Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach
Wayne Horvitz, Marc
Ribot, Dave Douglas, Guy Klucevsek, Kramer, Erik
Friedlander's Chimera, Joey
Baron, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Medeski,
Martin and Wood, Elliot Sharp, Marie McAuliffe, Mike Patton, Lloyd
Cole and Robert Quine, Anthony Coleman/Selfhaters, Yuka Honda and Sean
Lennon, Shelley Hirsch, Bill
Frisell and Eyvind Kang pay tribute to Burt Bacharach.
Executive Producer: John Zorn
The first album in Tzadik's
tribute series to great Jewish composers, Great Jewish
Music: Burt Bacharach could also be called The New York Downtown
Scene plays Burt. The lineup of artists and variety of takes on the
Bacharach tunes is really incredible. Organ funk trio Medeski,
Martin and Wood cover "Do You Know The Way to San Jose?", Dave Douglas,
Scott Robison and Uri Caine play a phenomenal jazz arrangement of "Wives
and Lovers", Yuka Honda and Sean Lennon do a beautiful (maybe sarcastic?)
version of "The Look of Love", and guitarist Marc
Ribot does two versions of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", first he rocks
out, then he takes the piece in a haunting solo number. In addition, both
Bill Frisell and
Joey Baron do beautiful
solo renditions of Bacharach tunes.
Even after the novelty of hearing "those weird avant-garde
people playing Burt Bacharach" wears off, the album is a joy to listen
to, with a few tracks that have real staying power. Shelly Hirsch's annoyingly
post modern rendition of "Hello Pussycat" aside, this is a great album,
a real tribute to the diversity and quality of modern musical talent out there.
Click here for Zorn's liner
notes.
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