Customer Reviews

Big Heart: Live in Tokyo

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This CD is a blast! The title track is one of my all-time favorite jazz cuts. John Lurie has really got an ear for fusing old jump jazz to new abstractions. This is the real deal!

This album walks the razor's edge between rawness and refinement--just where I like my music. Great songwriting and group improvisation on display in a live setting. Hair Street and The Punch and Judy Tango contain a couple of my favorite trombone solos ever!

John Zorn tem seu espaço, é óbvio. Como falar do jazz na década de 80 e 90 sem falar do ensandecido saxofonista judeu ? Impossível. Mas ficar falando apenas dele não seria justo. Entendo ser necessário, entre tantos outros, falar de outro John, John Lurie, líder do excelente The Lounge Lizards. Aos menos arredios às aventuras jazzísticas dos anos 80, vale uma, duas, três, quatro, cinco, seis audições do disco Big Heart: Live In Tokyo, gravado em 1986. Blues ? Tem sim. Hard bop ? Tem sim. Baladas ? Tem sim. Psicodelia ? Tem sim. New Orleans ? Tem sim. Rock ? Tem sim. Tango ? Tem sim, e um tango de fazer Piazzola levantar do túmulo e sair tocando sua ressureita sanfona. Acompanhado de excelentes músicos, entre eles Curtis Fowkles (tb) e Marc Ribot (g), John Lurie mostra que nem tudo se resume a John Zorn no jazz moderno dos anos 80. Falando nisso, vou lá ouvir de novo.

... The Lounge Lizards are masters of melody with riffs slightly reminiscent of other styles and periods but never a cheap copy of anything. I dont know how to express this exactly but attempting: all the musicians seem completely free to offer their own interpretations and not limited by what some big head thinks is cool or correct (ala Pat Metheny or Wynton Marsalis). Like Miles Davis' music was always so great because he just let his players play. I have heard so many mediocre bands with the best players- the Lounge Lizards are exactly NOT that!

I'm givin' this CD 4 stars just 'cos Lurie is a mensch, but really, it's not their most interesting release BY FAR. The Lizards had graduated from being a punk/jazz joke into playing something like REAL JAZZ by the time of this release, but they were FAR from mature. Go for NO PAIN FOR CAKES or VOICE OF CHUNK or the Berlin release that DOESN'T have "Mr. Stinky's Blues" on it, or buy QUEEN OF ALL EARS, if you haven't already. Even better -- hunt down the Marvin Pontiac disc. This one ain't really worth it.