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| 1. | Incident on South Street
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| 2. | Harlem Nocturne
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| 3. | Do the Wrong Thing
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| 4. | Au Contrarie Arto
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| 5. | Well, You Needn't
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| 6. | Ballad
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| 7. | Wangling
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| 8. | Conquest of Rar
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| 9. | Demented
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| 10. | I Remember Coney Island
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| 11. | Fatty Walks
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| 12. | Epistrophy
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| 13. | You Haunt Me
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Jazz
Recorded at CBS Recording Studios, New York, New York between July 21 & 29, 1980
The Lounge Lizards
Anton Fier - Drums
Arto Lindsay - Guitar
Evan Lurie - Keyboards
John Lurie - Saxophone
Steve Picollo - Bass
Though history has largely relegated them to a blind corner of artsy fusion for people who don't like real jazz, the Lounge Lizards still sound pretty terrific today. The ironic fake jazz label they chose at the time doesn't fit today; this is more real than a lot of what's marketed as jazz right now.
Thelonious Monk is the clearest influence, with covers of his "Well You Needn't" and "Epistrophy" among the highlights. Guitarist Arto Lindsay sometimes dominates the proceedings with his atonal yet forcefully rhythmic guitar, but saxophonist John Lurie and his pianist brother Evan, who between them wrote most of the album, are usually in the spotlight. The noir "Incident on South Street" is something of an art-jazz standard now, but the quality of the album is consistently high, with several other tracks reaching the same musical heights.
* Don Puluse - Mixing
* Fran Pelzman - Photography
* Frank Laico - Engineer
* Peter Saville - Design
* Ted Brosman - Engineer
* Teo Macero - Producer
One might be forgiven for mistaking the Lounge Lizards' debut album for a traditional jazz release at a glance, what with the two Thelonious Monk covers and the participation of producer Teo Macero (who had previously worked with such heavyweights as Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck and Ella Fitzgerald, to name just a few). No, while there's definitely great respect shown here for the jazz tradition, the members are obviously coming at it from different backgrounds -- most especially guitarist Arto Lindsay, whose occasional atonal string scraping owes far more to his experience in New York City's no wave scene than to quote unquote traditional jazz. In fact, the two aforementioned Monk covers seem a strange choice when you actually hear the band, which has more in common with sonic experimentalists like Ornette Coleman or Sun Ra. That's not to say that this is too experimental; saxophonist and lead Lizard John Lurie knows when to blow noise and when to blow melody, and ex-Feelies drummer Anton Fier manages to infuse a good rock feel into the drum parts even when he's playing incredibly complex rhythms. The end result is a album that neatly straddle both worlds, whether it's the noir-ish "Incident on South Street," the art-funk of "Do the Wrong Thing," or the thrash-bebop found in "Wangling"."
---Sean Carruthers, All Music Guide |
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