in the search for musical ideas for David's Funk Wars irediscovered this amazing track from the Lounge Lizards.... you will likely have to play it a few times to catch the lyrics.... if you have ever been in a band, and especially if you have ever been the person organizing a rehearsal/mtg whatever you will love this. gets into a searing funk groove with an amazing elephant trombone solo. one o...
John LurieBack in 1989, Jon Lurie and his band The Lounge Lizards released an album called "Voice of Chunk" which Lurie dubbed, somewhat disingenuously, "Fake Jazz". It is a fabulous album. It's mostly jazzy, but has guitar, mostly instrumental, but has one track with singing, and a hint of Klezmer. An interviewer asked Lurie about the term "Fake Jazz". Lurie said:"I've never had any respect fo...
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in the search for musical ideas for David's Funk Wars irediscovered this amazing track from the Lounge Lizards.... you will likely have to play it a few times to catch the lyrics.... if you have ever been in a band, and especially if you have ever been the person organizing a rehearsal/mtg whatever you will love this. gets into a searing funk groove with an amazing elephant trombone solo. one o...
John LurieBack in 1989, Jon Lurie and his band The Lounge Lizards released an album called "Voice of Chunk" which Lurie dubbed, somewhat disingenuously, "Fake Jazz". It is a fabulous album. It's mostly jazzy, but has guitar, mostly instrumental, but has one track with singing, and a hint of Klezmer. An interviewer asked Lurie about the term "Fake Jazz". Lurie said:"I've never had any respect fo...
John Lurie was boycotting record labels and standard PR channels. He had flown into Denver with the express purpose of an interview with the music director of KUCB about the then new Lounge Lizards CD "Voice of Chunk". When he arrived at the station there were only two of us there: the DJ on-duty and myself. I was the production director. We decided to make a go of it. We went back to the stu