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Acid Jazz Burnout (1990)
| composer |
Anthony Coleman (b. 1955) |
| performers |
Anthony Coleman, sampling keyboards
Jim Pugliese, drums, sampler
Don Byron, clarinet
Guy Klucevsek, accordion |
| affiliation |
BMI |
| label |
Einstein Records 001http://www.roulette.org
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| duration |
08:20 |
Anthony Coleman:
"A haunting quality of the recent English dance music called 'acid jazz' is the way that soloistic phrases from jazz solos -- solos which originally strove towards at least the illusion of spontaneity -- are removed from context and ossified: repeated over and over until every quirk is as familiar as a verbal tic. This, as well as an approach to timbre which has often been referred to as 'horrible noise,' was the basic generating principle of Acid Jazz Burnout."
New York City-based composer and keyboardist Anthony Coleman (b. 1955) studied at the High School of Music and Art in New York, New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. His teachers included Jaki Byard, Justin DiCiocio, Betsy Jolas, Mauricio Kagel, Donald Martino, David Mott, and Malcolm Peyton. Coleman has recorded and performed widely in his own projects and with numerous other ensembles. His piano trio Sephardic Tinge has performed at the Sarajevo Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Saalfelden Festival, and the Krakow and Vienna Jewish Culture Festivals. Other projects include the Selfhaters Orchestra, the duo Lobster and Friend with saxophonist Roy Nathanson, and By Night, a series of pieces based on Coleman's experiences in the the former Yugoslavia.
Coleman has received commissions from the Aspen Woodwind Quintet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Crosstown Ensemble, Neta Pulvermacher and Dancers, Relâche Ensemble, and David Krakauer. Grants and residencies include the New York Foundation for the Arts, Djerassi Colony, and Yellow Springs Arts Center. He has also produced several recordings for artists including Marc Ribot, Basya Schecter and Pharoah's Daughter, Romanian singer Sanda, and the Jewish Sabbath recording With Every Breath -- The Music of Shabbat at BJ. As a sideman, Coleman is known for his work with Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos, many projects of John Zorn, duos with singer Shelley Hirsch, and recordings with Elliot Sharp and David Moss.
Coleman's music and performances can be heard on the Avant, CRI, Einstein, Knitting Factory, Koch International Classics, Tzadik, and Wave/Eva labels.
Jim Pugliese has played drums and percussion for over 25 years with artists including John Cage, Carlos Chavez, Anthony Coleman, Lukas Foss, Philip Glass, Kent Nagano, Marc Ribot, David Shea, and John Zorn. He initially studied with Raymond DesRoches and Pablo Landrum, and was for 12 years a member of Newband and the Harry Partch Ensemble. Pugliese has performed at numerous festivals in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan, including Bang on a Can, Victoriavillle, Taktlos, Saalfelden, Nicolsdorf, De Ijsbreker, and Apollohuis. His music and performances can be heard on over 60 recordings on the Avant, CRI, Decca, Einstein, EMI, Knitting Factory, Mode, New World, Nonesuch, and Tzadik labels. As a composer, Pugliese has been artist-in-residence at Harvestworks and composer-in-residence at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts, both in New York City. He regularly performs with his groups EasSide Percussion and Soultronix.
Don Byron is a versatile clarinetist, composer, and arranger whose music and performances embrace a range of styles including classical, funk, hip-hop, jazz, klezmer, latin, and musical theater. He has collaborated with a wide variety of artists including the Atlanta Symphony, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Daniel Barenboim, Anthony Braxton, Uri Caine, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Bill Frisell, Kansas City All-Stars, Salif Keita, Angelique Kidjo, Carole King, Klangforum Wien, Medeski Martin and Wood, Mandy Patinkin, Marc Ribot, Cassandra Wilson, and many others. Raised in a musical family in the Bronx, New York, Byron studied classical clarinet with Joe Allard and at the New England Conservatory of Music with George Russell. Along with his own recordings on the Blue Note and Nonesuch labels, he has composed music for the Bebe Miller Dance Company, Kronos Quartet, and for television and film. Byron has served as artistic director of jazz at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and, since 2000, as artist-in-residence at New York's Symphony Space, where he established the Symphony Space Adventurers Orchestra. His current ensembles include Music for Six Musicians, Bug Music/Bug Music for Juniors, Don Byron Quintet, and Don Byron Medium Band featuring Abdoulaye Diabate.
Guy Klucevsek has created a unique repertoire for accordion through his own compositions and by commissioning over 50 works from composers including Mary Ellen Childs, William Duckworth, Fred Frith, Aaron Jay Kernis, Jerome Kitzke, Alvin Lucier, Stephen Montague, Somei Satoh, Lois V Vierk, and John Zorn. In 1987, Klucevsek commissioned Polka from the Fringe, a collection of 32 postmodern two-steps which he has performed around the world with his group Ain't Nothin' But A Polka Band. In 1996, he formed the Accordion Tribe, an international lineup of composer/accordionists Bratko Bibic, Lars Hollmer, Maria Kalaniemi, and Otto Lechner. Klucevsek's solo performances include the Adelaide Festival in Australia, Bang on a Can Festival, Berlin Jazz Festival, New Music America, Serious Fun! at Lincoln Center, and the children's television show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." He has also performed and/or recorded with Laurie Anderson, Anthony Braxton, Bill Frisell, Robin Holcomb, Kronos Quartet, Pauline Oliveros, Bobby Previte, Relâche Ensemble, and John Zorn. Klucevsek is currently a member of Dave Douglas's band Charms of the Night Sky. His music and performances can be found on the CRI, Evva, Intuition, Review, Starkland, Tzadik, Winter & Winter, and XI labels.
related websites
http://www.webcom.com/jimp/pug.html
http://www.donbyron.com
http://www.guyklucevsek.com
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