Jazz Articles about Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne and the Insect and Western Party: Beauty and the Bloodsucker

by Robert Spencer
November 1, 1999

Eugene Chadbourne is an American original: consummate improviser, rockabilly jazz guitarist, genre crosser, bug enthusiast, certifiable madman. This disc is a worthy addition to his oeuvre, as it features some notable collaborators: Ellery Eskelin, Gino Robair, and others. As usual, it is full of irony and all over the stylistic map. As usual, it is full of great music.

Chadbourne and Eskelin have their best moment on the opening “Nymphialiadae," on which they spin loose-limbed lines rapidly over a rhythmically ...

Eugene Chadbourne: Worms with Strings

by Robert Spencer
April 1, 1999

Well, the world may or may not be ready for a musical celebration of fecal worms, but Eugene Chadbourne certainly is, and when Eugene Chadbourne is ready for something, he has long since ceased to wait for any sign of approval or readiness from the populace. For all his joyful eccentricity, Chadbourne is a first-rate instrumentalist, and this disc displays his talents well. As he plays guitar, banjo, and various other things, he's joined here in ensembles, live and multi-tracked, ...

Eugene Chadbourne: Worms with Strings

by Robert Spencer
April 1, 1999

Well, the world may or may not be ready for a musical celebration of fecal worms, but Eugene Chadbourne certainly is, and when Eugene Chadbourne is ready for something, he has long since ceased to wait for any sign of approval or readiness from the populace. For all his joyful eccentricity, Chadbourne is a first-rate instrumentalist, and this disc displays his talents well. As he plays guitar, banjo, and various other things, he's joined here in ensembles, live and multi-tracked, ...

Eugene Chadbourne: Worms With Strings

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 1999

Over the past 20 years, Eugene Chadbourne has established well deserved reputations as virtuoso improvising guitarist, musical eccentric, and all around troublemaker. This project, recorded primarily during 1997-1998, unsurprisingly reinforces these designations (or accusations as the case may be). Chadbourne’s liner notes describe this recording as paying tribute to worms (although cockroaches and other insect life figure prominently as well). However, and perhaps more importantly, the ‘strings’ portion of the title refers directly to the music itself, described as a ...