Another interesting example is Brooklyn Funk Essentials playing with a Turkish folk band (that actually consists of Turkish and Romanian gypsies) Laco Tayfa on the album "In The Buzz-bag". Well, i think everyone knows it.
And the guy who played with dj Krush is a very well-known japanese jazzman Toshinori Kondo. Their project "Ki-oku" is a must-have.
Peace,
Ilya
-----Original Message-----
From: kiveson@coombs.anu.edu.au (Kurt Iveson)
To: acid-jazz@UCSD.EDU
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:36:34 +1000
Subject: collaborations....
> hi y'all...
>
> ... reading recent threads about jazz/blue note/new jazz/nu beats etc etc
> got me wondering:
>
> Instead of one artist trying to master everything (jazz, improvisation, new
> technologies etc etc), how many people have tried collaboration as a way
> forward? I've heard some nice collaborations between 'jazz artists' and
> 'beats artists' (I'm only asking peeps to accept these categories for the
> purpose of conversationsss). Sometimes these collaborations seem to avoid
> the pitfalls involved in jazz artists trying to 'do beats' (and sounding
> like they're just cashing in) or electronic artists trying to 'do jazz'
> (and not having the musicianship to pull it off). For example, 4 Hero
> sound much better with Chris Bowden (to my ears) ... they get beyond using
> dull-ish patterns of 'jazzy sounding' chords. They apparently tried to get
> Alice Coltrane involved in the Two Pages project, which would have been
> very interesting! I also like the things that The Angel has done with
> Jacky Terrasson on piano (on that blue note remix project and the jaz klash
> lp). The DJ Krush thing with the trumpet player (Toshi someone...?) was
> kinda nice....
>
> So, anyone got any other examples of established artists collaborating
> across genres with interesting results?
>
> peace,
> kboi
>
>
> by the way, for those wondering about different 'jazz' things coming out at
> the moment ... it's not all blue note re-issues!! :-) One group that is
> using more traditional jazz instrumentation (double bass, vibes, horns,
> real drums, no electronics, etc) and doing some great stuff at the moment
> is the Dave Holland quintet. Check out their _Prime Directive_ on ECM (I
> notice it's got some play recently on Jazzadelica) ... this is a fricken
> great record!!
>
>
>
>
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