RE: RARA-AVIS: All That Jazz

Gilbert, Len (lgilbert@inpower.com)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:56:58 -0800 >----------
>From: Kevin Smith[SMTP:kvnsmith@total.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, 19 November, 1997 4:26 PM
>To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: All That Jazz
>
>I got no kick against modern jazz...but gimme rock'n'roll music.
>
>Hmmm....I think a PI is not just jazz, but R&B, country, rock'n'roll, and
>no doubt soon rap and techno. A PI should be a "man of his time."
>

>I'm looking forward to nabbing a copy of that Rhino CD, though. And any of
>you jazz guys should check out John Zorn's Spillane, a twenty-odd minute
>performance piece (some of it very odd) of bits of jazz, spoken word, sound
>effects and who knows what else. As Mike Hammer might say, "What is this
>shit?"

And Zorn's Naked City, kind of 40s meets 90s weird annoying cool.

--Len

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