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Fred Katz

Read "Fred Katz" reviewed by Elliott Simon


Fred Katz is generally credited with being the first musician to explore the possibility of the cello as a jazz instrument. He accomplished this while an integral member of drummer Chico Hamilton's influential '50s quintet and through his own solo works such as Soul-o-cello (Decca, 1957), Fred Katz and His Jammers (Decca, 1958) and Zen (World ...

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Fred Katz: Folk Songs for Far Out Folk

Read "Folk Songs for Far Out Folk" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Call Fred Katz a visionary, an iconoclast, a far-out Zen guy. Here's a quote from Katz that gives some insight into the mind of the artist: “Tradition is a terrible tyrant. Memory, man. It's better to live in the moment. I am eating this sandwich. Know what I mean?"Katz possesses a long, strange resume: ...

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Fred Katz: Folk Songs For Far Out Folk

Read "Folk Songs For Far Out Folk" reviewed by Troy Collins


An early student of Pablo Casals, Fred Katz is best known as the seminal jazz cellist in Chico Hamilton's breakthrough chamber jazz quintet of the 1950s. With a lengthy list of credits to his oeuvre, Katz went on to forge an unprecedented career path. From film score composer for Roger Corman (Little Shop of Horrors, A ...

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The Little Shop Of Horrors

Label: Unknown label
Released: 1984

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Folk Songs For Far Out Folk

Label: Unknown label
Released: 1959

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Zen: The Music Of Fred Katz

Label: Unknown label
Released: 1957


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