From Echophoria Sent Wed, Jul 7th 1999, 18:29
From Echophoria Sent Wed, Jul 7th 1999, 18:29
In a message dated 7/7/99 11:01:53 AM EDT, xxxxxx.xxxxx@xxxx.xxx writes: > While I can't think of many off the top of my head, there are plenty of > experimental works that mix free jazz and electronics. Stuff with Ikue > Mori and the Tzadik label, maybe Orchestra 33.3 (haven't heard it for a > while so I might be wrong) the Orchester 33 1/3 disc is great! but it's not really free jazz. more of a=20 salmagundi jazz - a little improv, a little hard bop, a little surf guitar, = a=20 little Peter Brotzmann, a little vocal weirdness, a little of whatever you=20 want to call Ralph Carney, etc - all roughly charted in advance on Christian=20 Fennesz and Christoff Kurzmann's PowerBooks then handed off to a massive=20 ensemble for open interpretation. amazing. i've never heard anything else=20 like it. =20 free jazz and electronics? what about the Evan Parker/Lawrence Casserley dis= c=20 on Touch (Solar Wind), the two Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble titles o= n=20 ECM, and the Evan Parker Live at Les Instants Chavires on Leo? and his=20 "interpretation" on Disinformation's AL JABR is totally unreal. not to get too Parker-crazy. but, hey - the guy's amazing.=20 some of the Simon Fell titles on Bruce's Fingers fit the=20 free-jazz/electronics bill. though Fell seems to have more in common with=20 Anthony Braxton. and, since he's calling many of his compositions, er,=20 Compositions... maybe you could drag in the whole "is it?/isn't it?" argumen= t=20 that jazzbos level against Braxton. still, incredible stuff. =20 so where does free jazz end and improv begin? if we're going to walk into that puddle, you might as well check out all the=20 G=FCnter M=FCller + (fill in the blank) titles on For 4 Ears. start with=20 M=FCller/Marclay and either M=FCller/O'Rourke. you won't be dissapointed. =20 mr. e. now on: jimmy giuffre 3: thesis (ecm)