Mostly Other People Do the Killing

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Mostly Other People Do the Killing
Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Moers Festival 2009
Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Moers Festival 2009
General information
Genre (s) Creative jazz
founding 2003
Website www.hotcuprecords.com/
Founding members
Jon Irabagon
Peter Evans
bass
 Moppa Elliott
Drums
 Kevin Shea
Peter Evans at the Moers Festival 2009

Mostly Other People Do the Killing is an American jazz band that initially worked as a quartet . The band name alludes to the physicist Lew Termen , the inventor of the theremin , who said in an interview that Stalin wasn't such a bad guy because other people usually did the killing.

Moppa Elliott, Moers Festival 2009
Jon Irabagon, Moers Festival 2009
Kevin Shea, Moers Festival 2009

History and meaning

The New York band Mostly Other People Do the Killing was formed in 2003 when bassist Moppa Elliott and trumpeter Peter Evans, both students at Oberlin College in the late 1990s , after moving to New York to study saxophonist Jon Irabagon and the drummer Kevin Shea met. The formation performs compositions by Elliott, all named after places in his home state Pennsylvania . In longer suites, the original compositions and jazz standards are mixed with theatrical interludes, which refer to Willem Breuker and Lester Bowie with their parodic borrowings . Accordingly, the quartet is "a furious musical suicide mission" (according to Andreas Felber ), "which messes up the jazz history from Count Basie to Weather Report in sparkling trashy energy and does not make any prisoners."

Also classics of jazz reinterpret Mostly Other People Do the Killing . The productions after the debut album Shamokin !!! and This Is Our Moosic parody classic jazz albums A Night in Tunisia (1960) by Art Blakey and This Is Our Music (1960) by Ornette Coleman with their cover art ; the album Forty Fort takes up the layout of the Impulse! -Albums Out of the Afternoon (1962) by Roy Haynes with Rahsaan Roland Kirk , and the cover photo of the live double album The Coimbra Concert makes reference to Keith Jarrett's Cologne Concert .

Founder Elliott regards the reference to the musical past as a " transcription " of the album cover in the form of a reinterpretation of "iconic images":

"It is interesting to think about what an 'iconic image' is, and our music lends itself to not the creation of iconic images, but the re-interpretation and re-creation of them."

In 2009 Mostly Other People Do the Killing won the Downbeat Critic's Poll in the Rising Star Ensemble category . As part of a first European tour, the quartet presented itself in 2009 at the Moers Festival and the Enjoy Jazz Festival . In 2011 it performed at the Newport Jazz Festival . In October 2012 the quartet of suits made a guest appearance at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival .

For the album Red Hot , the line-up was expanded to include bass trombonist David Taylor , guitarist and banjo player Brandon Seabrook and pianist Ron Stabinsky . The seventh studio album by the band Blue is a 1: 1 copy (no reinterpretation) of the Miles Davis classic Kind of Blue from 1959; Rod Stabinsky completed the band to form a quintet. Peter Evans was replaced by the pianist Ron Stabinsky on the eighth studio album Mauch Chunk . After the septet album Loafer's Hollow (2017), the band presented themselves as a piano trio on the album Paint .

Discography

  • Mostly Other People Do the Killing (Hot Cup Records, 2004)
  • Shamokin !!! (Hot Cup, 2006)
  • This Is Our Moosic (Hot Cup, 2008)
  • Forty Fort (Hot Cup, 2009)
  • The Coimbra Concert ( Clean Feed Records , 2011, live)
  • Slippery Rock (Hot Cup Records 2012)
  • Red Hot (Hot Cup, 2013)
  • Blue (Hot Cup, 2014)
  • Hanover (Jazzwerkstatt, 2014, live)
  • Mauch Chunk (Hot Cup, 2015)
  • Loafer's Hollow (Hot Cup, 2017)
  • Paint (Hot Cup, 2017)

Web links

Commons : Mostly Other People Do the Killing  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Four eccentric New York suit wearers who like to adorn their music with the term “terrorist bebop”, HR2 for the concert on October 26, 2012
  2. ↑ His predecessor Vincent Sperrazza was a member of the quartet at the first rehearsals, but left the band before the first performance on November 25, 2003.
  3. ↑ a b Patrick Jarenwattanano: Album Art, Mostly By Other People at NPR-Jazz
  4. ↑ A. Felber Die Bebop-Terroristen , Der Standard , February 17, 2012
  5. ↑ Michael G. Nastos, review of the album This Is Our Moosic at Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 23, 2012.
  6. ↑ Review of the album Forty Fourth at Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 23, 2012.
  7. ^ Clean Feed Records
  8. ↑ UMass Amherst (concert announcement)
  9. ^ Newport Jazz 2011: Mostly Other People Do The Killing, Live In Concert
  10. ↑ Red Hot Review (All About Jazz)
  11. ^ Review of the album Blue (2014) in JazzTimes
  12. ↑ Stefan Hentz: Another kind of blue (2015) in Die Zeit
  13. ↑ Mauch Chunk (review of All About Jazz)
  14. ↑ Paint (meeting)
  15. ↑ Bebop terrorism as a jazz fresh cell treatment (discussion)