RE: [acid-jazz] FW: Cancelled - JULY 1 The Cinematic Orchestra

From: Jason Witherspoon (arzachel_at_speakeasy.org)
Date: 2003-06-23 20:37:17

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    At 10:34 AM -0700 6/23/03, Jon Bonanno wrote:
    >I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but I think we need to keep the
    >quality of Cinematic Orchestra's music in perspective. As live jazz
    >musicians their talents are suspect (also see: Koop). For those of you
    >that enjoyed Cinematic so much in concert I have to words for you:
    >Pharoah Sanders.
    >
    >I was seriously bored at the Cinematic's recent LA show and am thinking
    >of avoiding musicians who make pleasant cross genre albums, but pass
    >themselves off as jazz musicians in concert. I thought for sure that
    >Cinematic would bring something different to their live performance (and
    >unless you call a few turntable provided beats something different);
    >they didn't.
    >
    >In a strange way, I find Zero 7 more compelling live than either
    >Cinematic or Koop.
    >
    >Jon
    >
    >p.s. You can blame the tone of this on the fact that it's Monday morning
    >- yuck!

    Just speaking studio for a second, I was a big fan of the first
    album, but since then-- stuff sounds a *lot* like lite jazz/sonic
    wallpaper. The "Theme de Yoyo" cover-- easily the highlight of the
    new album-- is a nice thought, but pretty darn pointless next to the
    original.

    Though I did enjoy Koop live. Go figure.

    Now if Chris Bowden would tour w/a live band-- that'd be something!

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