Re: collaborations....

From: Ilya Rasskazov (syamisen@mail.ru)
Date: Fri May 12 2000 - 15:53:36 MET DST

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    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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