Yankees

Yankees Artist: Derek Bailey , George Lewis , and John Zorn
Label: Celluloid
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 803415111527
EAN: 0803415111527
ASIN: B000087D83


Release Date: 1983-01-01

Yankees


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Tracks:

  1. City City City
  2. Legend of Enos Slaughter
  3. Who's on First?
  4. On Golden Pond
  5. Warning Track

Album Description

Recorded in New York in 1982, this album is described as 'played as heard' on the original sleeve, Yankees is a collection of five highly regarded and totally unique collective improvisations on various themes of sport and culture by three leading figures from the avant garde jazz scenes in England and America. Remastered. Charly. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars More Bailey than Zorn..........2005-07-28

John Zorn is a musician whose force of personality is stamped clearly on anything he touches-- any project Zorn becomes involved in is more a part of his idiom than anyone else.

But there's some early recordings where this isn't the case, where Zorn was still developing his vocabulary and his sounds, where he was still the "game piece" guy rather than anything else. "Yankees", recorded in 1982, is just one of those pieces-- still playng an assortmetn of reeds and game calls and before any of his classic albums were completed, its little wonder that Zorn's personality is somewhat subsumed beneath the elder Derek Bailey.

This trio (Bailey on guitars, Zorn on reeds, George Lewis on trombone) exists largely inside Bailey idiom-- the scratching, scraping, and meandering and vast use of space that Bailey's music has at its best is apparent here, and the three play improvisations in these regards. At its best, its evokes imagery more powerful than one would believe possible-- "City City City" FEELS like a walk down a city block, but at its worst, its feels like nothing ("On Golden Pond").

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  3. Bethlehem
  4. Collection ~ Jethro Tull
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  6. Floating Tangibility ~ Primitive Instinct
  7. Delicate Autobahn Under Construction ~ Sunroof!
  8. The Fat Lady Sings ~ Fat Lady Sings
  9. Crave ~ Cyclefly
  10. Looking Through ~ Bent Backed Tulips

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