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artist: Bradfield.Centazzo.Chadbourne.Cora.Kondo.Zorn
title: USA Concerts East
date: 2004
label: Dunya
genre: Avantgarde
rls. date: Feb/2004
tracks: 09
bitrate: 192kbps
size: 68,1 MB
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Musicians
polly bradfield
andrea centazzo
eugene chadbourne
tom corra
toshinori kondo
ladonna smith
davey williams
jack wright
john zorn
The Cd contains tracks originally released in the LP Usa
Concerts issued right after the first American tour of Centazzo
in 1978 and three new tracks: one recorded in New York, at Zoo
Place with Kondo e Chadbourne; a second in Woodstock in duo
withTom Corra in 1980 and the third one in Bolgna (Italy) in
1985 with the Philadelphia sax player Jack Wright.
It was an homogeneous musical view the one that Centazzo found
on the arrival in New York in 1978, rich of collaboration
between musicians coming from different experiences but all
sharing the same interest for the improvisation.
CENTAZZO writes in the linear notes of the CD: ½ It seems to me
that during those years there was a definable new wave sweeping
across the East coast music scene, united by a spirit of
radicalism and a desire to seek out new sounds, a frenzy of
exploration that marked a departure from the Afro-American
influences which had dominated the 70sÆ Free Jazz movement. In
New York, concerts were happening in the most unlikely venues
from the punk shrine that was CBGBs to the multimedia space of
the Zoo up to avant-garde sanctuaries the likes of The
Environment or The Kitchen. Meanwhile in the South the new
music flag was being kept aloft by a group of artists working
out of Birmingham, Alabama, who busied themselves organising
concerts and recording sessions and trading riffs with their
more fortunate New York cousins. This East coast axis continued
to flourish for several years before fading out into different
local scenes somewhere around the mid 80s. This disc is
therefore a kind of testimony to that golden age of new music,
the way it was and was not to be again╗.
The recordings presents Centazzo in many different settings:
from the Sextet with Polly Bradfield, Eugene Chadbourne, Tom
Corra, Toshinori Kondo, John Zorn (the other recordings from
the same session has been released on Environment for Sextet -
rdc 5026), to Trios with Chadbourne and Kondo or LaDonna Smith
and Davey Williams, and Duos with Chadbourne, Corra, Wright,
Kondo, Williams and Smith.
The general atmosphere is of improvised music with European
influences: very large freedom, total improvisation, amount of
compositional sketches reduced to the minimum. Those years have
been very seminal, deeply influencing the generation of
musicians that has made the new jazz and improvised music in
USA.
With the time the rough language of improvised music will merge
with other sounds starting a very creative season of music
beyond borders. Let's think of John Zorn who mixes Ornette
Coleman's compositions and James Bond's film themes, Klezmer
and grind metal; or Eugene Chadbourne whose love for country
and rockabilly pops out in any of his concerts and recordings;
or Toshinori Kondo at home with jazz heroes as Wayne Shorter
but also with Jungle masters as DJ Krush and Coldcut.
This CD, and more in general the entire Ictus catalogue, is an
important memory of the origins of this generation and of a
unique creative season.
If you like this CD, please tracks it down and purchase it.
Parts of the proceeds of this CD will be donated in favour
of the victims of the Bosnian War.
1(A-1). Sextet Improvisation
Toshinori Kondo : Trumpet
Eugene Chadbourne : Guitars
John Zorn : Reeds
Polly Bradfield : Violin
Tom Cora : Cello
Andrea Centazzo : Percussion
Recorded live in concert at Wkcr Radio, N.Y. nov. 7
1978
2(A-2). Duet Imoprovisation #1
Eugene Chadbourne : Guitars
Andrea Centazzo : Percussion
Recorded live in concert at Wkcr Radio, N.Y. nov. 7
1978
A-3. Duet Improvisation #2 (Not included on re-issued CD)
John Zorn : Reeds
Andrea Centazzo : Percussion
Recorded live in concert at Wkcr Radio, N.Y. nov. 7
1978
A-4. Duet Improvisation #3 (Not included on re-issued CD)
Alex Cline : Percussion
Andrea Centazzo : Percussion
Recorded live in concert at Century City Playhouse, Los
Angeles dec. 3 1978
3. Clangs (Re-issued CD only)
Andrea Centazzo : Percussion
Eugene Chadbourne : Guitars
Toshinori Kondo : Trumpet
Recorded live in concert at Zoo Place, N.Y. jun 20,
1979
4. Obsession one (Re-issued CD only)
Andrea Centazzo : Percussion
Tom Cora : Cello
Recorded live in concert at Creative Music Studio,
Woodstock, N.Y. dec 1980
5. Obsession two (Re-issued CD only)
Andrea Centazzo : Percussion
Jack Wright : Alt Sax
Recorded live in concert at No Wall, Bologna, Italy
april 1986
6(B-1). Trio Improvisation
Ladonna Smith : Violin, Viola and Voice
Davey Williams : Electric Guitar, Banjo
Andrea Centazzo : Percussion
Recorded live in concert at Mc Cllung Gallery, Jackson
Mississippi nov. 19 1978
7(B-2). Duet Improvisation #4
Toshinori Kondo : Trumpet
Andrea Centazzo : Percussion
Recorded live at Wkcr Radio N.Y. nov. 29 1978
8(B-3). Duet Improvisation #5
Davey Williams : Electric Guitar
Andrea Centazzo : Percussion
Recorded live in concert at Ferg Forum, University of
Alabama, nov. 17 1978
9(B-4). Duet Improvisation #6
Ladonna Smith : Violin, Viola and Voice
Andrea Centazzo : Percussion
Recoeded live in concert at Mc Clung Gallery, Jackson
Mississippi nov. 19 1978
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01-Sextet Improvisation [04:04]
02-Duet Improvisation #1 [05:38]
03-Clangs [06:46]
04-Obsession One [05:32]
05-Obsession Two [04:47]
06-Trio Improvisation [09:14]
07-Duet Improvisation #4 [05:00]
08-Duet Improvisation #5 [04:11]
09-Duet Improvisation #6 [04:18]
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49:30 min
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