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Drawing upon his experience in classical, jazz, rock, hardcore punk, klezmer, film, cartoon, popular, world and improvised music, John Zorn has created a controversial and influential body of work that often defies academic categories. He has earned great respect within his own community and beyond by going his own way without compromise, developing a large network of supporters world wide, often in unexpected places. Born in 1953 and raised in New York City, Zorn has been a central figure in the Downtown Scene since 1975, incorporating a wide variety of creative musicians into various compositional formats

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News for Lulu

By John Zorn

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: KD's Motion; Funk in Deep Freeze; Melanie; Melody for C; Lotus Blossom; Eastern Incident; Peckin' Time; Blues Blues Blues; Blue Minor 1; This I Dig for You; Venita's Dance; News for Lulu; Ole; Sonny's Crib; Hank's Other Tune; Blue Minor 11; Windmill; Melanie; Blues for Lulu; Funk in Deep Freeze; Windmill.

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John Zorn/George Lewis/Bill Frisell: News For Lulu

Read "News For Lulu" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley
October 6, 2008

This is another reissue of the 1987 album that found this avant super-trio in what was (and still is) unlikely territory, not only playing bebop, but also pouncing on a less than obvious repertoire. Four composers were selected, their hardboppin’ tunes more or less equally divided, with around four numbers each from trumpeter Kenny ...

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John Zorn / George Lewis / Bill Frisell: News for Lulu

Read "News for Lulu" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
June 11, 2008

Fun, fun, brilliant, spirit-raising fun. News For Lulu, recorded in 1987 and here reissued in a new master with a bonus track, features three idiosyncratic post-modern improvisers in a homage to the late 1950s hard bop songbook--not playing the material for laughs, not subjecting it to "reconstruction," but approaching it with joy, respect, truck ...

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