Wednesday Wisdom: HBO is replaying the "Painting With John" series. I happened to turn it on just as he said my favorite quote from it: "Life is this incredibly wonderful thing. I'm sorry they didn't notice."
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The Lounge Lizards: Live From the Drunken Boat [Europa, 1983]
Divested not only of fifth columnist Arto Lindsay but of all the guitar's vulgar "rock"-tinged associations, the Lizards get beau ideal Teo Macero to produce a studio album in live drag. They sound like an arty jazz combo who've landed a month at a pretentious cocktail lounge in Minneapolis, or Brussels. Sometimes they gear their originals to what they deem the declasse ambience of the place, other times they say fuck it and lay down the simplified Cecil Taylor dearest to their hearts. They're better when they lower themselves. And they don't make it past Saturday night. B
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWJ35oa0fd8&ab_channel=TejaswiniManjunatha
Queen of All Ears is the fourth and final studio album by the American band the Lounge Lizards, released in 1998.
JazzTimes wrote that "the music relies heavily on group improvisation in the highly colored riffs and patterns that form the basis of most of the proceedings." Esquire determined that Lurie's "alto and soprano saxophoning has become something rather nice: plaintive, searching, Colemanesque, quite at home (soaring) in the upper registers." The Boston Globe opined that "New York's fringe-crawlers mature with impressionistic etchings of chamber jazz and world music."
The Guardian stated that "the Lounge Lizards roll from moments of prayer-like intensity—Coltranesque flourishes over African pulsing—to Charles Mingus doing the music for scary Czech cartoons, to blasting Dragnet rumbles." - Wikipedia
No Pain for Cakes is the second studio album by the American jazz band the Lounge Lizards, released in 1987. John Lurie sang on the album.
The album was recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios, in Queens, New York. Marc Ribot contributed to No Pain for Cakes.
The Globe and Mail called the album "mature and vivid music, always ingenious and sometimes brilliant." The Windsor Star wrote that the Lounge Lizards "sound as if their music is written by a contemporary Kurt Weill for a Fellini movie without them ever taking their tongues out of their cheeks." The Christian Science Monitor deemed No Pain for Cakes "zany weirdness and outrageous eclecticism—avant pop/jazz/rock." - Wikipedia
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnjxope4KmM&list=PLDs79PmweGB8LMNgmzXIwQFuXS7lRiUgM&index=1
Our #SongOfTheDay is "My Clown's on Fire" by The Lounge Lizards, an NYC-based avant-garde jazz band that put out some remarkable albums in the '80s and the '90s. It's kinda chaotic, but in a good way.
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Pleasant milestones from the year's journey through music appreciation, 2023.
#LoungeLizards - "Queen of All Ears"
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