Queen of All Ears

Artist: The Lounge Lizards
Label: Strange & Beautiful
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 655217001526
EAN: 0655217001526
ASIN: B000007NPT

Release Date: 1998-06-16

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Tracks:

The First And Royal Queen
The Birds Near Her House
Scary Children
She Drove Me Mad
Queen Of All Ears
Monsters Over Bangkok
Three Crowns Of Wood
John Zorn's S&M Circus
Yak
Queen Reprise

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Customer Reviews:

Freakin' Awesome!.......2004-06-24

Wholly unlike most nu-age jazz, Queen Of All Ears is very sinuous, twisting, evolving music. Its sly modulating rhythms and occasional wails are accompanied by African-sounding percussion and most importantly, a sense of humor (just listen to "Yak"). These guys don't take jazz too seriously. More like Medeski Martin and Wood than Michael Brecker. Great for late-night highway driving home from the bar - less successful as cocktail party background music. Give it a try.

the lizards and the queen.......2002-08-05

This is a very good disc, very well orchestrated and very transporting into the realm of John Lurie's world, especially with tracks like scary children, the birds near her house, monsters over Bangkok, Zorn's S&M circus, that I consider hold the representative elements of the cd.
The first time I heard it its originality of sound was amazing, ranging all over the spectrum of musical influences transforming in Lurie's mind.

Most Valuable for Giving Michael Blake a Musical Vocabulary.......2002-05-02

Not that it isn't pretty astonishing in its own right, but the really neat thing about this is where Michael Blake has taken this music in his solo career.

Blake, with several albums to his credit under his own name, obviously got his basic approach and aesthetic from John Lurie. It's all here--the noirish, African-cum-Downtown sensibility, the insistence on the priority of atmosphere over vertuosity, the wild postmodern eclecticism; Blake simple takes it to the next level. With this recording and Voice of Chunk, John Lurie pioneered a provocative and productive approach for modern Jazz which musicians like Ben Allison and Michael Blake have brought to full fruition. Minus one star for the gratuitous cover art and commentary.

Best work of John Lurie.......2000-06-02

This album and Marvin Pontiac album are best works of John Lurie!

Jazzy Joyful Jagged.......1999-04-02

This is the way jazz should sound. If you like this, you'll love Lurie's Voice of Chunk. The compositions are fascinating and Lurie knows how to swing. Listen to the soundtracks that he did for Get Shorty and Excess Baggage.

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