Results for "Knitting Factory"

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Cecil Young: On Coming Home

by Paul Rauch
August 7, 2023

The long journey home holds special meaning for all those that brave the elements of their past, and engage them with the clear identity of the present. This is certainly the case for New York-based trumpeter Cecil Young as he sets autumn flight for his native Seattle to perform at the newly founded Seattle Jazz Fellowship. ...

The World Of Captain Beefheart

By Gary Lucas

Label: Knitting Factory
Released: 2018
Track listing: Sun Zoom Spark; My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains; Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do; I'm Glad; The Smithsonian Institute Blues (or The Big Dig); Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles; Suction Prints; Sugar 'n Spikes; When Big Joan Sets Up; Too Much Time; When It Blows Its Stacks; Tropical Hot Dog Night.

Nona Hendryx and Gary Lucas: The World Of Captain Beefheart

by Jerome Wilson
February 11, 2018

Gary Lucas has been a long time fan of the one-of-a-kind mutant rock-jazz-blues of Captain Beefheart. This led to his being part of Beefheart's Magic Band in the '80s and to his revisiting the music after Beefheart's 1985 retirement in various formats including a raucous jazz tribute band, Fast 'n' Bulbous. This time he goes back ...

Matthew Shipp: Shipp Shape

by Chris Rich
August 12, 2012

Pianist Matthew Shipp is very keenly attuned to the details and nuances of what has to be the most forlorn and anemic environment imaginable for anything a sensible person would call business. Think of it as the sort of business ecosystem that resembles the least habitable places on earth, say a fumarole at the bottom of ...

The Ordeal of Civility

By Gary Lucas

Label: Knitting Factory
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. LuvzOldSweetSong; 02. Chime On; 03. Swamp T'ing; 04. Climb the Highest Mountain; 05. Hot and Cold Everything; 06. Lady of Shalott; 07. Peep Show Bible; 08. Whirlygig; 09. Depression; 10. Lazy Flowers; 11. Jedwabne.

Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters: The Ordeal of Civility

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 22, 2011

Gary Lucas è un chitarrista proteiforme che alterna progetti più sperimentali e etnici con album dove il rock torna prepotentemente a farla da padrone come in questo The Ordeal of Civility pubblicato dalla Knitting Factory Records, una etichetta che sembrava uscita dalla mappa e che invece torna a dare segnali di vitalità. La produzione è affidata ...

The Best Of The Black President

By Fela Kuti

Label: Knitting Factory
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD1: Lady; Shakara; Gentleman (Edited Version); Water No Get Enemy (Edited Version); Zombie; Sorrow Tears And Blood; No Agreement (Part 2). CD2: Roforofo Fight; Shuffering And Smiling (Part 2); Coffin For Head Of State (Part 2); I.T.T (Part 2); Army Arrangement (Part 2); O.D.O.O. (Edited Version).

Fela Kuti: The Best Of The Black President

by Chris May
November 20, 2009

Twelve years after his death, activity around the legacy of Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti is growing exponentially and the US, finally, is getting in on the act. Choreographer Bill T. Jones' musical, Fela, is to open on Broadway on November 23, 2009, and meanwhile New York's Knitting Factory label has begun a reissue program which will, ...

All Is One - Live In New York City

By Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

Label: Knitting Factory
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1.Thelonious Monk Is My Grandfather 2.Grub Ridge Stomp 3.The Slip 4.These Is No Method 5.Lovejoy 6.Overtone Star 7.Vernal Equinox 8.Hunter Gatherer 9.Three Splattered Eggs