Plays Standards

Plays Standards Artist: Ground Zero
Label: Diw Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 634164042028
EAN: 0634164042028
ASIN: B00004X0KE


Release Date: 2000-09-26

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Listmania:

  1. I enjoy this
  2. Captain Stupid Head's List Of Totally Insane Japanese Music
  3. Great interesting arrangements
  4. Great Japanese jazz
  5. Japanese music for the strange
  6. Asian/American Jazz
  7. Jazz Punks will Love
  8. Energy Jazz Classics

Tracks:

  1. El Derecho De Vivir En Paz/Shinoshin 3/4
  2. Ultra Q
  3. Those Were The Days
  4. Folhas Secas
  5. Washington Post March/Japan Dissolution
  6. Akashia No Ame Ga Yamu Toki
  7. Bones
  8. Where Is The Police?/The Bath Of Surprise
  9. Miagetegoran, Yoru No Hoshi Wo
  10. Yume No Hansyu
  11. Die Pappel Vom Karlsplatz
  12. A Better Tomorrow/I Say A Little Prayer (Roland Kirk Version)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Yowie!.......2000-11-11

This is GREAT! (I'm spinning it as I type -- just bought it today). How could I have not HEARD these guys before? Anyone interested in a playful jazz cacophony with abundant quirky samples and a pinch of rock aesthetic (big, full, whoomping sound, occasional really catchy, almost surflike-hooks on the sax) will LOVE THIS MUSIC. I can think of no one to fairly compare it to; it could easily sit on the shelf with Zorn's first, "bestselling" Naked City release, but it has a very independent identity, isn't just an attempt to "do" Zorn. The tracks include Sousa's "Washington Post March," which Yoshihide says (in the English/Japanese liner notes) he used to think was just music to torture junior highschool kids to during sporting events, but which he learned to love when he heard Skeleton Crew (Fred Frith and the late Tom Cora) play it; a Massacre cut ("Bones"), speaking of Frith; a Victor Jara song; Gene Raskin's "Those Were the Days;" Mengelberg and Beresford's "Where is the Police" -- as well as a few Japanese songs that I don't know. Not exactly "My Funny Valentine" and "On Green Dolphin Street," if the word "standards" scares you. Kikuchi's sax is big and Ayleresque, Nasuno's bass rhythms are big and bouncy and pull you through the sheer density of the noisy bits; there are TWO drummers; and Yoshihide's samples are brilliant. Fair amount of guitar around, too, and a shamisen, and a djembe, and I-don't-know-what-all-else. Buy it, soon.

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  2. Nights of Ballads and Blues ~ McCoy Tyner
  3. Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods ~ Dizzy Gillespie with Machito
  4. Sketches of Standards ~ Arne Domn%C3%A9rus & Rune Gustaf
  5. Jazz at the Pawnshop, Vol. 2 ~ Various Artists
  6. Jazz at the Pawnshop, Vol. 3 ~ Various Artists
  7. Live Is Life ~ Various Artists
  8. Nico Morelli ~ Nico Morelli
  9. Elders Suite ~ Mark Isaacs
  10. On Reflection ~ Mark Isaacs

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