''I Could've Been a Drum'' is an album by the pianist

Anthony Coleman Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955) is an avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on '' Cobra'', ''Kristallnacht'', ''The Big Gundown'', ''Archery'', and ''Spillane'' and helped push modern Jewish music in ...

and the saxophonist Roy Nathanson, released on the Tzadik label in 1997.Tzadik catalogue
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Reception

In his review for AllMusic, Marc Gilman notes that "this duet collaboration between Anthony Coleman and Roy Nathanson has its high points, but fails to produce music of the outstanding quality of Coleman's other projects".

Track listing

''All compositions by Anthony Coleman and Roy Nathanson except as indicated'' # "Ija Mia" (Traditional) – 2:56 # "L' Amore" – 6:44 # "Mr. Pig Gets a Balloon" (Roy Nathanson) – 2:39 # "Rumle" – 3:37 # "Devotional Song #1" – 6:42 # "(If I Were a) Drum" (Anthony Coleman) – 2:52 # "Soprano Ballad" – 3:27 # "Ija Mia 2" (Traditional) – 3:23 # "Ben" – 3:24 # "Blues" – 4:42

Personnel

– piano,

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* Roy Nathanson – saxophones,

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* Marc Ribot – guitar ;Technical *

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 jaz ...

- executive producer *Ray Dobbins - cover photographer

References

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