IN THESE GREAT TIMES
John Schott
Tzadik, 1997A virtuoso guitarist and member of both Junk Genius and TJ Kirk, Schott is joined on his first album as leader by metropolitan opera tenor John Horton Murray, Trevor Dunn on bass and Kenny Wolleson on drums. This ambitious song cycle, recalling the exotic precision of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Creatively mixes contemporary classical techniques with improvisation, using Yiddish and German texts by Kafka, Kraus and Glatshteyn.