Naked City (band)
| Naked City | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | New York City , United States |
| Genre (s) | Avant-garde jazz , fusion , free jazz , experimental , noise , crossover |
| founding | 1989 |
| resolution | 1993 |
| Last occupation | |
| John anger | |
| Wayne Horvitz | |
| Bill Frisell | |
| Fred Frith | |
| Joey Baron | |
| Yamatsuka Eye | |
Naked City was a band founded in 1989 around the saxophonist John Zorn , which played a mixture of experimental rock music and avant-garde jazz . The group's name refers to the television series Naked City . With Naked City , the jazz musician Zorn managed to open up a rock music audience.
history
The information about the founding fluctuates between 1987 and 1989. Zorn formed the project as a “composition workshop” for the cast in a conventionally cast quintet or sextet, with which he wanted to push the limits of what was musically possible. The 1989 Elektra Records released a self-titled debut album Naked City is an excellent introduction to the Knitting Factory described scene and contained anger interpreting various film music - themes . Processed were u. a. Compositions by Ennio Morricone , the James Bond Theme or Lonely Woman by Ornette Coleman . The music is initially characterized as a mixture of free jazz and heavy metal with influences from country , punk and blues . With the second album Torture Garden , which was released in 1990, Zorn took the fusion of jazz and rock music to extremes by incorporating Grindcore elements, hardly any of the songs were longer than a minute, which is typical for Grindcore. The 1991 album Grand Guignol continued on this path and waited next to the 17-minute title track with adaptations of Claude Debussy's La cathédrale engloutie and parts of Alexander Nikolajewitsch Scriabin's Prelude Op. 74 on. The second part of the album again consisted of very short improvised pieces, which were called Thrash- Jazz . The following album was released in 1993 under the title Absinthe and showed Zorn and his colleagues from a quieter side, partly influenced by ambient . A little later, Zorn lost interest in Naked City and dissolved the project. Also in 1993 was the studio album Radio , recorded in 1992 , which, unlike its predecessors, contained only Zorn's own compositions and which was supposedly intended as an introduction to the music of Naked City for college students . After the end of the project, Zorn's label Tzadik released various compilations and a live album .
Discography
- 1989: Naked City ( Elektra )
- 1991: Torture Garden (Shimmy Disc, 1989; Earache )
- 1992: Heretic, Jeux des Dames Cruelles (Avant)
- 1992: Grand Guignol (Avant)
- 1993: radio
- 1993: Absinthe
- 2002: Naked City Live, Vol. 1: Knitting Factory 1989
Individual evidence
- ^ Henry Martin, Keith Waters: Jazz: The First 100 Years . Cengage Learning, 2005, ISBN 978-0-534-62804-8 , pp. 381 .
- ^ Todd S. Jenkins: Chronology of Events . In: Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia . tape 1 . Greenwood Publishing, 2004, ISBN 978-0-313-33313-2 , pp. 1xxxi .
- ↑ Christopher Meeder: Jazz: The Basics . Taylor & Francis, 2008, ISBN 978-0-415-96693-1 , pp. 240 .
- Jump up ↑ Bradley Torreano: Torture Garden - Naked City. Allmusic , accessed on January 11, 2011 .
- ^ Ted Mills: Grand Guignol - Naked City. Allmusic , accessed on January 11, 2011 .
- ^ Maurice Rickard: Radio - Naked City. Allmusic , accessed on January 11, 2011 .
Web links
- Naked City at Allmusic (English)