Re: Audience for "out" music

["Christian Leduc" <chleduc@total.net>]

I know that Zorn is coming with Fred Frith in Victoriaville (near Quebec
city)... In may..

Damn, at this time, I will be somewhere in Italy or Germany!! Well, I don't
regret to travel.... but the timing sucks.. :)

I hate to  miss great shows...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Trenkel" <improv@peak.org>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: Audience for "out" music


> >Andre La Fosse:
> >
> >It could just be my imagination, but it seems like there's actually an
> >increasing receptiveness for "new" music on the part of a lot of
> >listeners these days.  I keep thinking of the cross-breeding that's been
> >going on between some of the "post-rock" or "alternative" schools of
> >thought with "new music" over the last few years -- Jim O'Rourke, Thrill
> >Jockey records, John Fahey, the Fibbers, the Sonic Youth EPs, etc.
> >
> >Me:
> >
> >I too would like to hear thoughts on this.  I recently attended a show 
>by
> >Charms of the Night Sky (quartet of Dave Douglas, Mark Feldman, Guy
> >Kluvesek(sp?), a bassist), with local Tampa Bay avant jazz band Shim
opening
> >at Club More in Clearwater.  The place was packed!  And I mean, packed,
in a
> >larger-than-normal sized club!
> >
> I had the honor of running sound for the Charms of the Night Sky band in
> Portland OR, and that show was sold out! It's Greg Cohen on bass, also
> plays with Zorn's Masada and Tom Waits. Amazing show, and very cool to 
>see
> the audience it brought out.
>
> I find it pretty interesting that we still refer to this as "new" music. 
>I
> mean, when was Ornette's Free Jazz recorded, 1964? Bitches Brew is over 
>30
> years old! And this stuff still stirs controversy, at least among the
> Marsalis/Burns axis. I think that what Dave Douglas, among others, is
doing
> is really the mainstream of jazz for the present day, he's just 
>considered
> a radical because his history of jazz doesn't end in 1965.
>
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