Freakish (Anthony Coleman album)

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Freakish
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Studio album by Anthony Coleman
Released September 29, 2009
Recorded 2009
Genre Jazz
Length58:16
Label Tzadik TZ 7631
Producer Anthony Coleman
Anthony Coleman chronology
Lapidation
(2007) Lapidation2007		Freakish
(2009)		 The End of Summer
(2013) The End of Summer2013

Freakish (subtitled Anthony Coleman Plays Jelly Roll Morton) is a solo album by pianist Anthony Coleman performing compositions by Jelly Roll Morton which was released on the Tzadik label in 2009. [1]

Anthony Coleman American musician

Anthony Coleman is an avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on Cobra, Kristallnacht, The Big Gundown, Archery, and Spillane and helped push modern Jewish music into the 21st century.

Jelly Roll Morton American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Tzadik Records American record label

Tzadik Records is a record label in New York City that specializes in avant-garde and experimental music. The label was established by composer and saxophonist John Zorn in 1995. He is the executive producer of all Tzadik releases. Tzadik is a not-for-profit, cooperative record label.

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In his review for Allmusic, arwulf arwulf states "Coleman's readings of "The Crave," "The Pearls," "Frog-I-More," and "Mr. Jelly Lord" are so intelligently and creatively delivered that anyone with the slightest interest in 20th century music really ought to consider making time for this recital". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Jelly Roll Morton

  1. "Freakish" - 3:40
  2. "Fickle Fay Creep (Soap Suds)" - 5:08
  3. "Buffalo Blues (Mr. Joe)" - 3:41
  4. "Frances (Fat Frances)" - 3:22
  5. "Mr. Jelly Lord" - 4:03
  6. "Mamanita" - 4:44
  7. "Pretty Lil" - 3:57
  8. "The Pearls" - 6:03
  9. "Frog-I-More" - 5:22
  10. "The Crave" - 3:29
  11. "Mama's Got a Baby" - 4:05
  12. "Freakish (Version Two)" - 4:21
  13. "King Porter Stomp" - 6:25

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Tzadik catalogue accessed January 16, 2014
  2. 1 2 arwulf, arwulf. Anthony Coleman – Freakish > Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 16, 2014.
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