Lacrosse (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Lacrosse
Type = live
Longtype =
Artist = John Zorn


Released = 2000-01-25
Recorded = June 1977–1978-06-10
Genre = Avant-garde
Length = 101:53
Label = Tzadik
Producer =
Reviews = *amg|id=10:7mm1z81a2yv8~T0|rating|2|5
Last album = "Live in Middleheim 1999"
(1999)
This album = "Lacrosse"
(2000)
Next album = "Live in Sevilla 2000"
(2000)

"Lacrosse" is a double live album by John Zorn. It is made up of different takes his early game piece, "Lacrosse". The first disc is from WKCR in June 1978 where Mark Abbott, Polly Bradfield, Eugene Chadbourne, and LaDonna Smith and Zorn recorded 6 different takes. Takes 3, 4 and 6 were originally released on the Parachute Records double LP "School" (1978). The second disc is the original recording of "Lacrosse" which was made by Eugene Chadbourne, Henry Kaiser, Bruce Ackley, and Zorn (dubbed "Twins") in San Francisco, California in June 1977.

"Lacrosse" was originally released in 1997 as a part of the "The Parachute Years" Box Set and then released on its own in 2000. [ [http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=73161-2 Tzadik catalogue] ] .

Track listing

*"Disc one"
#"Take 3" – 23:06
#"Take 4" – 19:06
#"Take 6" – 6:20
#"Take 1" – 7:01
#"Take 2" – 8:08
#"Take 5" – 8:16
*"Disc two"
#"Twins Version" – 29:56

:"All compositions by John Zorn."

Personnel

*John Zorn – alto saxophone, clarinet, soprano saxophone, liner notes
*Mark Abbott – electronics
*Bruce Ackley – soprano saxophone, liner notes
*Allen Asaf – engineer
*Polly Bradfield – violin, viola, electric violin
*Eugene Chadbourne – acoustic guitar, dobro, electric guitar, twelve string guitar, liner notes, tiple, six string bass, twelve string acoustic guitar
*Henry Kaiser – electric guitar
*LaDonna Smith – violin, viola
*Davey Williams – banjo, electric guitar, hollow body guitar

References