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Cobra (album)

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Cobra is a double album featuring a live and studio performance of John Zorn's improvisational game piece, Cobra recorded in 1985 and 1986 and released on the Hathut label in 1987. [1]

26 relations: AllMusic, Anthony Coleman, Arto Lindsay, Avant-garde music, Bill Frisell, Bob James (musician), Bobby Previte, Christian Marclay, Cobra (Zorn), Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2, David Weinstein (musician), Elliott Sharp, Game piece (music), Guy Klucevsek, Hathut Records, Improvisation, J. A. Deane, John Zorn, John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory, John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Spillane (album), The Big Gundown (album), Tzadik Records, Wayne Horvitz, Zeena Parkins.

AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Anthony Coleman

Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955) 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.

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Arto Lindsay

Arthur Morgan "Arto" Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer.

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Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of experimentation or innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.

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Bill Frisell

William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American guitarist, composer and arranger.

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Bob James (musician)

Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer.

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Bobby Previte

Bobby Previte (born July 16, 1951 in Niagara Falls, New York) is a drummer, composer, and bandleader.

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Christian Marclay

Christian Ernest Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer.

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Cobra (Zorn)

Cobra is an unpublished but recorded and frequently performed musical composition by John Zorn that was conceived as a system with very detailed rules but with no pre-conceived sequence of events, or game piece, for a group of musical improvisors and a prompter.

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Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2

Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2 is a performance of John Zorn's improvisational game piece, Cobra.

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David Weinstein (musician)

David Weinstein (born 1954 in Chicago) is an American musician and composer.

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Elliott Sharp

Elliott Sharp (born March 1, 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American contemporary classical composer, multi-instrumentalist, and performer.

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Game piece (music)

Game piece is a concept of experimental music having its roots with composers Iannis Xenakis, Christian Wolff, John Zorn and Mathius Shadow-Sky.

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Guy Klucevsek

Guy Klucevsek (born February 26, 1947) is an American-born accordionist and composer.

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Hathut Records

Hathut Records is a Swiss record company and label founded by Werner Xavier Uehlinger in 1974 that specializes in jazz and classical music.

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Improvisation

Improvisation is creating or performing something spontaneously or making something from whatever is available.

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J. A. Deane

J.A. Deane is a musician, performing sometimes on trombone, but more often on synthesizers and live, real-time sampler.

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John Zorn

John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres, including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music.

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John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory

John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory is a performance of John Zorn's improvisational game piece, Cobra, performed at the Knitting Factory in 1992.

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John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94

John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94 is a live performance of John Zorn's improvisational game piece, Cobra recorded in Tokyo in 1994 featuring Japanese musicians and instruments.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a private research university and space-grant institution located in Troy, New York, with two additional campuses in Hartford and Groton, Connecticut.

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Spillane (album)

Spillane is an album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn, composed of three file-card pieces, as well as a work for voice, string quartet and turntables.

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The Big Gundown (album)

The Big Gundown is an album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn.

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Tzadik Records

Tzadik Records is a record label in New York City that specializes in avant-garde and experimental music.

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Wayne Horvitz

Wayne Horvitz (born 1955) is an American composer, keyboardist and record producer He came to prominence in the Downtown scene of 1980s and '90s New York City, noted for working with John Zorn's Naked City among others.

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Zeena Parkins

Zeena Parkins is an American harpist active in free improvisation and jazz.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_(album)

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