Living Daylights

Living Daylights: Electric Rosary

by Mark Corroto
September 1, 2000

Like so much that is New York (insert your own NYC gripe here) the late 80s early 90s avant scene turned to arty, less accessible music once it gained popularity. The Downtown attitude was/is if the multitudes dig it, it’s time to change. The fun that was the Knitting Factory scene has devolved into serious music making (read boring). Bill Frisell and Wayne Horvitz fled NY for Oregon. We’re lucky for two things, Tonic (a club on the lower lower ...

Living Daylights: Electric Rosary

by Glenn Astarita
September 1, 2000

Electric Rosary is an endearing new jazz-based release from Seattle denizens; saxophonist Jessica Lurie, bassist Arne Livingston and drummer Dale Fanning while special guest guitarist Bill Frisell lends his estimable talents on several tracks. Known as “Living Daylights” the band combines slick groove-inspired rhythms amid Fanning’s resilient drumming with tinges of Eastern Europe and Middle Eastern style motifs on the opener “Pike Or Pine” and other compositions. With “Get Bone-A-Fide”, Fanning implements a New Orleans shuffle beat amid the trio’s ...

Living Daylights: Electric Rosary

by Glenn Astarita
September 1, 2000

Electric Rosary is an endearing new jazz-based release from Seattle denizens; saxophonist Jessica Lurie, bassist Arne Livingston and drummer Dale Fanning while special guest guitarist Bill Frisell lends his estimable talents on several tracks. Known as “Living Daylights” the band combines slick groove-inspired rhythms amid Fanning’s resilient drumming with tinges of Eastern Europe and Middle Eastern style motifs on the opener “Pike Or Pine” and other compositions. With “Get Bone-A-Fide”, Fanning implements a New Orleans shuffle beat underneath the trio’s ...

LAUAN RECORDS INTRODUCES MIRACLE ORCHESTRA, RAY'S MUSIC EXCHANGE, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS ON THREE SETS VOLUME THREE

Source: All About Jazz

BOULDER, CO (July 26, 2001) -- THREE SETS VOLUME 3 is the newest installment of the acclaimed THREE SETS series on Lauan Records (LEW-On), “The Jamband Label."

For THREE SETS VOLUME 3, Lauan has again assembled sets of three rapidly rising presences on the jamband front: MIRACLE ORCHESTRA from Boston, RAY'S MUSIC EXCHANGE from Cincinnati and THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, out of Seattle. National release is set for Oct. 30, 2001.

MIRACLE ORCHESTRA features Geoff Scott's guitar and Jared Sims' saxes ...
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