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Mimesis Thirteen

Artist - Track - Album

Fred Firth - The Boy Beats the Ram - Gravity

Tortoise - Ten-Day Interval - TNT

Cremation Lily - Received Today At 3:34AM (Escape 1999) - Lovers Against the Rocks

Nisennenmondai - #1 - #N/A

Ash Koosha - I Feel That - GUUD

Matmos - Very Large Green Triangles (Edit)

Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (Matmos Edit) - Dog in the Fog

Natural Snow Buildings - Dance of the Moon and the Sun - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun

Natural Snow Buildings - Rain Serenade - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun

Edzayawa - Adesa - Projection One

Clarence Clarity - Buck-Toothed Particle Smashers - No Now

Actress - R.I.P. - R.I.P.

Jon Hassell - Blue Period - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street

Ben Zimmerman - For Mimi pt. 1 - The Baltika Years

Ben Zimmerman - For Mimi pt. 2 - The Baltika Years

Ben Zimmerman - For Mimi pt. 3 - The Baltika Years

Shankar Jaikishan - Typewriter Tip, Tip Tip - Bombay Talkie

Edgar Varese - Hyperprism - Déserts · Ecuatorial · Hyperprism

Sun Ra Quartet - When There is No Sun - New Steps

Floating Points - Silhouettes (I, II & III) - Elaenia

Actress - N.E.W. - R.I.P.

Ken Ishi - Endless Season - Jelly Tones

Image: Alex Katz - Ann Lauterbach from Face of the Poet, 1978

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Jazziversaries February 17

Fred Frith (guitar) - 1949 :: Many happy jazziversary returns to Fred Frith Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith   is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor.v Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew.

He has collaborated with a number of prominent musicians, including Robert Wyatt, Derek Bailey, The Residents, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn, Brian Eno, Mike Patton, Lars Hollmer, Bill Laswell,Iva Bittová, Jad Fair, the ARTE Quartett and Bob Ostertag. He has also composed several long works, including Traffic Continues (1996, performed 1998 by Frith and Ensemble Modern) and Freedom in Fragments (1993, performed 1999 by Rova Saxophone Quartet).

Frith produces most of his own music, and has also produced many albums by other musicians, including Curlew, The Muffins, Etron Fou Leloublan and Orthotonics.

Frith is the subject of Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel’s award-winning 1990 documentary film Step Across the Border. He also appears in the Canadian documentary Act of God, which is about the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. Frith has contributed to a number of music publications, including New Musical Express and Trouser Press, and has conducted improvising workshops across the world. Frith’s career spans over three decades and he appears on over 400 albums. He still performs actively throughout the world. Currently Frith is Professor of Composition in the Music Department at Mills College in Oakland, California. He lives in the United States with his wife, German photographer Heike Liss, and their children, Finn Liss (born 1991) and Lucia Liss (born 1994).

Frith was awarded the 2008 Demetrio Stratos Prize for his career achievements in experimental music. The prize was established in 2005 in honour of experimental vocalist Demetrio Stratos, of the Italian group Area, who died in 1979. In 2010 Frith received an honorary doctorate from the University of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England in recognition of his contribution to music.

Buddy DeFranco (clarinet) - 1923 -2014 ::  Boniface Ferdinand Leonard “Buddy” DeFranco, was an American jazz clarinet player.

DeFranco began his professional career just as swing music and big bands — many of which were led by clarinetists like Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman — were fading in popularity. While most jazz clarinet players did not adapt to this change, DeFranco successfully continued to play clarinet exclusively, and was one of the few bebop clarinetists.

In 1950, DeFranco spent a year with the famous Count Basie Septet. His small combo in the early 1950s included jazz modernist Sonny Clark on the piano and guitarist Tal Farlow. He was bandleader of the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 1966 to 1974. He has also performed with Gene Krupa, Charlie Barnet, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson and many others, and has released dozens of albums as a leader.

Charlie Spivak (trumpet) 1907-1982 :: Charlie Spivak  was an American trumpeter and bandleader, best known for his big band in the 1940s. He learned to play trumpet when he was ten years old and played in his high school band, going on to work with local groups before joining Johnny Cavallaro's orchestra.

He played with Paul Specht's band for most of 1924 to 1930, then spent time with Ben Pollack (1931–1934), the brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey(1934–1935), and Ray Noble (1935– 1936). He played on "Solo Hop" in 1935 by Glenn Miller and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. He spent 1936 and 1937 mostly working as a studio musician with Gus Arnheim, Glenn Miller, Raymond Scott's radio orchestra, and others, followed by periods with Bob Crosby (1938), Tommy Dorsey (1938–1939), and Jack Teagarden (1939).

Finally, with the encouragement and financial backing of Glenn Miller, he formed his own band in November 1939. Though it failed within a year, he tried again shortly afterwards, this time taking over the existing band of Bill Downer and making a success of it. Spivak's band was one of the most successful in the 1940s, and survived until 1959. He scouted top trumpeter Paul Fredricks (formerly of Alvino Rey's Orchestra) just as Fredricks left the service at the end of World War II, in 1946. Fredricks was instrumental in the band's success in the coming years as it reached its peak.

Spivak's experience playing with jazz musicians had little effect on his own band's style, which was straight dance music, made up mainly of ballads and popular tunes. Spivak himself (known as "Cheery, Chubby Charlie") had been noted for his trumpet's sweet tone and his strength for playing lead parts, rather than for any improvisational ability.

Noble "Thin Man" Watts (saxophone) 1926-2004 :: Noble Watts was an American blues, jump blues and rhythm and blues saxophonist. He primarily played tenor saxophone. Allmusic journalist Bill Dahl considered Watts "one of the most incendiary [...] fire-breathing tenor sax honkers" of the 1950s.

Watts studied violin and trumpet in his youth, later switching to sax. He gained musical training at Florida A&M, where he played in the school's marching band with future saxophonist Cannonball Adderley. Hired to play with The Griffin Brothers after college, Watts began his professional career. During the 1950s, he would work with Lionel Hampton, Dinah Washington, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers, and others. He also appeared on American Bandstand with Johnny Mathis in 1957, and performed in the house band at a Harlem club owned by boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.

Watts's career would eventually decline by the mid-1960s. He played lounge music in parts of Florida before being "rediscovered" by record producer Bob Greenlee. He made a minor comeback in 1987, and worked for Greenlee's record label.

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"No Birds" by Fred Firth