Electric Masada - 50th Birthday Celebration 4
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Artist: Electric MasadaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-05-25
Music Label: Tzadik
Soundtracks:
- Tekufah
- Idalah-Abal
- Hadasha
- Hath-Arob
- Yatzar
- Lilin
- Kisofim
Free Music Notes for 50th Birthday Celebration 4
Free Music Review: Why I love avant-garde jazz
Hit: 5 Stars
First of all, where else are you going to find two drummers and a percussionist as part of the band--and not only that, two of the world's greatest drummers (Kenny Wollesen and Joey Baron) and probably the world's greatest living percussionist (Cyro Baptista)? Nowhere, that's where. But they're on board here, laying out some of the smartest, grooviest, heaviest beats around.
Second, where else are you going to find an aesthetic that can effortlessly incorporate white noise, wah-wah guitar, world-beat percussion, soul-jazz keyboards, honkin' sax, laptop electronics, the blooze--and make it all sound perfectly natural? Again, nowhere else.
Third, and this is perhaps most important, where else are you going to find deliciously glorious moments, moments of the starkest beauty, emerging from what almost seems like primal chaos? Again, nowhere else. But it happens here. Regularly.
Fourth, where else are you going to get a group of musicians with such res, such substance, such undeniable accomplishment and idiosyncratic genius to record live with such spectacular results? Again, nowhere else.
Look. I'm known for my over-the-top reviews (although I've received many e-mails thanking me for my forthrightness in praising jazz artists). I freely admit that sometimes I get carried away with a way-happening vibe and lose objectivity. But that's not happening here. See, I'm not a Zorn groupie. I don't automatically sign on to anything he does. He's got to EARN if from me. And he does here.
I daresay that this represents perhaps the finest group of jazz musicians ever assembled. Quite a claim, I know. But it's true. Let's just run down each one: Leader Zorn (composer, alto sax, label owner), a man who has an impeccable downtown pedigree (although not one I'm always on board with); Marc Ribot (guitar), a man who has slowly built a reputation as one who can effectively play in nearly any variety of contexts (everything from solo acoustic to avant-classical to freak-out jazz); Jamie Saft (keyboards), owner of the sickest organ sound around, as well as the hippest; Ikue Mori (laptop electronics), founding member of that too-hip outfit, Mephista; Trevor Dunn (bass), a name not known to me (my bad), who exhibits a spectacular command of his instrument; Joey Baron (drums), a fellow who has played in a staggering variety of contexts including holding down the drum chair in John Abercrombie's latest band; Kenny Wollesen (drums), another simply monster player with impeccable downtown as well as straight ahead credentials, and Cyro Baptista (percussion), leader on one of the greatest world jazz albums ever recorded, Vira Loucos.
Together, these artists conceptualize a soundscape of such outrageous and beautiful proportions that it must be heard to be believed. That they do it live is all the more praiseworthy.
Simply too good to be true. Admittedly, not for the faint of heart, but it strikes me that the adventurous listener could greatly widen his or her listening experience by carefully attending to what's going down here.
Highest recommendation.
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