Hallelujah, Anyway – Remembering Tom Cora
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''Hallelujah, Anyway – Remembering Tom Cora'' is a 1999 double-CD compilation album by various artists dedicated to United States cellist and composer
Tom Cora Thomas Henry Corra (September 14, 1953 – April 9, 1998), better known as Tom Cora, was an American cellist and composer, best known for his Free improvisation, improvisational performances in the field of Experimental music, experimental jazz ...
, who had died on April 9, 1998. It includes material composed in Cora's memory, songs he had written for other musicians and groups, and a selection of music he had performed and participated in. It was released in May 1999 by
John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conducting, conductor, saxophonist, arrangement, arranger and record producer, producer who "deliberately resists category". His Avant-garde music, avant-garde and experimental music, ex ...
's
Tzadik Records Tzadik is a record label in New York City that specializes in avant-garde and experimental music. The label was established by composer and saxophonist John Zorn in 1995. He is the executive producer of all Tzadik releases. Tzadik is a not-for-p ...
. One of the tracks, "Talking to the Tree", was performed at Cora's Memorial Concert in May 1998 by Cora's widow,
Catherine Jauniaux Catherine Jauniaux is a Belgian avant-garde singer. She has been described as a "one-woman-orchestra", a "human sampler", and "one of the best kept secrets in the world of improvised music". Her solo album, ''Fluvial'' (1983) is regarded as one ...
, and one of his frequent collaborators,
Fred Frith Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as a founding member of the English avant-rock group Henry ...
.


Reception

Writing in a review at
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, Joslyn Layne described this retrospective compilation as " beat, eclectic, eccentric, beautiful". She called
Tom Cora Thomas Henry Corra (September 14, 1953 – April 9, 1998), better known as Tom Cora, was an American cellist and composer, best known for his Free improvisation, improvisational performances in the field of Experimental music, experimental jazz ...
"a significant improviser and extraordinary cellist", and said this release was important because it highlighted Cora's "undervalued brilliance". Layne called the album "a worthy eulogy" and " ghly recommended for all with open ears". Andrew Bartlett said in a review of ''Hallelujah, Anyway'' in the ''
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'' that it is an "eminently memorable" collection of tributes to Cora, who he said had taken his cello to "untold new places". Bartlett said " u won't find a better collection of post-1970s avant-garde guiding lights collected anywhere".


Track listing

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Personnel

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Tom Cora Thomas Henry Corra (September 14, 1953 – April 9, 1998), better known as Tom Cora, was an American cellist and composer, best known for his Free improvisation, improvisational performances in the field of Experimental music, experimental jazz ...
(3,5,7,12,14,15,17,18,20–23,27,29,30,32,34,37,39) – cello, accordions, home-made instruments, voice *Lesli Dalaba (1) – trumpet *
Kazutoki Umezu is a Japanese jazz saxophonist. He has performed with Tom Cora, Samm Bennett, Ruins, Michiyo Yagi and Susumu Hirasawa is a Japanese musician and composer. He is well known for his work for the films of director Satoshi Kon and the animated ...
(2) – alto saxophone *Nakao Kanji (2) – soprano saxophone *Hayashi Eiichi (2) – alto saxophone *Tada Yoko (2) – alto saxophone *Katayama Hiroaki (2) – tenor saxophone *Nomoto Kazuhiro (2) – baritone saxophone *Shimizu Kazuto (2) – bass clarinet *Ohara Yutaka (2) – trombone *Sekijima Takerou (2) – tuba *Kondo Tatsuo (2) – accordion *Keichi (2) – percussion *
Phil Minton Phil Minton (born 2 November 1940) is a British avant-garde jazz/ free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter. Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook' ...
(3) – voice *Luc Ex (3,21) – bass guitar *Michael Vatcher (3) – drums *
Fred Frith Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as a founding member of the English avant-rock group Henry ...
(4,14,18,27,37,39) – guitar, home-made instruments, bass guitar *
Catherine Jauniaux Catherine Jauniaux is a Belgian avant-garde singer. She has been described as a "one-woman-orchestra", a "human sampler", and "one of the best kept secrets in the world of improvised music". Her solo album, ''Fluvial'' (1983) is regarded as one ...
(4) – voice *Pippin Barnett (5,9) – drums * George Cartwright (5,18) – saxophones *Ann Rupel (5) – bass guitar *
Davey Williams David Carlous Williams (November 2, 1927 – August 17, 2009) was an American professional baseball player and coach. During his Major League Baseball career, spent entirely with the New York Giants of the National League, the second baseman app ...
(5) – guitar *
Amy Denio Amy Denio (born June 9, 1961) is a Seattle-based multi-instrumental composer of soundtracks for modern dance, film and theater, as well as a songwriter and music improviser. Her inspirations include world music, and is mainly known as a vocali ...
(6) – voice, percussion, guitar, alto, piano innards, text *Jeroen Visser (6) – collage, mastering *
Samm Bennett Samm Bennett is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Samm Bennett is a singer and songwriter, a drummer and percussionist, and a player of string instruments such as the stick dulcimer (sometimes called a dulcitar) and the ...
(8,15) – drums, samples *Ito Haruna (8) *Barry Bless (9) – accordion *Danny Finny (9) – tenor saxophone *Robbie Kinter (9) – percussion, keyboard *George Lowe (9) – bass clarinet *Dave Yohe (9) – bass guitar *
Caroline Kraabel Caroline Kraabel (born 1961 in Torrance, California Torrance is a coastal city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area located in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city is part of what is known as the South Bay (Los A ...
(10) – saxophone *John Edwards (10) – bass guitar *Chris Cochrane (11) – voice *
Zeena Parkins Zeena Parkins (born 1956) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist active in experimental, free improvised, contemporary classical, and avant-jazz music; she is known for having "reinvented the harp". Parkins performs on standard har ...
(11,27,28) – piano *Hakim Hamadouche (12) – lute, voice *Edmond Hosdikian (12) – alto saxophone *
Barre Phillips Barre Phillips (October 27, 1934 – December 28, 2024) was an American jazz double bass, bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he moved to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. From 1972 he was based in southern France, where in ...
(12) – bass guitar *Ahmed Compaore (12) – drums *
Wayne Horvitz Wayne Horvitz (born September 1, 1955) is an American composer, keyboardist and record producer. He came to prominence in the Downtown scene of 1980s and '90s New York City, where he met his future wife, the singer, songwriter and pianist Robi ...
(13) – piano *
John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conducting, conductor, saxophonist, arrangement, arranger and record producer, producer who "deliberately resists category". His Avant-garde music, avant-garde and experimental music, ex ...
(14,23) – alto saxophone, game calls, mouthpieces, soprano saxophone, clarinet *
Marc Ribot Marc Ribot (; born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer. His work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, Rock music, rock, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notab ...
(15) – guitar *Takeda Kenichi (16) – taishokoto *Okuma Wataru (16,32) – clarinet, chorus, piano *Iwate Hiroshi (16) – saxophone *Chino Shuichi (16) – keyboard *Koyama Tetsuto (16) – bass guitar *Nakao Kanji (16) – drums *Kasuga Hirobumi (16) – guitar *Leo Smith (17) – trumpet, small instruments *
Richard Teitelbaum Richard Lowe Teitelbaum (May 19, 1939 – April 9, 2020) was an American composer, keyboardist, and improvisor. A student of Allen Forte, Mel Powell, and Luigi Nono, he was known for his live electronic music and synthesizer performances. He ...
(17) – synthesizer *
Carlos Zingaro Carlos Zíngaro (or Carlos "Zíngaro" Alves, born 15 December 1948) is a Portuguese violinist and electronic musician active in free improvisation. Biography Zingaro studied classical music at the Lisbon Music Conservatory from 1953 to 1965, and ...
(17) – violin * Mark Howell (18) – guitar *Rick Brown (18) – drums *Thierry Azam (19) – all instruments *Terrie Ex (21) – guitar * Andy Ex (21) – guitar *Katrin Ex (21) – drums * G.W. Sok (21) – vocals *
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, Mount Vernon, New York, but grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He started playing guitar wh ...
(23) – guitar, voice, tape effects *
David Licht David Licht (born 20th century in Detroit, Michigan) is a drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning American Klezmer band The Klezmatics. He moved to New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the m ...
(23) – drums * Kramer (23,38) – cheap organ, voice, all instruments (on (38)) *
Miya Masaoka Miya Masaoka (born 1958, Washington, D.C.) is an American composer, musician, and sound artist active in the field of contemporary classical music and experimental music. Her work encompasses contemporary classical composition, improvisation, ele ...
(24) – koto * Larry Ochs (24) – tenor saxophone *
Bob Ostertag Robert "Bob" Ostertag (born April 19, 1957) is an American musician, writer, and political activist based in San Francisco. He has published seven books, one feature film, a DVD, twenty-six albums, and collaborated with numerous musicians. Mus ...
(24) – samples *
Gerry Hemingway Gerry Hemingway (born March 23, 1955) is an American drummer and composer. Hemingway was a member of the Anthony Braxton quartet from 1983 to 1994. He has also performed with Ernst Reijseger, Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Leo Smith, George E. ...
(25) – percussion *
Elliott Sharp Elliott Sharp (born March 1, 1951) is an American contemporary classical music, contemporary classical composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, author, and visual artist. A central figure in the Avant-garde music, avant-garde and experimenta ...
(26) – guitar *
Frances-Marie Uitti Frances-Marie Uitti (born 1946) is an American cellist and composer known for her use of extended techniques and performance of contemporary classical music. Tom Service, music critic for the ''Guardian'' newspaper, has called her "arguably the wor ...
(26) – cello *Sara Parkins (28) – violin *Margaret Parkins (28) – cello *
Iva Bittová Iva Bittová (born 22 July 1958) is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer, and composer. She began her career as an actor in the mid-1970s, appearing in several Czech feature films, but switched to playing violin and singing in the early 1980s ...
(29) – violin, voice *Momo Rossel (30) – guitar * Bratko Bibič (30) – accordion *Jean-Vin Huguenin (30) – bass guitar *
Nicolas Collins Nicolas Collins (born March 26, 1954, in New York City) is a composer of mostly electronic music, a sound artist and writer. He received his BA and MA from Wesleyan University, and his PhD from the University of East Anglia. Upon graduating from ...
(31) – backwards electric guitar *Rorie (32) – chorus, marimba *Kimura Shinya (32) – drums *Shinoda Masami (32) – baritone saxophone *Nishimura Takuya (32) – bass guitar *
Hahn Rowe Hahn Rowe is an American violinist, guitarist, composer, and engineer/producer, involved in a wide range of projects. He also performs using the stage name Somatic. Career Originally a violinist and guitarist with New York City dream-poppers H ...
(33) – all instruments *
Wolfgang Mitterer Wolfgang Mitterer (born 6 June 1958 in Lienz, East Tyrol) is an Austrian composer and musician (organ, keyboard). Biography Wolfgang Mitterer studied with Otto Bruckner in Graz in 1977, and then from 1978 to 1983 at the University of Music and ...
(34) – piano, prepared piano *Tyson Rogers (35) – piano *Thomas Dimuzio (36) – digital editing and processing *
Chris Cutler Chris Cutler (born 4 January 1947) is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of other bands, including Art Bears, N ...
(37) – drums, processing *Tess (38) – voice *Rebby Sharp (39) – fiddle Sources:
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Recording notes

*(1) recorded at the corner church, June 1998 *(2) recorded on the street in Tokyo, September 1998 *(3) recorded at Lagerhaus, Bremen, June 1997 *(4) recorded at the Tom Cora Memorial Concert, May 1998 *(5) recorded at Water Music, Hoboken, November 1990 *(6) recorded at Fish Made Studio, Zürich and Bendy Thing & Spaciouser Spoot Studios, Seattle *(7,18) recorded at Bisi Studio, Brooklyn, Summer 1983 *(8) recorded at Mescaluna, Nishinomiya & Polarity, Tokyo, November 1998 *(9) recorded at Sound of Music Studios, Richmond (VA) *(11) recorded at Noise, New York, 1987 *(12) recorded at Studio Cactus, Marseille, September 1997 *(13) recorded at Ironwood Studios, Seattle, November 1998 *(14) recorded at WKCR-FM, New York, April 1983 *(15) recorded live at the Knitting Factory, New York City, 1990 *(16) recorded at G.O.K. Sound, Tokyo, Summer 1995 *(17) recorded live at Bard College, May 1993 *(19) recorded at Thierry Azam's home, April 1998 *(20,22) recorded at Harold Dessau Studio, New York, 1990 *(21) recorded live on VPRO Radio 3, La Stampa, August 1991 *(23) recorded live in Ohio, 1981 *(24) recorded at Division Studio, San Francisco, September 1998 *(25) recorded at Roulette, New York City, November 1998 *(26) recorded live in Amsterdam, 1998 *(27) recorded at CBGB's, New York City, April 1985 *(28) recorded at 6/8 Studios, New York, February 1997 *(29) recorded at Studio V-Zlin, May 1997 *(30) recorded at Studio CCAM, Vand'Oeuvre-les-Nancy, 1989 *(32) recorded at Manda-la 2, Tokyo, March 1989 *(33) recorded 1998 *(34) recorded 1996–1998 *(35) recorded June 1998 *(37) recorded live at Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, March 1998 *(38) recorded at Virginia's, 1998 *(39) recorded at Sunrise, Switzerland, Christmas 1983 Sources:
Discogs Discogs ( ; short for " discographies") is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in ''T ...
, Tom Cora discography.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hallelujah, Anyway - Remembering Tom Cora 1999 compilation albums Various artists albums Avant-garde jazz compilation albums Experimental music compilation albums Free improvisation albums Albums produced by Fred Frith Tzadik Records compilation albums Albums recorded at WKCR-FM