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Zu (band)
Zu is an Italian instrumental band from Rome. While their line-up of baritone sax, bass guitar and drums is typical of a jazz band, their hard-driving sound is indebted to punk rock and according to AllMusic "defies easy categorization". Zu have collaborated with a wide variety of musicians and been described as "masters at adapting to their guests' musical backgrounds". History Hailing from Ostia (a town near Rome), Zu are an atypical trio consisting of drums, bass, baritone saxophone and electronics. Formed in Rome in 1997, they began as composers and performers for theater productions. The band is composed of three members: Luca Mai on baritone saxophone, Massimo Pupillo on bass and Jacopo Battaglia on drums. Zu have released fourteen albums, including two live albums and two splits. They have played at festivals in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. In 2006, the band toured with the super group Fantômas Melvins Big Band. The members are also active in the Italian folk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
, established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption = The territory of the ''comune'' (''Roma Capitale'', in red) inside the Metropolitan City of Rome (''Città Metropolitana di Roma'', in yellow). The white spot in the centre is Vatican City. , pushpin_map = Italy#Europe , pushpin_map_caption = Location within Italy##Location within Europe , pushpin_relief = yes , coordinates = , coor_pinpoint = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Italy , subdivision_type2 = Region , subdivision_name2 = Lazio , subdivision_type3 = Metropolitan city , subdivision_name3 = Rome Capital , government_footnotes= , government_type = Strong Mayor–Council , leader_title2 = Legislature , leader_name2 = Capitoline Assembl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk-jazz
Folk jazz is a musical style that combines traditional folk music with elements of jazz, usually featuring richly texturized songs. Its origins can be traced back to the 1950s, when artists like Jimmy Giuffre and Tony Scott pursued distinct approaches to folk music production, initially, as a vehicle for soloist expression. Folk jazz was most popular during the middle and latter parts of the 1960s, when some already established folk musicians incorporated diverse musical traditions into their works. Many already popular musical styles diversified as counter-culture bands embraced experimentation and inclusiveness in their works. " Rainy Day Women#12 & 35" from Bob Dylan's 1966 double album ''Blonde on Blonde'' blends various Americana traditions with a jazzy rhythm. In 1968, Van Morrison released the influential ''Astral Weeks'', a mixture of folk, jazz, blues, soul and classical music. In 1969, Tim Buckley released '' Happy Sad'', an album in which he hinted at his early jazz in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeb Bishop
Jeb Bishop (born 1962) is an American jazz trombone player. He grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended Jesse O. Sanderson High School. He has studied music (classical trombone performance) at Northwestern University, engineering and philosophy at North Carolina State University, and philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Arizona, Loyola University, and the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. In the 1980s, he played electric bass and electric guitar in rock bands including Stillborn Christians, Egg, and/or, and the Angels of Epistemology (a band based in Raleigh and Chapel Hill that released a CD on Merge Records). In the 1990s, he moved to Chicago and began transitioning from rock to jazz music. He played bass guitar in The Flying Luttenbachers (a jazz/rock band) and a jazz group led by Ken Vandermark called the Unheard Music Quartet. By the mid 1990s he was performing in public on the trombone while also playing electr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motorhellington
Motorhellington is the third album by the Italian band Zu, which appear in Roy Paci on trumpet and backing vocals and Eugene Chadbourne Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954) is an American banjoist, guitarist and music critic. Life and career Chadbourne was born in Mount Vernon, New York, but grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He started playing guitar when he was eleven or twel ... on guitar and vocals. Track list # Iron Man – 8:45 # The Robots – 5:29 # Chain of Fools – 7:07 # Boogie Stop Shuffle – 8:18 # Corcovado – 7:16 # Pushin' Too Hard – 5:22 # Sex Machine – 6:37 # Sacrifice – 3:06 References Zu (band) albums 2000 albums {{2000s-experimental-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Zu Side Of The Chadbourne
''The Zu Side Of The Chadbourne'' is the second album by the Italian band Zu, featuring Roy Paci on trumpet and Eugene Chadbourne on guitar. The titles of the songs are obvious parodies of famous rock songs like Lucy in the sky with diamonds or Stairway to Heaven. The first song is a tribute to John Coltrane, and the last to Albert Ayler Albert Ayler (; July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer. After early experience playing R&B and bebop, Ayler began recording music during the free jazz era of the 1960s. Howev .... Track list # Cosmos – 5:16 # Chadbourne In The Sky With Diamonds – 7:08 # Somewhere Over The Chadbourne – 1:38 # Porgy and Chadbourne – 6:47 # Holiday in Chadbournia – 1:10 # Ascenseur pour the Chadbourne – 5:00 # In a Gadda Na Chadbourne – 7:47 # O' Chadbourne mio! – 1:49 # House of The Raising Chadbourne – 4:05 # Stairway to Chadbourne – 1:53 # For Those About to Chadbour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954) is an American banjoist, guitarist and music critic. Life and career Chadbourne was born in Mount Vernon, New York, but grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He started playing guitar when he was eleven or twelve, inspired by the Beatles and hoping to get the attention of girls. Although he was drawn to Jimi Hendrix and played in a garage band, he found rock and pop music too conventional. He gravitated to the avant-garde jazz of Anthony Braxton and Derek Bailey. Braxton persuaded Chadbourne to abandon his intention to enter journalism and instead pursue music. During the early 1970s, he lived in Canada to avoid military service in the Vietnam War. Returning to the United States, he moved to New York City in the mid 1970s and played free improvisation with Henry Kaiser and John Zorn. Around this time, he released his first album, ''Solo Acoustic Guitar''. In the early 1980s, he led the avant-rock band Shockabilly with Mark Kramer and David L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zu @ Roadburn Festival 2017 04
Zu or ZU may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional elements * Zu, a mountain featured in the films ''Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain'' and ''The Legend of Zu'' * ''ZU'', a " furry" anthology published by MU Press * Zu, a large birdlike monster from the ''Final Fantasy'' series Other uses in arts and entertainment * Zu (band), an Italian hardcore/jazz band * ''zu'' and ''zun'', types of ancient Chinese ritual bronzes Language * There are two different kana (Japanese script) letters that are romanized as ''zu'': ** ず: Su (す) with dakuten (voicing marks) ** づ: Tsu (つ) with dakuten; in modern standard Japanese primarily used for indicating a voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word, and can never begin a word * Zu (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing * Zulu language, ISO 639-2 code:zu Names * Zu (surname) (祖), a Chinese surname * Zu, a nobiliary particle, in German * Ziv Kalontarov (born 1997), Israeli swimmer Places * Zu, Afghanistan, a village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock-A-Rolla
''Rock-A-Rolla'' was a music magazine covering experimental, avant-garde, noise and metal artists pushing the boundaries of music. Launched in late 2005, it was published bi-monthly in the UK by V-Squared Publishing Limited and distributed worldwide, mainly in the UK, the US, Canada, Europe and Australia. In the past the magazine has championed such diverse artists as Khanate, Zu, The Locust, Justin Broadrick, Mike Patton, Melvins and others. The editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ... was Vuk Valcic. The magazine ceased publishing in 2016 with the website not being updated and the Twitter feed only offering sale of back copies. References Bi-monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom Music magazines published in the United Kingdom Defun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carboniferous (album)
''Carboniferous'' is a studio album from the Italian band Zu. It was the group's first album for Ipecac Records. Reception Initial critical response to ''Carboniferous'' was very positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 83, based on ten reviews. Track listing # "Ostia" – 4:55 # "Chthonian" – 6:48 (feat. King Buzzo) # "Carbon" – 4:24 # "Beata Viscera" – 3:57 # "Erinys" – 3:43 # "Soulympics" – 5:05 (feat. Mike Patton) # "Axion" – 5:21 # "Mimosa Hostilis" – 4:09 # "Obsidian" – 6:29 # "Orc" – 5:20 (feat. Mike Patton Michael Allan Patton (born January 27, 1968) is an American singer, producer, film composer and voice actor, best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative metal band Faith No More. Noted for his vocal proficiency, diverse singing techni ...) References External links * 2009 albums Zu (band) albums Ipecac Recordings album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and world music.Milkowski, B."John Zorn: One Future, Two Views"(interview) in '' Jazz Times'', March 2000, pp. 28–35,118–121; accessed July 24, 2010. In 2013, '' Down Beat'' described Zorn as "one of our most important composers" and in 2020 ''Rolling Stone'' noted that " ltough Zorn has operated almost entirely outside the mainstream, he's gradually asserted himself as one of the most influential musicians of our time".Steamer, H.‘He Made the World Bigger’: Inside John Zorn's Jazz-Metal Multiverse ''Rolling Stone'', June 22, 2020. Zorn entered New York City's downtown music scene in the mid-1970s, collaborating with improvising artists while d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobukazu Takemura
Nobukazu Takemura (竹村延和 ''Takemura Nobukazu'') is a Japanese musician and artist. Born in Hirakata, Osaka in August 1968, he became interested in music at a young age by listening to the radio, and began to make music at home with a tape recorder and keyboard. During high school, after a record store job that exposed him to jazz and hip-hop, he had regular gigs in the clubs of Osaka and Kyoto as a battle DJ before launching his music career. Takemura's music career has seen him cover a wide range of genres and styles within short periods of time. Beginning his career in hip-hop and jazz, Takemura later entered into a prolific period as an electronic musician, exploring genres such as glitch, drum and bass and minimalism. Takemura's most recent work has included chamber music and performance art. Career In 1990, Takemura founded the instrumental hip hop group Audio Sports with Yamatsuka Eye (of The Boredoms) and Aki Onda. Their first album, ''Era of Glittering Gas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mats Gustafsson
Mats Olof Gustafsson (born 29 October 1964) is a Swedish free jazz saxophone player. Career Gustafsson came to the attention of lovers of improvised music as part of a duo with Christian Munthe (started in 1986), as member of Gunter Christmann's Vario project and the band Gush (started in 1988). He later played widely with Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Paul Lovens, Barry Guy, Yoshimi P-We, Derek Bailey, Magnus Broo, Otomo Yoshihide, Pat Thomas, Jim O'Rourke, Thomas Lehn, Evan Parker, Misha Mengelberg, Zu, The Ex and Sonic Youth. Since the early 1990s Gustafsson has been a regular visitor to the United States, forming a particular affinity with Chicago musicians Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang, and Ken Vandermark and recording for Okka Disk. He was awarded the 2011 Nordic Council Music Prize. Gustafsson has worked extensively with artists from the worlds of dance, theatre, poetry and painting. He has lived in Nickelsdorf, Austria since 2011. Festival curat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
