#2253: But Is It Jazz?

New Sounds | May 24, 2010

It’s music of a jazz sort on this New Sounds program featuring uncategorizable music by Australia’s trio The Necks. This threesome (piano/organ, bass, drums) is driven by hypnotic, deceptively simple riffs and motifs, which on their latest effort, “Drive-By”, is one epic improvised work, with color and accents to a pulse, over an hour in duration. Hear a portion of it, along with the idiosyncratic music of the Lounge Lizards, and the so-called acid jazz of Medeski, Martin & Wood on this edition of New Sounds.

PROGRAM # 2253, "But Is It Jazz?" (First aired Tues. 2/24/04)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
The Necks	Drive By	Excerpts [22:30] & [3:30]	ReR #NECKS3 www.rerusa.com*
Lounge Lizards	New Sounds Live, Merkin Hall, 4/12/92	Uncle Jerry/Sex with Monster, Vol. 2 [13:00]	"Uncle Jerry" is on the CD "Voice Of Chunk". Available for purchase at Amazon.com* That and other CDs by The Lounge Lizards are available in stores** or online. www.strangeandbeautiful.com*
Medeski Martin & Wood	Friday Afternoon In The Universe	Last Chance To Dance Trance (Perhaps) [7:30]	Gramavision/Rykodisc #79503** www.rykodisc.com*
Medeski Martin & Wood	Shack-Man	Dracula, excerpt [1:00]	Gramavision/Rykodisc #79514. www.rykodisc.com*

*, ** Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page

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