RE: John Zorn -Reply

Nick Roberts (NRoberts@macromedia.com)
Wed, 18 Oct 1995 10:15:42 -0700

I was checking out the Ornette album yesterday, and was wondering
about the sticker on the outside that promised it as "street level"
music. The first thought that crossed my mind was some of the stuff
coming out from Steve Coleman & Five Elements -- very time-signature
oriented, whiffs of hip hop and freestyle inside. But then again,
hasn't Ornette always been "street level?"

On an aside: Has anyone checked out the latest disk from Wayne
Shorter and his "Electronic Ensemble"? It got torn a new sphincter
in the New York Times last weekend, but I have not had a chance to
check it out yet.

__Nick Roberts

>>> Jorge Sousa Pinto <jsp@di.uminho.pt> - 10/18/95 7:12 AM >>>

As to John Zorn being categorized as jazz: his roots are very deeply
in jazz, and Ornette is a notorious influence. Zorn's recent Masada
albums (4 volumes) feature a line-up very similar to the classic
Ornette quartet, and his sax-playing is, IMHO, better than ever.

By the way, check out Ornette and Prime Time's last album, Tone
dialling. Might have something to surprise everybody, not very far
from acid-jazz...

-Jorge