From: owner-zorn-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (Zorn List Digest) To: zorn-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: Zorn List Digest V3 #270 Reply-To: zorn-list Sender: owner-zorn-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-zorn-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk Zorn List Digest Tuesday, February 6 2001 Volume 03 : Number 270 In this issue: - the gift SKLUPS: Andrew D'Angelo and Jaime Fennelly iannis xenakis (1926-2001) Soundtrack to Pi Xenakis Bela Fleck (no zorn) Re: Bela Fleck (no zorn) JJ Johnson (RIP) Re: AMM US tour-April [none] Re: JJ Johnson (RIP) Re: JJ Johnson (RIP) Xenakis radio tribute Amsterdaam Re: Amsterdaam Amsterdam Re: JJ Johnson (RIP) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 00:50:46 From: "doron galili" Subject: the gift




hello!

can anyone tell anything about the coming soon "the gift" on tzadik? is it new music or just a new release, or a collection of stuff like "taboo & exile"? it should be interesting, anyway.

doron (hebrew speakers will understand my interest...) 


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- - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 02:02:57 EST From: JBFinley@aol.com Subject: SKLUPS: Andrew D'Angelo and Jaime Fennelly - --part1_ac.107f2a5b.27ae58a1_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, I heard that recently some of you were wondering what Andrew D'Angelo is up to. Well, my name is Jaime Fennelly, and I play bass with Andrew. Andrew and I have been playing together for almost a year together now in various projects, including D'Angelo's SQUAWNK and the newest of our collaborations, SKLUPS. Sklups, is a duo project involving Andrew (bass clarinet, alto saxophone and live electronic sound processing) and me (double-bass and electronics). We'll be playing around NY very soon (DMG, Knit, Pete's Candy Store, so on so on) and just recorded an album, which we are trying to get released. I know there are a few record label people on this list (hint hint). Anyway, just thought I'd throw the word out and let some people know that Andrew has not fallen off the face of the earth, even though he has tried. Everything is very cool. - -Jaime - --part1_ac.107f2a5b.27ae58a1_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all,
I heard that recently some of you were wondering what Andrew D'Angelo is up
to.  Well, my name is Jaime Fennelly, and I play bass with Andrew.  Andrew
and I have been playing together for almost a year together now in various
projects, including D'Angelo's SQUAWNK and the newest of our collaborations,
SKLUPS.  Sklups, is a duo project involving Andrew (bass clarinet, alto
saxophone and live electronic sound processing) and me (double-bass and
electronics).  We'll be playing around NY very soon (DMG, Knit, Pete's Candy
Store, so on so on) and just recorded an album, which we are trying to get
released.  I know there are a few record label people on this list (hint
hint).  
Anyway, just thought I'd throw the word out and let some people know that
Andrew has not fallen off the face of the earth, even though he has tried.  
Everything is very cool.
-Jaime - --part1_ac.107f2a5b.27ae58a1_boundary-- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 11:36:22 EST From: JonAbbey2@aol.com Subject: iannis xenakis (1926-2001) one of the greats has left us... - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ----------------- Musical Pioneer Iannis Xenakis Dies at Age of 78 PARIS (Reuters) - Romanian-born French composer, architect and mathematician Iannis Xenakis, who invented a new genre of music composed with the aid of computers, died on Sunday aged 78. "France loses one of its most brilliant artists today," French President Jacques Chirac said in a statement of condolence. Xenakis, born in Romania to a wealthy family of Greek origin, moved to Greece in 1932 and subsequently fought with the Greek resistance during World War Two, losing an eye in battle. Expelled by Greece in 1947 because of his political beliefs, Xenakis moved to Paris where he closely collaborated with modernist architect Le Corbusier for the next 12 years. Parallel to this, he began studying composition at the Paris Conservatory under illustrious composers including Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud. Xenakis developed a new composing technique using computers and based on the mathematical probability of the recurrence of notes and rhymes. This yielded some of his breakthrough works, Metastasis in 1955 and Achorripsis in 1958. "By breaking free from the constraints of the classical norm, by taking the path of random music and by using the inputs of science, he contributed to the definition of a new area of freedom for musical art," Chirac said. Xenakis became a naturalized French citizen in 1965 and the following year set up the School of Mathematical and Automatic Music. He leaves behind a wife and a daughter. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ----------------- Jon www.erstwhilerecords.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 15:09:26 -0500 From: "&c." Subject: Soundtrack to Pi I had the CD in my hand once at a record store. I listened to it, but didn't buy it. Now I can't find it. I checked Amazon, CDNow, even Gemm. None of them have it. Does any one know where I can find this album? I hope it isn't out of print. Zach - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 22:46:54 +0100 (CET) From: Oger Subject: Xenakis Iannis Xenakis is dead on sunday 3d february in Paris. He was 78 years old. As most of you know, he was a very important composer ans he used computers for his music. He worked with Varese in the 50's. (Many talented people on this list would be able to explain all that better than me). There are many records. A short selection (on french labels) : "Chamber music" with quatuor Arditti (Label Montaigne) And I recommend : "Persepolis" (recorded in 1971 and recently released on an independent french label : Fractal http://www.fractal-records.com available through Forced Exposure). Jacques Oger - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:44:11 -0500 From: "Me" Subject: Bela Fleck (no zorn) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C08F0C.C157A520 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Just a quick and happy little email for you all!!! I saw Bela Fleck and the Flecktones in concert last night (orlando, FL @ = house of blues) and they were FABULOUS. It wasn't my first time seeing = them, but probably the best show I have seen from them....3 Fleckfull = hours of jammin' tunes. Don't miss them on this tour when they play = anywhere near your town. That is all. Have a wonderful day! Dave P.S. Is anyone else enjoying the BLUE MARBLE as much as I am? - ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C08F0C.C157A520 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Just a quick and happy little email for = you=20 all!!!
 
I saw Bela Fleck and the Flecktones in = concert last=20 night (orlando, FL @ house of blues) and they were FABULOUS.   = It=20 wasn't my first time seeing them, but probably the best show I have seen = from=20 them....3 Fleckfull hours of jammin' tunes.  Don't miss them on = this tour=20 when they play anywhere near your town.   That is=20 all.   Have a wonderful day!
 
Dave
 
P.S.  Is anyone else enjoying the = BLUE MARBLE=20 as much as I am?
- ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C08F0C.C157A520-- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 21:16:03 -0800 (PST) From: David Royko Subject: Re: Bela Fleck (no zorn) Nice to see a positive mention of Bela here. He is an exceptional musician, even if I don't always share his taste for the company he sometimes keeps. Dave Royko - --- Me wrote: > Just a quick and happy little email for you all!!! > > I saw Bela Fleck and the Flecktones in concert last > night (orlando, FL @ house of blues) and they were > FABULOUS. It wasn't my first time seeing them, but > probably the best show I have seen from them....3 > Fleckfull hours of jammin' tunes. Don't miss them > on this tour when they play anywhere near your town. > That is all. Have a wonderful day! > > Dave > > P.S. Is anyone else enjoying the BLUE MARBLE as > much as I am? > ===== Dave Royko's Self-Promotion Department: My book, "Voices of Children of Divorce," is in paperback at Amazon.com (and elsewhere): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312254695 Fun Department: Interested in trading live jazz or bluegrass-related CD-Rs? E-mail me. http://www.geocities.com/davidroyko/mypage.html __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:07:45 -0800 From: "s~Z" Subject: JJ Johnson (RIP) So strange that recently we had been wondering if a trombonist had died, and I'm sorry to report that, according to an email sent to us here at pfMENTUM, trombonist JJ Johnson died yesterday. - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:34:12 -0500 From: "Caleb T. Deupree" Subject: Re: AMM US tour-April At 03:41 AM 1/23/01 EST, JonAbbey2@aol.com wrote: >no more info on the Chicago shows yet, sorry. > >13th April - Chicago >14th April - Chicago >15th April - Chicago I see in the new Cadence that the Empty Bottle festival, including Brotzmann ('and a remarkable variety of European imports'), has moved to the following weekend (April 19-21), so Chicago is definitely looking like a place to be in mid-April. Any further word on AMM? Please keep the list posted as you find out more info. - -- Caleb Deupree cdeupree@erinet.com How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? - -- Satchel Paige - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:18:03 -0600 From: Herb Levy Subject: [none] Folks who read this list should be interested in knowing that this week's Mappings presents several hours of music by composer/performer Anthony Braxton. Works range from solos for alto saxophone and piano to pieces for large ensembles. The show went online Monday night about 10 pm PST (-0700 GMT) and will be available at for a week. Hope to see y'all there. Bests, Herb - -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Forth Wort, TX 76147 817 377-2983 herb@eskimo.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 00:46:34 -0500 From: Steve Smith Subject: Re: JJ Johnson (RIP) s~Z wrote: > So strange that recently we had been wondering > if a trombonist had died, and I'm sorry to report that, > according to an email sent to us here at pfMENTUM, > trombonist JJ Johnson died yesterday. A tragic end to a heroic life. RIP. We lost Britt Woodman recently too. Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:28:06 EST From: Nvinokur@aol.com Subject: Re: JJ Johnson (RIP) Modern Jazz Architect J.J. Johnson Commits Suicide Feb 5, 2001, 3:30 pm PT J.J. Johnson J.J. Johnson, the most influential trombonist in jazz history, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Indianapolis on Sunday (Feb. 4). Johnson, who was 77, had been suffering from prostate cancer and other irreversible health problems. Johnson's professional career stretched from the swing era, through the bebop revolution, and into the jazz-classical crossover movement known as the Third Stream. Equally wide-ranging and significant were Johnson's musical associations, a who's who of modern jazz that included Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, Clifford Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Benny Carter, Stan Getz, and many others. "It was profound, the way J.J. played, it was profound," says trombonist Steve Turre. "Just like the way Coltrane played, it went to the deepest source. Things like that, you can't really define them with words." With an astonishingly clean, sharp tone, Johnson, essentially single-handedly, brought the trombone into the technically-demanding bebop arena, and erased popular notions of the instrument as a playful, even clownish novelty. "J.J. did for the trombone what Charlie Parker did for the saxophone," continues Turre. "And all of us that are playing today wouldn't be playing the way we're playing if it wasn't for what he did. And not only, of course, is he the master of the trombone -- the definitive master of this century -- but, as a composer and arranger, he is in the top shelf as well." James Louis Johnson was born in Indianapolis, Jan. 22, 1924. He learned to play piano at age 11, and picked up the trombone at 14. With only his experience from the Crispus Attucks High School band under his belt, Johnson soon turned professional, and in 1942 joined Snookum Russell's "territory" swing orchestra. A several-year stint with Carter followed, then two years in the Basie band, and assorted gigs with Gillespie, Parker, Illinois Jacquet, Woody Herman, and Oscar Pettiford. Johnson was part of the expanded Miles Davis ensemble that appeared on epochal Davis album The Birth of the Cool. After an early-'50s hiatus (where he worked inspecting blueprints at a Sperry factory near New York), Johnson joined up with fellow trombonist Kai Winding in 1954 to form one of the most appealing acts in post-bop jazz, Jay and Kai. After he split with Winding, Johnson became better known as a composer. Johnson wrote the blue-hued jazz standard "Lament," but also immersed himself in more ambitious compositions. Among Johnson's best-known Third Stream projects is his "Poem for Brass," which he recorded under the aegis of classical composer-conductor Gunther Schuller, for the 1956 album Music for Brass. After leading various groups through the 1960s, and recording for the Columbia, Blue Note, Impulse!, RCA, and A&M labels, Johnson moved to Los Angeles, where his jazz activities were combined with composing music for film and television. Johnson's scores and themes were heard in the films Shaft, Across 110th St., and Cleopatra Jones, as well as TV shows The Mod Squad, The Six Million Dollar Man, That Girl, and Starsky and Hutch. After making relatively few albums in the '70s and '80s, Johnson returned to recording with two live sets on Antilles Records. (He returned to his native Indianapolis at around this time as well.) Shortly thereafter, however, Johnson's wife, Vivian, suffered a stroke, and Johnson reduced his musical activities in order to take care of her. Vivian Johnson died in 1991 and J.J. Johnson returned to recording in 1993. Johnson recorded a series of critically hailed albums for Verve in the '90s, but played his last concert in Nov. 1996, at New Jersey's William Patterson College. He officially retired in 1997. "Before I knew him as a man, I loved him for his music," says Steve Turre. "Once I knew him as a man, I loved him as a human being, because he was such a wonderful, warm person, and so respectful of all people and a real king in every sense of the word. He was royalty." Johnson is survived by his second wife, Carolyn Johnson; his sons William and Kevin Johnson; his sister, Rosemary Belcher; his granddaughter, Kenya Johnson; stepdaughter, Mikita Sanders; and step-granddaughter, Mytiya Sanders. A wake is planned 11:00-1:00 PM Saturday (Feb. 10) in Indianapolis at Witherspoon Presbyterian Church, 5136 N. Michigan Road, Indianapolis. The funeral will follow. - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:17:00 -0500 From: David Beardsley Subject: Xenakis radio tribute IANNIS XENAKIS MEMORIAL BROADCAST Wednesday, 2/7/1, 9:00am - 9:30pm EST WKCR also broadcasts live on the net: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/indexb.html - -- * D a v i d B e a r d s l e y * 49/32 R a d i o "all microtonal, all the time" * http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm * http://mp3.com/davidbeardsley - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:35:59 -0500 From: Bob Burnett Subject: Amsterdaam I am interested in finding out about clubs and performances in Amsterdaam--most specifically during the Feb 25-28 window. Reply offlist to: Bob@gvimail.com ______________________________________________________________ Bob Burnett GVI 1775 K St. NW Suite 220 Washington, DC 20006 202-293-4488 www.g-v-i.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:52:11 EST From: DvdBelkin@aol.com Subject: Re: Amsterdaam In a message dated 2/6/01 9:34:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, Bob@gvimail.com writes: > I am interested in finding out about clubs and performances in > Amsterdaam--most specifically during the Feb 25-28 window. > > Reply offlist to: Bob@gvimail.com Courvoisier-Leandra-Ibarra trio appearing at Bim Huis, but not til March 23. David - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:51:10 +0100 From: "dekater" Subject: Amsterdam You could check a.o. www.bimhuis.nl/ Jan Luyben - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:55:47 -0800 From: "s~Z" Subject: Re: JJ Johnson (RIP) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/06/arts/06JOHN.html?pagewanted=all February 6, 2001 J. J. Johnson, Jazz Trombonist, Dies at 77 By BEN RATLIFF . J. Johnson, the most influential trombonist in postwar jazz, died on Sunday at his home in Indianapolis. He was 77. The Marion County Sheriff's Department reported the death as a suicide. Mr. Johnson translated the fast, linear style of bebop to the trombone in the late 1940's. "He was the definitive trombonist of the bebop generation," said the saxophonist Jimmy Heath, who played with him in the early 1950's and remained a close friend. "He didn't use the trombone as it was usually played, with the slide being the important part; he could speak the language of bebop with such clarity and precision. And everybody wanted to play trombone like that afterward." Mr. Johnson, born James Louis Johnson, started his music studies on the piano. He began listening to jazz in his early teenage years and switched to trombone in high school. In 1941, instead of going to college, he left Indianapolis to travel with the midwestern bands led by Snookum Russell and Clarence Love. Most of his influences, he told the writer Ira Gitler in "The Masters of Bebop: A Listener's Guide" (Da Capo Press), were not trombonists but trumpeters and saxophonists like Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. In transferring bebop to the trombone, he used a clean, dry tone and short notes. He was often wrongly assumed to be playing the valve trombone, which allows easier articulation than the slide trombone. He did acknowledge the influence of Fred Beckett, a trombonist who played with Harlan Leonard and Lionel Hampton in the 1930's and 40's. Leonard, Mr. Johnson once explained, "was the first trombonist I ever heard play in a manner other than the usual sliding, slurring, lip-trilling or gutbucket style." Returning to Indianapolis for a time, he was hired by Benny Carter in 1942 and spent three years in Carter's big band. In 1945 he joined the Count Basie Orchestra for a short period before becoming a bandleader in his own right. For the next nine years Mr. Johnson balanced his bandleading career with jobs as a sideman, playing with Parker, Gillespie, Illinois Jacquet, Woody Herman, Miles Davis and others. But the work wasn't enough to support a family, so Mr. Johnson, ever curious about electronic equipment, took a two-year job with the Sperry Gyroscope Company as a blueprint inspector. In 1954 the Savoy label decided to record him and the trombonist Kai Winding in a double-trombone front line, a format that proved to be a hit. Jay & Kai, their band, allowed Mr. Johnson to quit his day job and was one of jazz's most popular acts until it disbanded in 1956. Mr. Johnson was an admirer of Hindemith, Stravinsky and Ravel, and after his part in the famous "Birth of the Cool" nonet recordings of 1949 with Davis and Gil Evans, he soon got involved in the new large- ensemble jazz as a composer. His first large-scale work was the four- part "Poem for Brass," included on Columbia's "Music for Brass" album of 1956, a sort of recorded manifesto of the Third Stream movement, conducted by Gunther Schuller. He wrote two pieces commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1959: "El Camino Real" and "Sketch for Trombone and Orchestra." And Gillespie, after hearing "Poem for Brass," asked Mr. Johnson to write him a whole album's worth of music in a similar style. The result was "Perceptions," a 1961 35- minute suite including six trumpets, four French horns and two harps. From 1967 to 1976, Mr. Johnson barely recorded, devoting his energy to composing. In 1967, through the help of the film composer Elmer Bernstein, he got a job as staff composer and conductor for M.B.A. Music in New York, a company that provided music for television commercials. He moved to Los Angeles in 1970, writing and orchestrating music for films like "Barefoot in the Park," "Scarface," "Trouble Man" and "Sea of Love." Despite his prolific career as a composer, Mr. Johnson's skill as a trombonist did not dull, even into his 60's and 70's. He was a firm believer in practicing every day, and his strength is fully evident in "Quintergy" and "Standards," albums recorded live at the Village Vanguard in 1988. In the 1990's, under contract with the Verve label, Mr. Johnson created some ambitious recordings, including "Tangence," a collaboration with the arranger and film composer Robert Farnon; "The Brass Orchestra," which presented music ranging from bebop to selections from "Perceptions"; and "Heroes," an innovative straight-ahead jazz sextet album. Mr. Johnson returned to Indianapolis with his first wife, Vivian, in 1987 and finally retired from public performance in 1997, refusing to play when he wasn't in top form. He had survived prostate cancer and spent much of his spare time in his home studio, mastering the new hard-drive technology for composing and recording. He is survived by his second wife, Carolyn; two sons, Kevin and William, both of Indianapolis; a stepdaughter, Mikita Sanders, of Indianapolis; a granddaughter; a stepgranddaughter; and a sister, Rosemary Belcher of Denver. Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company - - ------------------------------ End of Zorn List Digest V3 #270 ******************************* To unsubscribe from zorn-list-digest, send an email to "majordomo@lists.xmission.com" with "unsubscribe zorn-list-digest" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. 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