Jazz Articles about Noodle Shop

Noodle Shop: Moon Dog Girl

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 2000

Out of the creative firestorm of avant-garde music in New York comes Noodle Shop, an impromptu quartet consisting of Elliott Sharp, John Kruth, Jonathan Segel, and Atilla Engin. Their debut recording, which was recorded shortly after the death of the idiosyncratic blind multi-instrumentalist Moondog, spans the range from funk to free jazz with many stops in between.

The idea here, as far as I can tell, is to leave no stone unturned in their musical journey. Swirling mists of free ...