News from Lulu with John Zorn, George Lewis, and Bill Frisell recorded live in 1989, Paris, applying Downtown NY extended techniques to 60s Blue Note jazz pieces with incredible results.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2010 Country: Switzerland Packaging: Cardstock Gatefold Sleeve 3 panels Tracks 1-7 recorded live by Radio France at the Maison de la Radio, Paris on January 19, 1989. Tracks 8-15 recorded live by Peter Pfister at Stadttheater Basel, Switzerland on January 18, 1989. New CD masater 2010 by Peter Pfister.
"In 1987 John Zorn, George Lewis, and Bill Frisell were all members of New York's thriving, conceptually-minded downtown scene. They approached the Blue Note material with a considered artistic agenda - to test its capacity for tolerance of outside techniques, and to critique bop's ethos of individuality, which required many of its practitioners to trade a life of penury and exploitation for the chance to attain individual expression on the bandstand."-Bill Meyer, from the liner notes