 "hardcore miniatures", intense brief compositions often lasting less than a minute, in 1989. Some of these tracks had featured on Naked City and others would resurface on the band's next full-length release, Grand Guignol (1992), which also included performances of works by Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, Orlande de Lassus, Charles Ives, and Olivier Messiaen. The band's third album, Heretic (1992), featured more of these short improvisations produced for the soundtrack of an underground S/M film Jeux des Dames Cruelles. The band released a second EP, Leng Tch'e, in 1992 featuring a single composition which lasted just over half an hour. Radio, released in 1993, was the first Naked City album composed solely by Zorn, and featured tracks drawing on a wide range of musical influences including Charles Mingus, Little Feat, Ruins, Booker T. and the M.G.'s, Colin Wilson, Albert King, Chuck Brown, Orchestra Baobab, the Accüsed, the Meters, Tony Williams' Lifetime, Anton Webern, Sammy Cahn, Frank Sinatra, Morton Feldman, Igor Stravinsky, the Melvins, Beatmasters, Septic Death, Abe Schwartz, Ivo Papasov, Naftule Brandwein, Repulsion, Led Zeppelin, Bernard Herrmann, Santana, Extreme Noise Terror, Conway Twitty, Siege, Ornette Coleman, Corrosion of Conformity, Massacre, Quincy Jones, Sam Fuller, Funkadelic, Carcass, Liberace, Jan Hammer, Eddie Blackwell, Charlie Haden, Mick Harris, Carole King, Red Garland, Boredoms, Jerry Reed, SPK and Roger Williams in addition to Zorn's previously identified touchstones.[60] The final recording from the band Absinthe (1993) featured a blend of ambient noise styled compositions with tracks titled after the works of Paul Verlaine, Charles Baudelaire and other figures in the fin de siècle Decadent movement, and a dedication to Olivier Messiaen. Zorn disbanded Naked City after this release but briefly reformed the band for a European tour in 2003.
Zorn also formed Painkiller with Bill Laswell on bass and Mick Harris on drums in 1991. Painkiller's first two releases, Guts of a Virgin (1991) and Buried Secrets (1992), also featured short grindcore and free jazz-inspired compositions. They released their first live album, Rituals: Live in Japan, on the Japanese Toys Factory label in 1993, followed by the double CD Execution Ground (1994), which featured longer dub and ambient-styled pieces. A second live album, Talisman: Live in Nagoya, was released in 2002 and the band was featured on Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 12 (2005) with Hamid Drake replacing Harris on drums and guest vocalist Mike Patton.[61]
Both bands attracted worldwide interest, particularly in Japan, where Zorn had relocated following a three-month residency in Tokyo.[62] Zorn collaborated with, and produced, numerous Japanese 'noise' artists including Merzbow, Otomo Yoshihide, Melt Banana and frequent collaborator Yamatsuka Eye. Many of these artists have now released albums on Tzadik and some regularly travel to New York to perform.
Releases from both bands were criticized for their graphic album covers. The cover of the eponymous album by Naked City used the Weegee photograph "Corpse with Revolver C.A. 1940", which shows a gangland killing as did their later live album.[63] Zorn left Electra Nonesuch after the company's response to the artwork for Naked City's Grand Guignol, releasing the remaining Naked City albums on a Japanese-based label, Avant.[64] The Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence protested against Zorn because they believed that the images used in the graphic design of Naked City's Torture Garden and Leng Tch'e portrayed degrading images of Asian people. To avoid problems, Zorn removed the original albums from retail sale and later replaced the artwork with new packaging titled Black Box.[65] Painkiller's Guts of a Virgin EP was banned in the UK after customs seized and destroyed the first shipment for violating the Obscene Publications Act.[66] Execution Ground was also released with the original cover photograph of a lynching removed. Zorn later re-released the Naked City and Painkiller albums as box sets with restored artwork after forming his own record label.[67]
Zorn recorded Hemophiliac in 2002 with Mike Patton and Ikue Mori which continued his interest in hardcore improvisations. The first release from this trio was a double CD set that was signed by the performers. Limited to 2,500 copies, this album soon became a highly sought-after collectors item.[68] The trio also released a live recording as part of Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration Series.
In 2006 Zorn formed the hardcore voice/bass/drums trio of Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn, and Joey Baron which became known as the Moonchild Trio.[69] That year two albums of Zorn's compositions performed by the trio were released: Moonchild: Songs Without Words and Astronome. A third album with the trio, but also featuring Zorn, Ikue Mori, Jamie Saft and chorus, Six Litanies for Heliogabalus, was released in 2007.[70] Their fourth release The Crucible appeared in 2008.[71]
Concert music[link]
John Zorn has established a diverse repertoire of music written for chamber musicians and orchestras. As Zorn's interest in Naked City waned he "started hearing classical music in [his] head again."[72] Zorn began composing the suites Elegy (1992) (dedicated to Jean Genet) and Kristallnacht (1993) both of which drew on chamber music arrangements of strings, percussion and electronic instruments.
Zorn was quoted in 1998 as saying "Sometimes I get the feeling that people just don't see me as a composer, but it's what I've always been since I was eight years old... I've always thought of myself as a composer, but the world has had a hard time looking at me as a composer because a lot of what I compose is controversial."[73] The establishment of Tzadik allowed Zorn to release many compositions which he had written, over the previous two decades, for classical ensembles. Zorn's earliest released "classical" composition (for five flutes), "Christabel", was written in 1972 and first appeared on Angelus Novus in 1998. Redbird (containing new compositions for bass drums and a harp/viola/cello/percussion quartet inspired by Agnes Martin) and The Book of Heads (35 etudes for solo guitar written in 1978 for Eugene Chadbourne and realised by Marc Ribot) were released in 1995 as part of Tzadik's Composer Series. Zorn credits the composition of his 1988 piece for string quartet "Cat O' Nine Tails", commissioned and originally released by the Kronos Quartet, to awakening him to the possibilities of writing for classical musicians. This composition was featured on The String Quartets (1999) and Cartoon S/M (2000) along with variations on "Kol Nidre", inspired by the Jewish prayer of atonement which was written at the same time as (but not part of) the first Masada Book.[74] Duras: Duchamp (1997) consists of two 'tribute' compositions, the first dedicated to Marguerite Duras has four movements lasting roughly thirty-four minutes influenced by the composition of Oliver Messiaen, the second "69 Paroxyms for Marcel Duchamp" lasts just over thirteen minutes. Aporias: Requia for Piano and Orchestra (1998) was Zorn's first full-scale orchestral release featuring pianist Stephen Drury, the Hungarian Radio Children's Choir and the American Composers Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.
Songs from the Hermetic Theatre (2001) featured four experimental compositions; "American Magus", was Zorn's first piece of electronic music dedicated to Harry Smith; "BeuysBlock", a meditation on the work of Joseph Beuys; "In the Very Eye of Night", a tribute to Maya Deren; and "The Nerve Key", Zorn's first piece of computer music. Madness, Love and Mysticism (2001) featured "Le Mômo", inspired by Antonin Artaud, performed by Stephen Drury (piano) and Jennifer Choi (violin); "Untitled", dedicated to Joseph Cornell, a cello solo for Erik Friedlander; and "Amour Fou" featuring the trio. Chimeras (2001) was inspired by Arnold Schoenberg's atonal composition "Pierrot Lunaire".
Several of Zorn's later concert works drew inspiration from mysticism and the works of Aleister Crowley in particular. Magick (2004) featured the Crowley Quartet on "Necronomicon: for string quartet" and "Sortilège" written for two bass clarinets. A 2009 performance of "Necronomicon" was described as "...frenetic vortexes of violent, abrasive motion, separated by eerily becalmed, suspenseful sections with moody, even prayerful melodies. The music is sensational and evocative, but never arbitrary; you always sense a guiding hand behind the mayhem".[75] Mysterium released in 2005 featured "Orphée" performed by a sextet of flute, viola, harp, harpsichord and electronics; "Frammenti Del Sappho" for female chorus; and "Wulpurgisnacht" for string trio. Rituals (2005) featured Zorn's five movement opera for mezzo soprano and ten instruments composed for the Bayreuth Opera Festival in 1998. From Silence to Sorcery (2007) features three compositions; "Goetia" consists of eight variations for solo violin performed by Jennifer Choi; "Gris-Gris" is composition for thirteen tuned drums performed by William Winant; and "Shibboleth" is a tribute to Paul Celan scored for clavichord, strings and percussion.
Zorn's concert works have been performed all over the world and he has received commissions from the New York Philharmonic and Brooklyn Philharmonic.[76] When the piece for the Brooklyn Philharmonic was played at New Music America festival, he wrote in the pamphlet with the music:[77][78]
Less than an actual music festival, New Music America is a one-sided overview that's more about politics, marketing, and sales than about the music it pretends to support...it's no more than a convention for the people in the music business who try to "out-hip" each other in the manipulation of artists. This postmodern yuppie tendency of business people dictating creative policy to artists is a very real danger that I intend to avoid at all costs.
Masada Books[link]
Main article: Masada (band)
John Zorn recorded Kristallnacht in November 1992, his premiere work of radical Jewish culture, featuring a suite of seven compositions reflecting the infamous Night of Broken Glass in late 1938 where Jews were targets of violence and destruction in Germany and Austria.[79] The experience prompted Zorn to further explore his Jewish heritage and composing using Jewish musical styles.[80][81] Zorn then set himself the task of writing 100 compositions within a year incorporating klezmer styles with his already broad musical palette.[82] Within three years, the number of compositions had grown to 200 and became known as the first Masada Book. Zorn explained:
The project for Masada was to create something positive in the Jewish tradition something that maybe takes the idea of Jewish music into the 21st century the way jazz developed from the teens and 1920s into the '40s, the '50s, the '60s and on...... My initial plan was to write 100 tunes in a year that touched upon the Jewish tradition and that was an interesting challenge. It was really fun as a composer to come home and write a something that could be finished sometimes in 10 minutes, sometimes in an hour or sometimes an evening...
... The Masada songbook was really something that was like the Irving Berlin songbook or the Burt Bacharach songbook or the Thelonious Monk songbook. Here's another lifetime for me. So when I look at what's been accomplished in the world of Masada, it's kind of unbelievable. Of course I had no idea at the times I started. My initial idea was to write a hundred tunes. And then I ended up writing over 200 for the first book and then performed it countless time for years.[83]
The initial releases featuring this compositional approach were ten albums by Masada appearing on the Japanese DIW label from 1994. Masada (later referred to as "acoustic" Masada) was an Ornette Coleman-inspired quartet with Zorn (alto saxophone), Joey Baron (drums), Dave Douglas (trumpet), and Greg Cohen (bass) that performed jazz-styled compositions based on Sephardic scales and rhythms.[84] The original Masada albums were titled after the first ten letters of the Hebrew Alphabet – Alef, Beit, Gimel, Dalet, Hei, Vav, Zayin, Het, Tet and Yod – and contained compositions with Hebrew titles. Further releases by Masada consisted of live performances of the band recorded in Jerusalem, Taipei, Middleheim, Seville and in New York at the Knitting Factory and at Tonic and as a DVD, and a double CD of unreleased studio recordings, Sanhedrin 1994-1997 (2005).
The Masada quartet performed at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in March 2007 for what were billed as their final concerts.[85] Zorn reformed the band as a sextet with Uri Caine and Cyro Baptista in 2009 saying:
I felt like we kind of hit a plateau a little bit with it in 2007 and I said, “Well, maybe the quartet is really done. Maybe we’ve accomplished what we can accomplish. Maybe it’s time to put this to bed.” And then I was asked by the Marciac Jazz Festival to put together a slightly larger group. They asked me what if I added a couple of people to Masada and I said, “I can’t add anybody to the quartet. The quartet is the quartet, that’s what we do.” But then I thought, “Well, if I was going to add someone I would probably ask Uri and Cyro.” So we tried it at Marciac and it was unbelievable. We didn’t even have any rehearsal time. I just passed the charts out and said, “OK, just watch me because I’ll be conducting. Let’s just do it.” And it was one of those magical clicks on the bandstand that sometimes happens. So yeah, this band is taking off again. After 15 years of doing this music, we can still find new things.[35]
The Masada Book has been performed by many different ensembles and musicians. The Masada String Trio composed of Greg Cohen (bass), Mark Feldman (violin), and Erik Friedlander (cello) regularly performs and records Zorn's Masada pieces. This group, with the addition of Marc Ribot (guitar), Cyro Baptista (percussion), and Joey Baron (drums) also perform as the Bar Kohkba Sextet. Electric Masada, the most recent regular Masada ensemble usually features Zorn, Baptista, Baron, and Ribot, along with Trevor Dunn (bass), Ikue Mori (electronics), Jamie Saft (keyboards) and Kenny Wollesen (drums).[86] A Tenth Anniversary Series of Masada recordings was released by Zorn beginning in 2003. The series featured five albums of Masada themes including Masada Guitars by Marc Ribot/Bill Frisell/Tim Sparks, Masada Recital by Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier, Masada Rock by Rashanim and two albums featuring various artists - Voices in the Wilderness and The Unknown Masada.
In 2004, Zorn began composing the second Masada Book, The Book of Angels, resulting in an additional 300 compositions.[87][88] Zorn explained:
After 10 years of performing the first book, I thought 'Maybe it'd be nice to write some more tunes.' And I wrote 300 more tunes. When I started writing those it was 'Let's see if I can write a hundred songs in a month this time.' I've been working on these scales and playing these tunes all this time. In the back of my head somewhere are lodged all kinds of new ideas. Let's see if I can come up with 100 tunes in a month instead of in a yr. So in the first month, I popped out a hundred tunes; the second month, another hundred; in the third month, a third 100 tunes. I had no idea that was going to happen.[83]
He has released several albums of Masada Book Two compositions performed by other artists. Recordings by the Jamie Saft Trio, Masada String Trio, Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier, Koby Israelite, The Cracow Klezmer Band, Uri Caine, Marc Ribot, Erik Friedlander, Secret Chiefs 3, Bar Kokhba Sextet, Medeski, Martin and Wood, and the Masada Quintet have been released in this series. The titles of many Masada Book Two compositions are derived from demonology and Judeo-Christian mythology.
Tzadik record label[link]
Main article: Tzadik Records
In 1992 John Zorn collaborated with the Japanese Disc Union label to curate the Avant imprint, a subsidiary of the DIW jazz label which released the first Masada albums. Several Naked City recordings were released through the Avant label as well as many others on which Zorn featured downtown musicians including Derek Bailey, Buckethead, Eugene Chadbourne, Dave Douglas, Erik Friedlander, Wayne Horvitz, Ikue Mori, Bobby Previte, Zeena Parkins and Marc Ribot.
In 1995, in co-operation with jazz producer Kazunori Sugiyama, Zorn established the Tzadik label to ensure availability of his catalogue and promote experimental musicians. Zorn said that the label is a way to shield from the power of the music industry, with "giant corporations acting like slave masters, like the return of the pharaohs," merging together to get even more powerful like in the Polygram-Universal acquisition; and to shield from distribution companies like Tower, HMV, and Virgin Megastores, that are destroying "the small mom and pop stores—people that love the music and that’s why they have their store," and from the insidious pollution of the tastes of the masses, "with brainwashing and brain-control. These marketing guys who are at the head of all these companies, they’re really the ones that are spoon-feeding everybody shit."[1]
Zorn is inspired by other artists and different musical styles, particularly those working in improvised music. He has a special attraction to underground artists and musical styles that are extremely loud, wild, or creative. Tzadik has established a diverse catalogue reflecting Zorn's range of musical influences and influence. The Tzadik website describes the label as "...dedicated to releasing the best in avant garde and experimental music, presenting a worldwide community of musician-composers who find it difficult or impossible to release their music through conventional channels".[89]
The label's releases are divided into series:
- The Archival Series features Zorn's recordings exclusively, including re-releases of several albums that appeared on other labels, Zorn's film work, and recordings from 1973 onwards;
- The 50th Birthday Celebration Series is 11 live albums recorded in September 2003 at Tonic as part of the month-long concert retrospective of Zorn's work;
- The Composer Series features Zorn's music for "classical" ensembles along with work by many other contemporary composers;
- The Radical Jewish Culture Series features contemporary Jewish musicians;
- The New Japan Series covers Japanese underground music;
- The Film Music Series features soundtracks by other musicians (Zorn's Filmworks recordings are feartured in the Archival Series);
- The Oracle Series promotes women in experimental music;
- The Key Series presents notable avant-garde musicians and projects;
- The Lunatic Fringe Series releases music and musicians operating outside of the broad categories offered by other series;[89] and
- The Spotlight Series promotes new bands and musical projects of young musicians.
Tzadik also releases special edition CDs, DVDs, books and T-shirts. Since 1998 the designs of Tzadik releases have been created by graphic artist Heung-Heung "Chippy" Chin.[90]
Music romance[link]
Zorn released Music for Children in 1998.[91] The album, identified as "Music Romance Volume One" portrayed the broad spectrum of Zorn's compositions. Music for Children opened with a polyrhythmic etude for percussion and celeste, featured three short Naked City compositions, written at the time of Torture Garden, performed by Zorn with the Boston-based band Prelapse, a composition for wind machines and feedback dedicated to Edgard Varèse, a classical chamber piece for violin, percussion and piano, and ended with a music box-styled lullaby. The second "Music Romance" album, Taboo & Exile, was released in 1999 and featured a similar spectrum of broad styles.[92] One of Zorn's most popular albums was the third in the series, The Gift (2001), which surprised many with its relaxed blend of surf, exotica and world music.[93] Zorn released The Dreamers in 2008 which is considered to be a sequel to The Gift although not identified as a volume of "Music Romance". The year 2009 also saw the release of the album O'o, featuring the same style of music and set of players as the 2008 album.
50th birthday celebration[link]
In September 2003 Zorn celebrated his 50th birthday with a month-long series of performances at Tonic in New York, repeating an event he had begun a decade earlier at the Knitting Factory.[94][95][96] He conceptualized the month into several different aspects of his musical output. Zorn's bands performed on the weekends, classical ensembles were featured on Sundays, Zorn performed improvisations with other musicians on Mondays, featured his extended compositions on Tuesdays and a retrospective of game pieces on Wednesdays.[97] Twelve live albums were released on his 50th Birthday Celebration Series which featured performances by the Masada String Trio, Milford Graves & John Zorn, Locus Solus, Electric Masada, Fred Frith & John Zorn, Hemophiliac, Masada, Susie Ibrarra, Wadada Leo Smith & John Zorn, John Zorn solo, Yamataka Eye & John Zorn, Bar Kokhba Sextet and Painkiller.[98]
Recent projects[link]
Zorn was the principal force in establishing The Stone in 2005, an avant-garde performance space in New York's Alphabet City which supports itself solely on donations and the sale of limited edition CDs, giving all door revenues directly to the performers.[99] Zorn holds the title of artistic director and regularly performs 'Improvisation Nights'.[100] On Friday April 13, 2007, Zorn played the final night at Tonic, the Lower East Side venue where he played regularly for the previous decade, which closed due to financial pressures.[101][102][103] On January 10, 2008, Zorn performed with Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson at a special benefit night at The Stone which was also released on The Stone: Issue Three on CD.[104]
On February 4, 2008, Zorn premiered his work for three cellists "777" performed by Fred Sherry, Erik Friedlander, and Michael Nicolas at the Guggenheim Museum. Zorn premiered The Dreamers with members of Electric Masada on February 29, 2008 at St Anne's Warehouse in Brooklyn.[105] On March 27, 2008, Miller Theater at Columbia University in New York City, which has been the venue for several premieres of Zorn's concert works, hosted the first performance of a new composition by John Zorn, "The Prophetic Mysteries of Angels, Witches & Demons".[106][107] Zorn curated the music for the Aleph-Bet Sound Project, a sound installation featuring new music by Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Erik Friedlander, David Greenberger, Chris Brown, Z’EV, Terry Riley, Alvin Curran, Christina Kubisch, Marina Rosenfeld, Raz Mesinai, and Jewlia, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum from June 4, 2008 to January 8, 2009.[108] Zorn's "Shir Ha-Shirim" premiered in February 2008.[109] The piece is inspired by the Song of Songs from the old testament and is performed by an amplified quintet of female singers with female and male narrators performing the "Song of Solomon". Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson read the texts in English for the February performances. The group returned to New York for performances at the Guggenheim on November 23 and 24, at which Ayelet Rose Gottlieb and Jeremy Fogel recited in Hebrew. These performances at the Guggenheim Museum in November 2008 featured choreography for paired dancers from the Khmer Arts Ensemble by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro.[110] The ensemble includes Marc Ribot on guitar, Carol Emanuel on harp, Trevor Dunn bass and the five extraordinary female vocalists. The Daughters of Jerusalem, as they are known for this project are, Lisa Bielawa, Martha Cluver, Abby Fischer, Kathryn Mulvihill and Kirsten Sollek. Photos of February rehearsals. Shir Ha-Shirim was also performed in Milano, Italy on September 24, 2008 and in Paris, France for the Jazz à la Villette event, on Saturday September 5, 2009.
In 2009, American playwright and avant-garde theatre pioneer Richard Foreman directed Astronome: A Night at The Opera based on Zorn's Astronome (2006).[111]
Publications[link]
In 2000 Zorn edited the book Arcana: Musicians on Music featuring interviews, essays, and commentaries by musicians including Anthony Coleman, Peter Garland, David Mahler, Bill Frisell, Gerry Hemingway, George Lewis, Fred Frith, Eyvind Kang, Mike Patton and Elliott Sharp, on the compositional process.[112] Zorn released the second volume of Arcana: Musicians on Music in the summer of 2007. According to the preface by Zorn, "This second installment of what will be a continuing series of books presenting radical, cutting-edge ideas about music is made, like the initial volume, out of necessity."[113] The second volume contains essays by more than 30 musicians including Annie Gosfield, Trey Spruance, Zeena Parkins, Steve Coleman, Marina Rosenfeld, Carla Kihlstedt, David Douglas, Bill Laswell, Trevor Dunn, and Jewlia Eisenberg. In October 2008, a third volume of the Arcana series was released containing essays by Wadada Leo Smith, Frank London, Greg Cohen, Sean Lennon and Jamie Saft.[114] Volume IV was released in September 2009, including essays by Derek Bailey, Nels Cline, Chris Cutler, Paul Dresher, Kenneth Gaburo, Shelley Hirsch, Wayne Horvitz, Vijay Iyer, Gordon Mumma, Matana Roberts, Katherine Supove and Carolyn Yarnell. Volume V has been released on July 2010, subtitled Musicians on Music, Magic & Mysticism.
Awards and critical reception[link]
In 2001 John Zorn received the Jewish Cultural Award in Performing Arts from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.[115] In 2006 Zorn was named a MacArthur Fellow.[116][117] In 2007, he was the recipient of Columbia University's School of the Arts William Schuman Award, an honor given "to recognize the lifetime achievement of an American composer whose works have been widely performed and generally acknowledged to be of lasting significance."[2] In 2011 Zorn was awarded the Magister Artium Gandensis, an honorary degree from the University of Ghent.[118]
Zorn has attracted mixed receptions by critics throughout his career stating that "The press has never done anything but ignore and ridicule and marginalize my music—downtown music, because they don't know what to call it."[119] A 1999 NY Times article by Adam Shatz accused Zorn of "attempt[ing] to recast Jewishness as a defiantly marginalized identity - to claim victim status - [which] has an air of calculation about it that overpowers his music."[120] Several letters to the Editor from critics and musicians appeared in the following weeks in support of Zorn's artistic merit.[121][122][123] In the opinion of Howard Mandel, who has interviewed Zorn numerous times,[124] Zorn has often expressed a reluctance to grant interviews and has requested that journalists not review his performances.[125]
The character of Stephen Colbert from the TV show The Colbert Report mocked the MacArthur Foundation's award of the Genius Grant to Zorn on the September 20, 2006 episode in his segment titled "Who's Not Honoring Me Now". Colbert used a 10-second dissonant excerpt from the 50th Birthday Celebration Series and compared it to his blowing into a saxophone, pleading, "Genius Grant please!"[126] Zorn's comments on the Colbert segment were "It was hilarious!"[83]
Discography[link]
Main article: John Zorn discography
Filmography[link]
- Money (1985)
- Put More Blood Into the Music (New York avant garde music), episode 292 of The South Bank Show, aired Sunday March 12, 1989
- Step Across the Border (1990)
- A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn (2004)
- Masada Live at Tonic 1999 (2004)
- Celestial Subway Lines / Salvaging Noise (2005)
- Sabbath in Paradise (2007)
- Astronome: A Night At The Opera (2010)
Bibliography[link]
- Zorn. J. (editor) (2000) Arcana: Musicians on Music, Hips Road: New York (ISBN 188712327X)
- Zorn. J. (editor) (2007) Arcana II: Musicians on Music, Hips Road: New York (ISBN 0978833767)
- Zorn. J. (editor) (2008) Arcana III: Musicians on Music, Hips Road: New York (ISBN 0978833775)
- Zorn. J. (editor) (2009) Arcana IV: Musicians on Music, Hips Road: New York (ISBN 0978833783)
- Zorn. J. (editor) (2010) Arcana V: Musicians on Music, Magic & Mysticism, Hips Road: New York (ISBN 0978833791)
See also[link]
Notes[link]
- ^ a b c d e f g Milkowski (2000)
- ^ a b c Columbia News (2007) Composer John Zorn Garners William Schuman Award, March 2007
- ^ a b c Service, T. Shuffle and Cut The Guardian, March 7, 2003.
- ^ Watrous, P. John Zorn Takes Over the Town NY Times, February 24, 1989
- ^ Fordham, J. (1993), The Essential Guide to Jazz on CD, Greenwich Editions: London
- ^ liner notes to Nani Nani, (1995) Tzadik: New York
- ^ John Zorn Festival in Israel 2008 website accessed 2 September 2008.
- ^ Kelman, J. Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville Review at All About Jazz, 15 May 2008.
- ^ Rockwell J, Zorn Variations on Themes by Morricone, NY Times, November 2, 1986
- ^ Watrous P, 'Spillane,' a Blend of American Styles, NY Times, May 25, 1988
- ^ Rockwell J, As Important As Anyone In His Generation, " NY Times, February 21, 1988
- ^ Pareles J, There Are 8 Million Stories in John Zorn's Naked City, NY Times, April 8, 1990
- ^ Helland, D Downbeat.com John Zorn Biography
- ^ a b Bourgin, S. M. (ed.),(1996) Contemporary Musicians, Vol. 15: Zorn, John accessed May 26, 2008
- ^ Put More Blood Into the Music (1989)
- ^ Gordon (2008) pp.12-3
- ^ Duckworth, pp.449-50
- ^ Milkowski (1998)
- ^ Bartlett A Zorn of Plenty Seattle Weekly, June 23, 1999
- ^ Zorn, J (1995) liner notes to John Zorn: First Recordings 1973. New York: Tzadik
- ^ Pareles J, Concert: Sounds of Staley And Zorn, NY Times, December 4, 1983
- ^ Troyano E, John Zorn's Theatre of Musical Optics in The Drama Review: TDR, Vol. 23, No. 4, Private Performance Issue December, 1979, pp. 37-44.
- ^ Zorn, J. The Game Pieces in Cox, C. & Warner, D., Eds. (2004) Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, Continuum Press: New York (ISBN 0826416152)
- ^ Kozinn, A John Zorn and 'Cobra' NY Times, September 3, 1989
- ^ Ross, A Music and Plenty of It: 12 Hours' Worth In Fact NY Times March 15, 1993
- ^ Ratliff, B Stretching the Boundaries of the Things Musicians Do NY Times, August 5, 1996
- ^ Duckworth (1999) pp.444-476
- ^ Morricone, E in liner notes to The Big Gundown - 15th Anniversary Edition Tzadik: New York
- ^ a b Watrous, P. John Zorn Makes Radical Turn Chic, NY Times, September 16, 1993.
- ^ Tzadik catalogue
- ^ Tzadik catalogue
- ^ Cook, R. & Morton, B. (1992), The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette, Penguin Books
- ^ Rockwell, J. Zorn & Berne Dowtown NY Times, August 22, 1987
- ^ Hamilton, A. (2007) Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improvisers Art University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor. pp. 6-7.
- ^ a b Milkowski (2009)
- ^ Zorn, J (1992) liner notes to Filmworks 1986-1990 Tzadik: New York
- ^ Rousell, P (2005) John Zorn Discography
- ^ Zorn, J. (1997), liner notes to Filmworks III: 1990-1995 Tzadik: New York.
- ^ liner notes to Filmworks IV: S&M + More (1997) and Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy (1996)
- ^ Zorn, J. (1997), liner notes to Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour Tzadik: New York.
- ^ Internet Movie Database, Port of Last Resort.
- ^ Internet Movie Database Latin Boys Go to Hell.
- ^ Trembling Before G-d website accessed August 1, 2008.
- ^ Zeitgeist Films website accessed August 1, 2008.
- ^ Secret Lives website accessed July 18, 2008.
- ^ CharlesDennis.net Homecoming Homecoming - a film by Charles Dennis accessed July 18, 2008
- ^ PBS website Independent Lens: Saholin Ulysses - Kungfu Monks in America accessed July 18, 2008.
- ^ Indivision Films website accessed July 18, 2008.
- ^ Invitation to A Suicide website accessed August 1, 2008.
- ^ PBS website: Hiding and Seeking - about the film
- ^ Protocols of Zion website accessed August 1, 2008.
- ^ Workingman's Death website accessed August 1, 2008.
- ^ Notes on Marie Menken website accessed August 1, 2008.
- ^ Ray Bandar: A Life with Skulls website accessed August 1, 2008
- ^ The Treatment website accessed August 1, 2008.
- ^ Zorn, J. (1993) liner notes to Zornfest program
- ^ Carla Chiti (1998), John Zorn in Sonora. Itinerari Oltre il Suono: John Zorn. Italy: Materiali Sonori Edizioni Musicali.
- ^ Pareles J. Cut-and-Paste Sounds from John Zorn Group, NY Times, February 27, 1989.
- ^ McCutchan, A. (1999) The Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process pg. 161, Oxford University Press: New York.
- ^ Zorn, J., (1993), liner notes to Radio Avant: Japan.
- ^ Tzadik catalogue
- ^ Goldberg, M. John Zorn Interview, BOMB Magazine, Issue 80, Summer 2002.
- ^ Album credits - Naked City (album) (1990) and Naked City, Live, Vol. 1: Knitting Factory 1989 (2002).
- ^ Pocci S Naked City at [1]
- ^ FAQ for the Zorn Mailing List, September 1997
- ^ Potts, K. Sacred Dub: the music and projects of Bill Laswell website accessed July 16, 2008.
- ^ Tzadik catalogue - Painkiller: Collected works website accessed July 16, 2008
- ^ extrememusic.com Hemophiliac, undated web page
- ^ Walters, J.L. John Zorn: Crowley at the Crossroads The Guardian, June 21, 2006.
- ^ Tzadik catalogue
- ^ Tzadik catalogue
- ^ McCutchen, A. (1999) The Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process Oxford University Press: New York pg 167
- ^ Yurkin, C., Zorn Again!, Montreal Mirror, May 7, 1998.
- ^ Tomassini A Finding, and Savoring, A Muse in 'McHale's Navy' NY Times December 5, 2001
- ^ Smith, S. Music in Review, NY Times, April 4, 2009.
- ^ liner notes to Madness, Love and Mysticism (2001) Tzadik: New York
- ^ Gann (2006) p.232
- ^ Gordon (2008) pp.39-40
- ^ Pareles J Evoking a Terrible Night in 1938, NY Times, December 19, 1992
- ^ Paeles, J. Old and New in a Jewish Festival, NY Times, December 20, 1995.
- ^ Yaffe, D. Learning to Reed, New York Nightlife, April 5, 1999.
- ^ Kaplan, F. John Zorn's Joyful Jazz, Slate, October 3, 2003.
- ^ a b c Pehling, D. KTVU.com Talks To Saxophonist John Zorn, March 10, 2009.
- ^ Ratliff, B. True to '60s Rhythms and Jewish Culture, NY Times, June 11, 1999.
- ^ Ratliff B Barricades to Storm, Whether or Not Any Guards Were on Them, NY Times, March 13, 2007
- ^ Fordham, J. John Zorn, The Guardian, July 22, 2003.
- ^ Ratliff B A Most Prolific Composer Opens His Book of Angels, NY Times, September 12, 2006
- ^ Gilbert, A Music on the Edge San Francisco Chronicle, May 29, 2005
- ^ a b Tzadik website
- ^ Chelsea Art Gallery website
- ^ Tzadik catalogue
- ^ Tzadik catalogue
- ^ Tzadik catalogue
- ^ Pareles J 40 Years of Restless Music NY Times, September 3, 1993
- ^ Price, E & Roussel, P Zornfest pages at WNUR at www.wnur.org
- ^ Ratliff, B. Fluttering Rat-a-tats to Celebrate a Birthday, NY Times, September 9, 2003.
- ^ Zorn, J. (2003) 50th Birthday Celebration programme
- ^ Davis, F. Overcoming Irony, John Zorn Goes for the Heart, Not for the Easy Kill, Village Voice, March 23, 2004
- ^ Ratliff B For Jazz Musicians and Fans, a (Tiny) Room of Their Own, NY Times, April 5, 2005
- ^ Fitzell, S.P. The Stone: John Zorn's Latest Downtown Venture, All About Jazz, April 7, 2005.
- ^ Sisaro B Avant-Garde Music Loses a Lower Manhattan Home, NY Times, March 31, 2007.
- ^ Chinen N Requiem for a Club: Saxophone and Sighs, NY Times, April 16, 2007.
- ^ Romano, T. Dead Again, Village Voice, April 3, 2007.
- ^ Tzadik catalogue
- ^ Chinen, N. Twangy Tones and Vibes in a Fistful of Nostalgia, NY Times, March 3, 2008.
- ^ Shweitzer, V. A New Music Portfolio, Complete with Twigs, Rice & Grunts, NY Times, October 28, 2006.
- ^ Kuzinn, A. Reaching the Final Turn in 3 Years of Bumpy Road, NY Times, March 29, 2008
- ^ Contemporary Jewish Museum website John Zorn Presents the Aleph-Bet Sound Project accessed July 15, 2008.
- ^ Allan, J. Reviews: Live - John Zorn Abron Arts Centre Amplifier Magazine, February 22, 2008.
- ^ Smith, S. An Unlikely Pairing on Common Ground NY Times, November 27, 2008.
- ^ Brantley, B. It’s What Happens When 2 Iconoclasts Get Together, NY Times, February 14, 2009.
- ^ Zorn. J. (editor) Arcana: Musicians on Music, Hips Road: New York (2000) (ISBN 1-887123-27-X)
- ^ Zorn. J. (editor) Arcana II: Musicians on Music, Hips Road: New York (2007) (ISBN 0978833767)
- ^ Tzadik catalogue
- ^ Merkin Concert Hall Composer John Zorn to Present Chimeras at Merkin Concert Hall, press release, May 8, 2002
- ^ Lee, FR This Years MacArthur Awards Cover Many Fields NY Times, September 19, 2006
- ^ 2006 Overview - MacArthur Foundation
- ^ University of Ghent Hogeschool website accessed August 31, 2011
- ^ Mandel (2005)
- ^ Shatz, A. Crossing Music's Borders In Search Of Identity; Downtown, a Reach For Ethnicity NY Times, October 3, 1999.
- ^ Milkowski (1999)
- ^ Blumenfeld, L. John Zorn; Words That Hurt NY Times, October 17, 1999.
- ^ Douglas, D. John Zorn; Ignoring the Music NY Times, October 17, 1999.
- ^ Mandel (1986), (1988) and (1997)
- ^ Mandel (2008)
- ^ "Who's Not Honoring Me Now: MacArthur Grants" Colbert Report, Comedy Central
References[link]
- Duckworth, William (1999) Talking Music, Da Capo Press (ISBN 0-306-80893-5) pp. 444–476
- Gann, Kyle (2006) Music Downtown: Writing from the Village Voice p. 232
- Gordon, Ted (2008) John Zorn: Autonomy and The Avant-Garde.
- Mandel, Howard (1986) Howard Mandel interview John Zorn, EAR Magazine Vol. II no. 2, oct., 1986. LOGOS.
- Mandel, Howard (1988) Ich habe viele kleine Tricks. John Zorn interview. MusikTexte 23, Febr., 1988.
- Mandel, Howard (1997) Guerilla Strategist: John Zorn interviewed by Howard Mandel, Resonance vol. 6 nr. 1, 1997.
- Mandel, Howard (2005) Jazz: Who What Where Why New York Press, September 7, 2005.
- Mandel, Howard (2008) Musicians Dread Words, Jazz Beyond Jazz, March 2, 2008.
- Milkowski, Bill (1998) John Zorn interview in Rockers, Jazzbos & Visionaries New York: Watson-Guptill Publications
- Milkowski, Bill (1999) John Zorn; His Own Scene, NY Times, October 17, 1999
- Milkowski, Bill (2000) John Zorn: One Future, Two Views [2] (interview) in Jazz Times, March 2000, pp. 28–35,118-121 (accessed 24 July 2010)
- Milkowski, Bill (2009) John Zorn: The Working Man in Jazz Times, May 2009 (accessed 24 July 2010)
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| Name | John Zorn |
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| Short description | avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. |
| Date of birth | September 2, 1953 |
| Place of birth | Queens, New York City, USA |
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| David Sanborn | |
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 David Sanborn, Festival de Jazz Riviera Maya 2008 |
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| Background information | |
| Born | (1945-07-30) July 30, 1945 (age 66) Tampa, Florida United States |
| Genres | Jazz, jazz fusion, rock, R&B, pop, funk |
| Occupations | Musician |
| Instruments | Saxophone, Piano |
| Years active | 1959–present |
| Labels | Verve, GRP, Rhino, Elektra, Warner Bros., Reprise |
| Website | Official website |
David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B.[1] He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school.[2] Sanborn has also worked extensively as a session musician, notably on David Bowie's Young Americans (1975).
One of the most commercially successful American saxophonists to earn prominence since the 1980s, Sanborn is described by critic Scott Yannow[3] as "the most influential saxophonist on pop, R&B, and crossover players of the past 20 years." Sanborn is often identified with radio-friendly smooth jazz However, Sanborn has expressed a disinclination for both the genre itself and his association with it.[1]
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Biography[link]
Early years[link]
Sanborn was born in Tampa, Florida, and grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri. He suffered from polio in his youth, and began playing the saxophone on a physician's advice to strengthen his weakened chest muscles and improve his breathing. Alto saxophonist Hank Crawford, at the time a member of Ray Charles' band, was an early and lasting influence on Sanborn.[4] Sanborn performed with blues musicians Albert King and Little Milton at the age of 14, and continued playing blues when he joined Paul Butterfield's band in 1967, after attending the University of Iowa.[4]
Although Sanborn is most associated with smooth jazz, he explored the edges of free jazz in his youth, studying with saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Julius Hemphill. In 1993, he revisited this genre when he appeared on Tim Berne's Diminutive Mysteries, dedicated to Hemphill. Sanborn's album Another Hand also featured leading avant garde musicians.
In his three and-a-half decade career, Sanborn has released 24 albums, won six Grammy awards and has had eight gold albums and one platinum album. He continues to be one of the most highly active musicians of his genre, with 2010 tour dates exceeding 150.
Recordings[link]
He has been a highly regarded session player since the late 1960s, playing with an array of well-known artists, such as James Brown, Bryan Ferry, Michael Stanley, Eric Clapton, Bobby Charles, Cat Stevens, Roger Daltrey, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Jaco Pastorius, the Brecker Brothers, Michael Franks, Kenny Loggins, Casiopea, Players Association, David Bowie, Todd Rundgren, Bruce Springsteen, Little Feat, Tommy Bolin, Bob James, James Taylor, Al Jarreau, Pure Prairie League, Kenny G, George Benson, Joe Beck, Donny Hathaway, Elton John, Gil Evans, Carly Simon, Guru, Linda Ronstadt, Billy Joel, Kenny Garrett, Roger Waters, Steely Dan, Ween, the Eagles, The Grateful Dead, the German group Nena, Japanese pop star Utada Hikaru.[5] and Toto
Sanborn has won numerous awards including Grammy Awards for Voyeur (1981), Double Vision (1986) and the instrumental album Close Up (1988). In television, Sanborn is well known for his sax solo in the theme song for the NBC hit drama L.A. Law. He has also done some film scoring for films such as Lethal Weapon and Scrooged. In 1991 Sanborn recorded Another Hand, which the All Music Guide to Jazz described as a "return by Sanborn to his real, true love: unadorned (or only partly adorned) jazz" that "balanced the scales" against his smooth jazz material.[6] The album, produced by Hal Willner, featured musicians from outside the smooth jazz scene, such as Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette, Bill Frisell, and Marc Ribot. His more recent albums include Closer.
In 1994 Sanborn appeared in A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who, also known as Daltrey Sings Townshend. This was a two-night concert at Carnegie Hall produced by Roger Daltrey of English rock band The Who in celebration of his fiftieth birthday. In 1994 a CD and a VHS video were issued, and in 1998 a DVD was released.
In 1995 he performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True a musical performance of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The performance was originally broadcast on Turner Network Television (TNT), and issued on CD and video in 1996.
Broadcasting activities[link]
Sanborn has performed on both radio and television broadcasts; he has also acted as a host. Since the late 1980s he has been a regular guest member of Paul Shaffer's band on Late Night with David Letterman. From 1988-89, he co-hosted Night Music, a late-night music show on NBC television with Jools Holland. Following producer Hal Willner's eclectic approach, the show positioned Sanborn with many famed musicians, such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Pharoah Sanders, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Lou Reed, Jean-Luc Ponty, Santana, Todd Rundgren, Youssou N'dour, Pere Ubu, Loudon Wainwright III, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and Curtis Mayfield. During the 1980s and 1990s, Sanborn hosted a syndicated radio program, The Jazz Show with David Sanborn.[4] Sanborn has recorded many shows' theme songs as well as several other songs for The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder.
More recent activities[link]
In 2004, Sanborn was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. In 2006, he was featured in Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band's album The Phat Pack on the track "Play That Funky Music", a remake of the Wild Cherry' hit in a big band style. Sanborn often performs at Japan's Blue Note venues in Nagoya, Osaka, and Tokyo. He plays on the song "Your Party" on Ween's 2007 release La Cucaracha. On April 8, 2007, Sanborn sat in with the Allman Brothers Band during their annual run at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.
In 2010, Sanborn toured primarily with a trio featuring jazz organist Joey DeFrancesco and Steve Gadd where they played the combination of blues and jazz found in his latest album. “Only Everything”. In 2011, Sanborn will tour with keyboardist George Duke and bassist Marcus Miller as the group “DMS”.
Discography[link]
Albums[link]
As leader[link]
- Taking Off (1975)
- Beck & Sanborn, with Joe Beck (1975)
- David Sanborn (1976)
- Promise Me the Moon (1977)
- Heart to Heart (1978)
- Hideaway (1979)
- Voyeur (1981)
- As We Speak (1981)
- Backstreet (1982)
- Straight to the Heart (1984)
- Double Vision, with Bob James (1986)
- A Change of Heart (1987)
- Close Up (1988)
- Another Hand (1991)
- Upfront (1992)
- Hearsay (1994)
- The Best of David Sanborn (1994)
- Pearls (1995)
- Love Songs (1995)
- Songs from the Night Before (1996)
- Inside (1999)
- The Essentials (2002)
- Time Again (2003)
- Closer (2005)
- Original Album Classics (5 CD box set of 5 albums reissued in replica LP covers)
- Here and Gone (2008)[7]
- Only Everything (2010)
As sideman[link]
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With George Benson
- Good King Bad (CTI, 1975)
With Hubert Laws
- The Chicago Theme (CTI, 1974)
With Todd Rundgren
- A Wizard, a True Star (1973)
- Initiation (1975)
DVDs[link]
- Legends: Live at Montreux 1997 (Released: 2005)
- The Legends of Jazz: Showcase (Released: 2006)[7]
Filmography[link]
Actor/Host[link]
- The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True (1995)
Cast member in the TV musical - Scrooged (1988)
Played a street musician - Sunday Night (1988)
Was the host of this music show (later known as Michelob Presents Night Music) - Magnum P.I. (1986)
Was guest saxophonist in the episode L.A. - Stelle Sulla Citta (1983)[8]
Himself[link]
- Eric Clapton & Friends in Concert (1999)
- Burt Bacharach: One Amazing Night (1995)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1996)
- Forget Paris (1995)
- Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who (1994)
- Michael Kamen: Concert for Saxophone (1991)
- Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs (1989)
- The 2nd Annual Soul Train Music Awards (1988)
- The 1st Annual Soul Train Music Awards (1987)
- One Trick Pony (1980)
- Late Night with David Letterman / The David Letterman Show (occasionally, 1986— )
- Saturday Night Live (15 March 1980)[8]
Composer[link]
- Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
- Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
- Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
- Psycho III (1986)
- Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
- Stelle Sulla Citta (1983)
- Moment to Moment (1975)[8]
Musician[link]
- Forget Paris (1995)
- Tequila Sunrise (1988)
- Lethal Weapon (1987)[9]
- Psycho III (1986)
- Murphy's Romance (1985)
- Saturday Night Live (1975)[8]
Gear List[link]
- Saxophone
Selmer Mark VI Alto Saxophone
Manufacturer: Selmer
Location: Paris, France
Retail Value (approx): $6,000 (US) - Reeds
Vandoren V16 reeds
Each reed lasts David roughly a week. - Mouthpiece
A modified Dukoff D8 Metal Alto Sax Mouthpiece - Ligature
A Harrison Ligature - Bell Jar
To keep his reeds humidified without over-soaking them, David soaks the reeds in water in a bell jar.[clarification needed] First he soaks them for a couple of hours in the jar, and then empties out most of the water so that the reeds won't get wet, but will still stay humid. He finds this technique extremely valuable.[10]
References[link]
- ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (1996) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (Third ed.). London: Penguin Group. pp. 1148–1149. ISBN 0-14-051368-X.
- ^ "Biography". Official Community of David Sanborn. http://www.davidsanborn.com/biography.html. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
- ^ Yannow, Scott "David Sanborn -- Biography" from Allmusic.com, URL accessed 21 May 2011
- ^ a b c Balfany, Greg (January/February 1989). "David Sanborn". Saxophone Journal 13 (4): pp. 28–31
- ^ "Sessions". Official Community of David Sanborn. http://www.davidsanborn.com/relatedartists/default.html. Retrieved 2008-05-15. [dead link]
- ^ Wynn, Ron (1994). All Music Guide to Jazz. San Francisco: Miller Freeman. p. 567. ISBN 0-87930-308-5
- ^ a b "Discography". Official Community of David Sanborn. http://www.davidsanborn.com/discography.html. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
- ^ a b c d "Filmography". Official Community of David Sanborn. http://www.davidsanborn.com/film.html. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
- ^ "Lethal Weapon (1987) Full cast and crew". IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093409/fullcredits. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
- ^ "Gear List". Official Community of David Sanborn. http://www.davidsanborn.com/gearlist.html. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
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| Marcus Miller | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | William Henry Marcus Miller Jr. |
| Born | (1959-06-14) June 14, 1959 (age 53) Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Genres | Jazz, jazz fusion, rhythm and blues, rock, funk |
| Occupations | Musician, composer, producer |
| Instruments | Bass, double bass, guitar, vocals, saxophone, clarinet, keyboards, recorder |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Associated acts | SMV, Miles Davis |
| Website | www.marcusmiller.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Fender Jazz Bass | |
Marcus Miller (born William Henry Marcus Miller Jr., June 14, 1959, Brooklyn, New York) is an American jazz composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Miller is best known as a bassist, working with trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Herbie Hancock, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, as well as maintaining a prolific solo career. Miller is classically trained as a clarinetist and also plays keyboards, saxophone and guitar.
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Life and career[link]
Early life[link]
Miller was born in 1959 and raised in a musical family that includes his father, William Miller (a church organist and choir director) and jazz pianist Wynton Kelly. By 13, Marcus was proficient on clarinet, piano and bass guitar, and already writing songs. Two years later he was working regularly in New York City, eventually playing bass and writing music for jazz flautist Bobbi Humphrey and keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith. Miller soon became a first call session musician, gracing well over 500 albums, a short list of which includes Michael Jackson, Herbie Hancock, Mariah Carey, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Frank Sinatra, Dr. John, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Grover Washington Jr., Donald Fagen, Bill Withers, Chaka Khan, LL Cool J, Me'shell Ndegé Ocello and Flavio Sala.
Professional career[link]
Miller spent approximately 15 years performing as a sideman or session musician, observing how band leaders operated. During that time he also did a lot of arranging and producing. He was a member of the Saturday Night Live band 1978-1979. He wrote the intro to Aretha Franklin's 'I Wanna Make It Up To You'. He has played bass on over 500 recordings including those of Luther Vandross, Grover Washington Jr., Roberta Flack, Carly Simon, McCoy Tyner, Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol. He won the "Most Valuable Player" award, (awarded by NARAS to recognize studio musicians) three years in a row and was subsequently awarded "player emeritus" status and retired from eligibility. In the nineties, Miller began to make his own records, putting a band together to take advantage of touring opportunities.
Miller's proficiency on his main instrument, the bass guitar, is generally well-regarded. Not only has Miller been involved in the continuing development of the technique known as "slapping", particularly his "thumb" technique, but his fretless bass technique has also served as an inspiration to many, and he has taken the fretless bass into musical contexts and genres previously unexplored. The influences of some of the previous generation of electric bass players, such as Larry Graham, Stanley Clarke, and Jaco Pastorius, are audible in Miller's playing. Early in his career, Miller was accused of being simply imitative of Pastorius, but has since more fully integrated the latter's methodology into his own sound.
Miller has an extensive discography, and tours frequently and widely in Europe and Japan.
Between 1988 and 1990 he appeared in the first season and again toward the end as both the musical director and also as the house band bass player in the Sunday Night Band during the two seasons of the acclaimed music performance program Sunday Night on NBC late-night television.[1]
As a composer, Miller wrote "Tutu" for Miles Davis, a piece that defined Davis's career in the late 1980s, and was the title track of Davis's album Tutu, upon which Miller wrote all the songs with only two exceptions, and one of those was co-written with Davis. He also composed "Chicago Song" for David Sanborn and co-wrote "'Til My Baby Comes Home", "It's Over Now", "For You to Love", and "Power of Love" for Luther Vandross. Miller also wrote "Da Butt", which was featured in Spike Lee's School Daze.
Personal life[link]
Miller has a wife and four children: two daughters and two sons, one of whom, Jon, recently graduated from Columbia University and now works for radio and television host Glenn Beck.
Grammy Awards[link]
Miller has won numerous Grammy Awards as a producer for Miles Davis, Luther Vandross, David Sanborn, Bob James, Chaka Khan and Wayne Shorter. He won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 1992, for Luther Vandross' "Power of Love" and in 2001 he won for Best Contemporary Jazz Album for his fourth solo instrumental album, M2.
Miller currently has his own band. In 1997 he played bass and bass clarinet in a band called Legends, featuring Eric Clapton (guitars and vocals), Joe Sample (piano), David Sanborn (alto sax) and Steve Gadd (drums). It was an 11-date tour of major jazz festivals in Europe.
In addition to his recording and performance career, Miller has established a parallel career as a film score composer. He has written numerous scores for films featuring Eddie Murphy, L.L. Cool J, Chris Rock, Matthew Perry, Samuel L. Jackson and others. He composed the musical score for the Chris Rock-created sit-com, Everybody Hates Chris, now in syndication on Nick-At Nite.[2]
Instruments and gear[link]
He plays a 1977 Fender Jazz Bass that was modified by Roger Sadowsky with the addition of a Bartolini preamp so he could control his sound in the studio. Fender currently produces a Marcus Miller signature Fender Jazz Bass in four- (made in Japan) and five-string (made in U.S) versions.[3]
Discography[link]
Solo period (1982–present)
- 1983: Suddenly
- 1984: Marcus Miller
- 1993: The Sun Don't Lie
- 1995: Tales
- 1998: Live & More
- 2000: Best of '82-'96
- 2001: M² (2002 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album)
- 2002: The Ozell Tapes - Live 2001
- 2005: Silver Rain
- 2007: Free
- 2008: Marcus[4]
- 2008: Thunder (as SMV, with Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten)
- 2010: A Night in Monte Carlo - Live 2009
- 2011: Tutu Revisited - Live 2010
- 2012: Renaissance
Luther Vandross period
- 1983: "Busy Body"
- 1985: "The Night I Fell In Love"
- 1985: "'Til My Baby Comes Home"
- 1985: "It's Over Now"
- 1986: "I Really Didn't Mean It"
- 1986: "Never Too Much"
- 1986: "She Won't Talk To Me"
- 1986: "Give Me the Reason"
- 1987: "Stop to Love"
- 1987: "See Me"
- 1988: "Luther In Love - Megamix"
- 1988: "Any Love"
- 1989: "The Best of Love"
- 1989: "Come Back"
- 1991: "The Rush"
- 1991: "Power of Love / Love Power (Uno Clio & Colin and Carl Remix)"
- 1991: "Power of Love / Love Power"
- 1991: "Power of Love"
- 1993: "Never Let Me Go"
- 1993: "Heaven Knows"
- 1995: "This Is Christmas"
- 1995: "Power of Love / Love Power (The Frankie Knuckles Mixes)"
- 1996: "Your Secret Love"
- 1996: "I Can Make It Better"
- 1998: "I Know"
- 2001: "Luther Vandross"
- 2003: "Dance With My Father"
- 2007: "Love, Luther"
Grover Washington jr period
- 1984: Inside Moves
David Sanborn period (1975–2000)
- 1977: Lovesongs
- 1980: Hideaway
- 1981: Voyeur
- 1981: As We Speak
- 1982: Backstreet
- 1984: Straight to the Heart
- 1987: Change of Heart
- 1988: Close-Up
- 1991: Another Hand
- 1992: Upfront
- 1994: Hearsay
- 1995: Pearls
- 1996: Songs from the Night Before
- 1999: Inside
Miles Davis period (1980–1990)
- 1981: The Man with the Horn
- 1982: We Want Miles
- 1983: Star People
- 1986: Tutu
- 1987: Music From Siesta
- 1989: Amandla
- 2002: The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux
The Jamaica Boys period (1986–1990)
- 1987: The Jamaica Boys
- 1989: The Jamaica Boys II: J. Boys
Film scores
- 1990: "House Party" (featuring Kid & Play)
- 1992: "Boomerang" (featuring Eddie Murphy)
- 1994: "Above the Rim" (featuring Tupac Shakur)
- 1994: "A Low Down Dirty Shame" (featuring Keenan Ivory Wayans)
- 1996: "The Great White Hype" (featuring Samuel L. Jackson)
- 1997: "The Sixth Man" (featuring Marlon Wayans)
- 1999: "An American Love Story"
- 2000: "The Ladies Man" (featuring Tim Meadows)
- 2001: "The Trumpet of the Swan" (featuring Reese Witherspoon)
- 2001: "The Brothers" (featuring Morris Chestnut)
- 2001: "Two Can Play That Game" (featuring Vivaca Fox)
- 2002: "Serving Sara" (featuring Matthew Perry)
- 2003: "Deliver Us from Eva" (featuring L.L. Cool J)
- 2003: "Head of State" (featuring Chris Rock)
- 2004: "Breakin' All the Rules" (featuring Jamie Foxx)
- 2005: "King's Ransom" (featuring Anthony Anderson)
- 2006: "Save the Last Dance 2" (featuring Izabella Miko)
- 2007: "I Think I Love My Wife" (featuring Chris Rock)
- 2007: "This Christmas" (featuring Idris Elba)
- 2008: "Thunder" (featuring Stanley Clark and Victor Wooten)
- 2009: "Good Hair" (featuring Chris Rock as SMV)
- 2009: "Obsessed" (featuring Beyoncé Knowles)
With Dizzy Gillespie
- Closer to the Source (Atlantic, 1984)
References[link]
- ^ Sunday Night episodes #104 (1988), #121 (1989)
- ^ See also interview on ABC Radio National Music Show with Andrew Ford Nov 2010
- ^ "Fender,com". Fender.com. http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0257802321. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
- ^ Levine, Doug (25 March 2008). "Bassist Marcus Miller Surrounds Himself With New Generation of R&B Stars on 'Marcus'". VOA News (Voice of America). http://voanews.com/english/archive/2008-03/2008-03-25-voa63.cfm. Retrieved 3 January 2009. [dead link]
External links[link]
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- HoneySoul interview
- Jazzitalia interview
- Jazz USA interview
- The Dude Pit interview
- NPR interview
- Podcast featuring GRP Records and Marcus Miller
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| Name | Miller, Marcus |
| Alternative names | Miller, William Henry Marcus, Jr. |
| Short description | Jazz musician |
| Date of birth | June 14, 1959 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn, New York |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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For the New Zealand rugby league player, see Mike Patton (rugby league).
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Michael Allan Patton |
| Born | (1968-01-27) January 27, 1968 (age 44) Eureka, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Various |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, actor, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, various electronic instrumentation/programming, sampler, drums, percussions, bass, guitar, keyboards |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Labels | Ipecac, Tzadik, Warner Bros. Records, Slash |
| Associated acts | Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom, Lovage, John Zorn, Kaada/Patton, Dillinger Escape Plan, Hemophiliac, Maldoror, General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners, Rahzel, Zu, |
Michael Allan "Mike" Patton (born January 27, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the experimental rock/alternative metal band Faith No More. He was also the founder and lead singer of Mr. Bungle, and has played with Tomahawk, Fantômas, Lovage, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Peeping Tom.
Known for his eclectic influences and experimental projects, Patton has earned critical praise for his diverse vocalization. He has many producer or co-producer credits with artists such as John Zorn, Sepultura, Melvins, Melt-Banana, and Kool Keith. He co-founded Ipecac Recordings with Greg Werckman in 1999, and has run the label since.
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Biography[link]
Early years[link]
Patton was born and raised in Eureka, California, where he formed Mr. Bungle, with Trey Spruance and Trevor Dunn, in 1984. During the late '80s Mr Bungle recorded the cassette-only recordings, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny, Goddammit I Love America, Bowel of Chiley and OU818, featuring tracks that would later be included on their first Warner Brothers album.
Joining Faith No More[link]
Patton joined Faith No More in January 1989 replacing Chuck Mosley, who then played with Cement.
Faith No More's The Real Thing was released later that year. The album reached the top ten on the US charts, thanks largely to MTV's heavy rotation of the "Epic" music video, (which featured Patton in a Mr. Bungle T-shirt[1]).
In the United States, Faith No More released three more studio albums; (Angel Dust, King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime, and Album of the Year) Faith No More officially disbanded in 1998.[citation needed]
When interviewed about his lyrical content with Faith No More, Patton responded, "I think that too many people think too much about my lyrics. I am more a person who works more with the sound of a word than with its meaning. Often I just choose the words because of the rhythm, not because of the meaning".[2]
Mr. Bungle and beyond[link]
During his time in Faith No More, Patton continued to work with Mr. Bungle. His success in mainstream rock and metal ultimately helped secure Mr. Bungle a record deal with Warner Bros.[3] The band released a self-titled album (produced by John Zorn) in 1991, and the experimental Disco Volante[4] in 1995. Their final album, California, was released in 1999.
Patton's other projects included two solo albums on the Composer Series of John Zorn's Tzadik label, (Adult Themes for Voice in 1996 and Pranzo Oltranzista in 1997). He is a member of Hemophiliac, in which he performs vocal effects along with John Zorn on saxophone and Ikue Mori on laptop electronics. This group is billed as "improvisational music from the outer reaches of madness".[citation needed] He has also guested on Painkiller and Naked City recordings. He has also on other Tzadik releases with Zorn and others.
In 1998, Patton formed the avant-garde metal supergroup Fantômas with Buzz Osbourne (of The Melvins), Trevor Dunn (of Mr. Bungle), and Dave Lombardo of Slayer. They have released four studio albums. The band is still together as of July 2011.
There have been several projects over the years featuring Patton that have not been officially released, although some live bootlegs do circulate. These projects include House of Discipline (with Bob Ostertag and Otomo Yoshihide), Moonraker (with Agata Ichirou of Melt-Banana, Buckethead and DJ Eddie Def), Christian Fennesz and Mike Patton, and Patton & Rahzel. Patton contributed vocals to the Team Sleep song Kool-Aid Party, but the song did not make it onto the final album.[citation needed]
In 2004, Patton worked with Björk and the beat boxer Rahzel on her album, Medúlla.[5]
In 2005, Patton signed on to compose the soundtrack for the independent movie Pinion, marking his debut scoring an American feature-length film. However, this had been held up in production and may be on the shelf permanently.[6] His other film work includes portraying two major characters in the Steve Balderson film Firecracker. He has also expressed his desire to compose for film director David Lynch.
In February 2006, Mike Patton performed an operatic piece, composed by Eyvind Kang, at Teatro di Modena in Italy. Patton sang alongside vocalist Jessika Kinney, and was accompanied by the Modern Brass Ensemble, Bologna Chamber Choir, and Alberto Capelli and Walter Zanetti on electric and acoustic guitars. Patton remarked that it was extremely challenging to project the voice without a microphone.[7]
Patton's Peeping Tom album was released on May 30, 2006 on his own Ipecac label. The set was pieced together by swapping song files through the mail with collaborators like Norah Jones, Kool Keith and Massive Attack, Odd Nosdam, Jel, Doseone, Bebel Gilberto, Kid Koala, and Dub Trio.[citation needed]
"I don't listen to the radio, but if I did, this is what I'd want it to sound like", Patton said of the project. "This is my version of pop music. In a way, this is an exercise for me: taking all these things I've learned over the years and putting them into a pop format."—Mike Patton
In May 2007 he performed with an orchestra a few concerts in Italy, by the name of Mondo Cane, singing Italian oldies from the 50s and the 60s.
Mike also provided the voices of the monsters in the 2007 film I Am Legend starring Will Smith.
He is regarded as very hard-working. Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum remarked about Patton "caffeine is the only drug he does", in reference to the Faith No More song "Caffeine" from the album Angel Dust, which Patton wrote while in the middle of a sleep-deprivation experiment.[citation needed] He also worked on the Derrick Scocchera short film "A Perfect Place" for the score/soundtrack, which is longer than the film itself.[citation needed]
In December 2008 along with Melvins, Patton co-curated an edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties Nightmare Before Christmas festival.[8] Patton chose half of the lineup and performed the album The Director's Cut in its entirety with Fantômas. Patton also appeared as Rikki Kixx in the Adult Swim show Metalocalypse in a special 2 part episode on August 24.[9]
In 2009 Patton created the soundtrack to the movie Crank: High Voltage. He also performed vocals on the track "Lost Weekend" by The Qemists.
On May 4, 2010 Mondo Cane, where Patton worked live with a 30-piece orchestra, was released by Ipecac Recordings. The album was co-produced and arranged by Daniele Luppi.[10]
"Recorded at a series of European performances including an outdoor concert in a Northern Italian piazza, the CD features traditional Italian pop songs as well as a rendition of Ennio Morricone's 'Deep Down'."[11]
Video games[link]
Patton is known to be an avid video game player.[12] In 2007, he provided the voice of the eponymous force in the video game The Darkness,[13] working alongside Kirk Acevedo, Lauren Ambrose and Dwight Schultz. Patton reprised the role in The Darkness II in 2012.[14]
He also had a minor role in Valve Corporation's 2007 release Portal as the voice of the Anger Sphere in the final confrontation with the insane supercomputer, GLaDOS. He has another role in the Valve title Left 4 Dead, voicing the majority of the infected zombies.[15] He also voiced Nathan "Rad" Spencer, the main character in Capcom's 2009 video game Bionic Commando, a sequel of their classic NES title.
Faith No More reunion[link]
In February 2009, Faith No More announced that they were reforming for a tour and possibly new material, first as a footnote on a blurb for Patton's score for Crank: High Voltage and later as an official announcement on fnm.com.[16] Their first gig on the road again was at the Brixton O2 Academy in London, where 1990's Live at the Brixton Academy was recorded, on June 10, 2009. They have played as one of three headliners at The Download Festival 2009, in Castle Donington, which was Faith No More's first time at the festival. At the festival they played "Chinese Arithmetic" while Patton humorously sang the lyrics to "Poker Face" using a beat-box effect embellishing Gaga's vocal style. Bassist Billy Gould has also stated that an American tour is "not out of the question". In June 2009 Faith No More announced that they will be headlining the NME stage at Reading & Leeds festival.[17] On July 4, Faith No More performed a concert together at the Open'er festival in Kosakowo Airport near Gdynia, Poland.
Faith No More also played the large Roskilde Festival near the city of Roskilde, Denmark.[18] Faith No More also performed in Portugal in Optimus Alive'10, where Mike Patton sang one song, "Evidence", completely in Portuguese. They had already played the same song completely in Italian on June 14, 2009, at the Rock in Idro Festival in Milan. 12 August 2009 was the date for FNM's first Turkish live appreance in Istanbul. On August 14, Faith no more played at the Spirit of Burgas Festival in Burgas, Bulgaria. Faith No More headlined the Australian Soundwave Festival in 2010. On the 27th of August 2009, Faith No More played in the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland and were supported by local band Adebisi Shank.
On September 1, 2009 Faith No More played at Israel Trade Fairs & Convention Center in Tel Aviv, Israel, supported by Monotonix and Dinosaur Jr. August 2009 Faith No More headlined the Radio 1/NME Stage at both Leeds & Reading Festival where they played the theme tune to popular UK Soap Eastenders as part of their setlist. On December 5, 2010, they played alongside Primus in Santiago de Chile,[19] which was the day after their performance at the Teleton Chile.[20] In 2011 they also performed at the Chilean Rock Concert Maquinaria[21] on November 12 and 13, as well as at the SWU Festival on November 15.[22]
Faith No More were to top the bill on Sunday July 8th 2012 of the Sonisphere Festival UK festival at the iconic Knebworth House venue, but On March 29, the festival was cancelled. [23]
Reaction to fame[link]
Patton has garnered critical praise and has been made a heavy metal icon; however, Patton's reaction to this fame has been unconventional. He has acted irreverently towards the music industry, and expressed his distaste for the infamous lifestyles of rock stars. In a 1995 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, he stated: "It's hard to see as much as you'd like to with our schedule on the road, but it's harder to do coke and fuck whores every night. Now that's a full time job."[24] His attitude towards popular music is also evident in his songwriting, as Allmusic critic Cammila Albertson writes: "When Patton sings 'Roll it up and smoke it again/Bottoms up and drink it again/ Fix it up and shoot it again/ I can't believe I did it again,' (Mojo by Peeping Tom) he is keenly aware of the way it sounds for such an avant-garde composer as himself to recite perfect rock & roll cliches. His lyrics mock the self-important coolness of the music industry and self parody his own place in it."[25] His contempt for the over-the-top antics of figures in popular music is often cited as the main reason that Patton has always been so guarded about his privacy and personal life.[24] Mike Patton has stated that he enjoyed his time in Faith No More:
"They were good years. It was a decade of my life. It was lots of ups and lots of downs, but ultimately that's where I learned my chops and learned the craft and the business."
— Mike Patton, Artisan News Service
Personal life[link]
Patton married Italian artist Titi Zuccatosta in 1994. They separated in 2001. During an appearance on the radio show, Loveline (Listen), Patton said that it was a case of two people wanting different things and hinted that his excessive work habits may have been a factor. "It's very hard. It's a daily struggle", he commented in regards to the rigors of juggling a busy music career and a marriage. "It had to happen... Even though we knew each other really well when we got married, it doesn't get easier." He later added, "We're trying this. See what happens. There's still hope." Patton used to own a home in Bologna, Italy (which he sold around the time of the break-up), and speaks fluent Italian.[26] He was interviewed by music journalist Lucas H. Gordon and the answers were given by Patton in Italian.[citation needed]
Patton's right hand is permanently numb from an on-stage incident during his third concert with Faith No More, where he accidentally cut himself on a broken bottle and severed the tendons and nerves in his hand. He can use his hand, but he has no feeling in it (despite his doctor telling him the opposite would happen).[27]
Style and influences[link]
Patton's vocals touch on crooning, falsetto, screaming, opera, death growls, rapping, mouth music, beatboxing, and scatting, among other techniques. Critic Greg Prato of Allmusic writes, "Patton could very well be one of the most versatile and talented singers in rock music";[28] colleague Blake Butler called him "a complete and utter musical visionary and a mind-blowing and standard-warping genius."[29]
Discography[link]
Main article: Mike Patton discography
Selected filmography[link]
- 1990 - Live at the Brixton Academy, London: You Fat Bastards by Faith No More (VHS)
- 1993 - Video Macumba - Short film compiled by Mike Patton containing abstract and extreme footage
- 1998 - Who Cares a Lot: Greatest Videos by Faith No More (VHS)
- 2002 - A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn
- 2005 - Firecracker - Frank/David
- 2007 - Kaada/Patton Live - Live performance DVD
- 2007 - I Am Legend - Creature Vocals (voice) (credited as Michael A. Patton)[2]
- 2008 - A Perfect Place - Short film soundtrack by Patton (Released with film as CD/DVD special edition)
- 2008 - Live From London 2006 - Live DVD release of a performance by the Fantomas Melvins Big Band in London on May 1, 2006
- 2008 - Metalocalypse - Patton voices the character of reformed rocker Rikki Kixx on episodes "Snakes N Barrels II" part one and part two. This special 2 part, half hour presentation aired on The Cartoon Network August 24, 2008.
- 2009 - Crank: High Voltage - Film Score
- 2010 - Bunraku - Narrator
Video games[link]
- 2007 - The Darkness - Voice of The Darkness (Starbreeze Studios)
- 2007 - Portal - Voice of the Anger Sphere (Valve Software)
- 2008 - Left 4 Dead - Infected voices (Valve Software)
- 2009 - Bionic Commando - Voice of Nathan Spencer - the Bionic Commando (Capcom)
- 2009 - Left 4 Dead 2 - Infected voices (Valve Software)
- 2012 - The Darkness 2 - Voice of The Darkness (Digital Extremes)
References[link]
- ^ Cee, Gary (November 30, 1990). "Faith No More: Inside the insatiable Mike Patton". Circus Magazine (#369): pages 62–64. http://negele.org/db/index.php3?band=2&year=1990&month=11&day=30&id=1531. Retrieved 2008-09-26.
- ^ Samborska, Agatha, ed. "Faith No More Frequently Answered Questions". http://old.fnm.com/faq/#30. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4973
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r224254
- ^ http://unit.bjork.com/specials/albums/medulla/
- ^ Mike Patton, February, 2008 | Synthesis Radio
- ^ Caca Volante
- ^ All Tomorrow's Parties - Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Melvins and Mike Patton
- ^ Mike Patton at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "Mike Patton - Mondo Cane", Discogs.com, Retrieved 8-4-2011.
- ^ "MIKE PATTON's MONDO CANE To Release Debut In May". http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.Net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=136605.
- ^ Ipecac Recordings - About Us
- ^ The Darkness Preview - Shacknews - PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads
- ^ Citizen, Jessica (2011-02-15). "Mike Patton will return in The Darkness II". GamePron. http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/02/15/mike-patton-will-return-in-the-darkness-ii/. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
- ^ Micah Seff. "Mike Patton is The Darkness". IGN. http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/794/794825p1.html.
- ^ Faith No More News
- ^ http://twitter.com/MRGOULD
- ^ http://www.roskilde-festival.dk/historie/2009/bands/
- ^ http://www.emol.com/noticias/magazine/2010/12/06/451142/faith-no-more-tuvo-su-emotivo-concierto-de-despedida-en-chile.html
- ^ http://www.emol.com/noticias/magazine/2010/12/04/450995/faith-no-more-bautiza-a-don-francisco-como-don-corleone-en-cierre-de-la-teleton.html
- ^ http://www.lanacion.cl/faith-no-more-vuelve-a-chile-y-se-suma-al-maquinaria-2011/noticias/2011-07-27/103853.html
- ^ http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/swu/faith-no-more-encerra-swu-2011-com-hits-e-palavroes/n1597369100832.html
- ^ "Sonisphere festival cancelled". sonisphere. http://sonisphere.co.uk/news/sonisphere-knebworth-is-cancelled/. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
- ^ a b Snyder, Michael (March 3, 1995). "KEEPING THE FAITH / Bay Area band revamps and goes back on the road". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/03/05/PK5951.DTL.
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r824964
- ^ Video on Youtube where Mike Patton uses his Italian
- ^ Epstein, Daniel Robert (29 May 2006). "Mike Patton Interview". Suicide Girls. http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/Mike+Patton/. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
- ^ Prato, Greg. "Mike Patton Biography". All Music. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p112839. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ^ [1]
- Zorn, John, ed. (2000). Arcana: Musicians on Music. New York: Granary Books/Hips Road. ISBN 1-887123-27-X.
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| Henry Grimes | |
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 Henry Grimes at HotHouse in Chicago on March 12, 2005; photo by Seth Tisue |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Henry Grimes |
| Born | (1935-11-03) November 3, 1935 (age 76) |
| Origin | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Genres | Jazz, avant-garde, spoken word |
| Instruments | Double bass, violin |
| Years active | mid-1950s to 1969, 2003–present |
| Labels | Atlantic, Ayler Records, Blue Note, Columbia, ESP-Disk, ILK Music, Impulse!, JazzNewYork Productions, Pi Recordings, Porter Records, Prestige, Riverside, Verve |
| Website | [1] |
| Notable instruments | |
| acoustic bass, violin, spoken word | |
Henry Grimes (born November 3, 1935, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a jazz double bassist, violinist, and poet.
After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music scene by 1970.[1] Grimes was often presumed dead, but he was rediscovered in 2002 and returned to performing.[1]
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Biography[link]
Early life & performing career[link]
As a child, Grimes took up the violin, then began playing tuba, English horn, percussion, and finally the double bass at age 13 or 14, while he was in high school. Grimes furthered his musical studies at Juilliard, and established a reputation as a versatile bassist in the mid 1950s. He recorded or performed with saxophonists Gerry Mulligan and Sonny Rollins, pianist Thelonious Monk, singer Anita O'Day, clarinetist Benny Goodman and many others.[1] At a time when bassist Charles Mingus was experimenting with a second bass player in his band, Grimes was the person he selected for the job.[1] One of his earliest appearances on film is captured in the Bert Stern documentary on the Newport Jazz Festival, Jazz on a Summer's Day.
Gradually growing interested in free jazz, Grimes performed with most of the music's important names, including pianist Cecil Taylor, trumpeter Don Cherry, saxophonists Steve Lacy, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, and Albert Ayler. He released one album, The Call as a trio leader for the ESP-Disk record label in 1965. The album features Perry Robinson on clarinet and Tom Price on drums and is considered to be of a great quality representative of his career.
Disappearance & resurrection[link]
In the late 1960s, Grimes career came to a halt after his move to California. It was commonly assumed Grimes had died; he was listed as such in several jazz reference works. Then Marshall Marrotte, a social worker and jazz fan, set out to discover Grimes's fate once and for all. In 2003, he found Grimes alive but nearly destitute, without a bass to play, renting a tiny apartment in Los Angeles, California, writing poetry and doing odd jobs to support himself. He had fallen out of touch with the jazz world and was unaware Albert Ayler had died, but was eager to perform again.[2]
Word spread of Grimes's 'resurrection', and some musicians and fans offered their help. Bassist William Parker donated a bass (nicknamed "Olive Oil", for its distinctive greenish color) and with David Gage's help had it shipped from New York to Los Angeles, and others assisted with travel expenses and arranging performances. Grimes's return was featured in The New York Times and on National Public Radio. A documentary film is planned, as is a biography.
Grimes has made up for lost time: In 2003 he performed at over two dozen music festivals or other appearances. Grimes received a returning hero's welcome at the free jazz-oriented Vision Festival, and is teaching lessons and workshops for bassists. His November 2003 appearance on trumpeter Dennis González' Nile River Suite was the bassist's second recording in more than 35 years.[3] In 2004 he recorded as leader with David Murray and Hamid Drake; and in 2005 with guitarist Marc Ribot, who also wrote an introduction to Grimes' first book, Signs Along the Road, published in March 2007 by Buddy's Knife Jazzedition in Cologne, Germany, a collection of Grimes' poetry, in which he presents his selection of entries from thousands of pages of his writings. Also in 2007, Henry Grimes recorded with drummer Rashied Ali, with whom he has played a half-dozen duo concerts and a trio with Marilyn Crispell, and in 2008 with Paul Dunmall and Andrew Cyrille, a co-leader trio called the Profound Sound Trio, among others.
In many venues around New York and on tour in the U.S., Canada, and 23 countries in Europe and the Far East, working mostly as a leader since 2003, Henry Grimes has been making music with Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Ted Curson, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Dave Douglas, Andrew Lamb, Joe Lovano, William Parker, Cecil Taylor (with whom Henry resumed playing in October, 2006 after forty years), John Tchicai, and others. In the past few years, Henry has also held a number of residencies and offered workshops and master classes on major campuses (including Berklee College of Music, Hamilton College, New England Conservatory, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Gloucestershire at Cheltenham, Humber College, and several more). He has released several new recordings, made his professional debut on a second instrument (the violin) at the age of 70, and has been creating illustrations to accompany his new recordings and publications. He has received many honors in recent years, including four Meet the Composer grants and a grant from the Acadia Foundation. He can be heard on more than 80 recordings on various labels, including Atlantic, Ayler Records, Blue Note, Columbia, ESP-Disk, ILK Music, Impulse!, JazzNewYork Productions, Pi Recordings, Porter Records, Prestige, Riverside, and Verve. Henry Grimes is now a resident of New York City and has a busy schedule of performances, clinics, and international tours.
In 2011 the Chelsea Art Museum recreated a performance of Black Zero, a happening staged by Aldo Tambellini at Group Center on sevreal occasions between 1963 and 1965. Henry Grimes played Ben Morea and accompanying Sound recordings of Calvin Hernton's poetry.[4]
Discography[link]
As leader[link]
- 1965: The Call (ESP-Disk)
- 2005: Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival (Ayler Records)
- 2008: Going to the Ritual (with Rashied Ali, Porter Records)
- 2008: Profound Sound Trio: Opus de Life (with Paul Dunmall and Andrew Cyrille, Porter Records)
- 2009: Solo (ILK Music)
- 2010: Spirits Aloft (with Rashied Ali, Porter Records)
As sideman[link]
with Shafi Hadi
- Debut Rarities, vol. 3 (recorded in 1957, NYC, by the Shafi Hadi Sextet;[5] released as Original Jazz Classics CD OJCCD-1821-2 in 1993)
with Lee Konitz
- Tranquility (Verve)
with Gerry Mulligan
- The Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker (Pacific Jazz)
- The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (World Pacific)
- Annie Ross Sings a Song with Mulligan (World Pacific)
With Sonny Rollins
- Brass & Trio (1958)
- Sonny Meets Hawk! (1963)
with Lennie Tristano
- Continuity (Jazz Records)
with Billy Taylor
with Rolf Kühn
- Be My Guest (Panorama)
with Mose Allison
- I Love the Life I Live (Columbia)
with Carmen Leggio
- The Carmen Leggio Group (Jazz Unlimited)
with Cecil Taylor
- Into the Hot (Impulse! – issued under Gil Evans's name)
- Conquistador! (Blue Note)
- Unit Structures (Blue Note)
with Shirley Scott
- Shirley Scott Plays Horace Silver (Prestige)
with Roy Burns
- Skin Burns (Roulette)
with Roy Haynes
- Out of the Afternoon (Impulse!)
with McCoy Tyner
- Reaching Fourth (Impulse!)
with Albert Ayler
- Live Greenwich Village Sessions (Impulse!)
with Archie Shepp
- Further Fire Music (Impulse!)
- On This Night (Impulse!)
with Don Cherry
- Complete Communion (Blue Note)
- Symphony for Improvisers (Blue Note)
- Where Is Brooklyn? (Blue Note)
with David Murray and Hamid Drake
- Henry Grimes Trio Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival (Ayler Records)
with Marc Ribot
with Andrew Cyrille and Paul Dunmall - Profound Sound Trio
- Opus De Life (Porter Records)
References[link]
- ^ a b c d Weiss, Ken (September 2004). "Henry Grimes interview, July 12, 2003". Cadence Magazine (Redwood, NY: Cadnor Ltd.) 30 (9): 5–10. ISSN 01626973.
- ^ Neil Strauss. Silent 30 Years, A Jazzman Resurfaces; Left New York in '68, Plays Again Tonight. New York Times, 26 May 2003. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04EFD81231F935A15756C0A9659C8B63 Accessed 26 May 2008
- ^ Hreha, Scott (2004-07-16). "NY Midnight Suite + Nile River Suite (review)". One Final Note. Scott Hreha. http://www.onefinalnote.com/reviews/g/gonzalez-dennis/ny-midnight-suite.asp. Retrieved December 30, 2006.
- ^ Back In The New York Groove! accessed 10th December 2011
- ^ arwulf, arwulf. "Debut Rarities, Vol. 3". http://www.allmusic.com/album/debut-rarities-vol-3-r184887/review. Retrieved 2010-11-29. "Discographical indexes list the band under the name of the Shafi Hadi Sextet."
Bibliography[link]
- Feather, Leonard G. (1966). The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties, Horizon Press, p. 146, ISBN 0-517-20465-7.
- Carr, Ian, Digby Fairweather & Brian Priestley. (1995). Jazz: The Rough Guide, 1st ed., Rough Guides, Ltd., p. 253, ISBN 1-85828-137-7.
External links[link]
- Official Site
- Henry Grimes Discography at www.JazzDiscography.com
- New York Times feature
- NPR Feature
- Henry Grimes Poems "signs along the road" at www.buddysknife.de
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