Yankees (album)

Not to be confused with Yankee (album).

1983 studio album by Derek Bailey, John Zorn & George Lewis

Yankees

Studio album by

Derek Bailey, John Zorn & George Lewis

Released| 1983
Venue| OAO Studio, Brooklyn
Genre| Avant-garde jazz
Length| 44:21
Label| Celluloid
Producer| Derek Bailey, John Zorn
John Zorn chronology
| Locus Solus
(1983)  | Yankees
(1983)  | The Classic Guide to Strategy
(1983)

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Yankees is an album of improvised music by Derek Bailey, John Zorn and George Lewis. The album was released as an LP by Celluloid in 1983 and was reissued on CD by Celluloid (from a vinyl source) and Charly (from the original master tape). It was the first recorded meeting of John Zorn and Derek Bailey.[1] The two men would later release the album, Harras, with William Parker in 1993. Zorn and Lewis would collaborate further on News for Lulu (1988) and More News for Lulu (1993) with Bill Frisell.

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz| [3]

The AllMusic review by "Blue" Gene Tyranny awarded the album 4 stars calling it "Subtle, droll, hilarious takes on the trivia of baseball sounds".[2]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz observed: "Though a collaborative effort, this more and more feels like a Zorn project. It is one of the great improvisation records of the decade and is a key item in what turned out to be a vintage year... A record to cherish".[3]

## Track listing

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All compositions by Bailey/Lewis/Zorn

1. "City, City, City" – 8:29
2. "The Legend of Enos Slaughter" – 9:27
3. "Who's on First?" – 3:15
4. "On Golden Pond" – 17:49
5. "The Warning Track" – 5:47

## Personnel

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* Derek Bailey – guitar
* George Lewis – trombone
* John Zorn – alto saxophone

## References

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1. ^ European Jazz Network: John Zorn Profile accessed July 21, 2008.
2. ^ a b Tyranny, G. AllMusic Review accessed June 7, 2011
3. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2000). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (5th ed.). Penguin. p. 1613\. ISBN 0-14-051452-X.

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Derek Bailey

Solo albums|

* Solo Guitar
* Aida
* Guitar, Drums 'n' Bass
* Ballads

Collaborations|

* The Topography of the Lungs (with Evan Parker and Han Bennink)
* Improvisations for Cello and Guitar (with Dave Holland)
* First Duo Concert (with Anthony Braxton)
* The London Concert (with Evan Parker)
* Dart Drug (with Jamie Muir)
* Yankees (with John Zorn and George Lewis)
* Harras (with John Zorn and William Parker)
* Mirakle (with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Calvin Weston)

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John Zorn

Discography

Solo albums|

* The Classic Guide to Strategy
* First Recordings 1973
* 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 9
* The Hermetic Organ
* The Hermetic Organ Vol. 2

Game Pieces|

* Lacrosse
* Pool
* Hockey
* Archery
* Cobra
* John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory
* John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94
* New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands
* Xu Feng
* Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2

File Card
Pieces|

* Spillane
* The Bribe
* Elegy
* Kristallnacht
* Godard/Spillane
* Femina
* Dictée/Liber Novus
* Interzone
* Mount Analogue

Cover albums|

* Voodoo
* The Big Gundown
* News for Lulu
* More News for Lulu
* Spy vs Spy

Classical|

* Redbird
* The Book of Heads
* Duras: Duchamp
* Angelus Novus
* Aporias: Requia for Piano and Orchestra
* The String Quartets
* Cartoon S/M
* Madness, Love and Mysticism
* Songs from the Hermetic Theatre
* Chimeras
* Magick
* Mysterium
* Rituals
* From Silence to Sorcery
* The Satyr's Play / Cerberus
* What Thou Wilt
* Lemma
* On the Torment of Saints, the Casting of Spells and the Evocation of Spirits
* The Alchemist
* Fragmentations, Prayers and Interjections
* In the Hall of Mirrors
* Myth and Mythopoeia

Filmworks|

* 1986-1990
* Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill
* 1990–1995
* S&M + More
* Tears of Ecstasy
* 1996
* Cynical Hysterie Hour
* 1997
* Trembling Before G-d
* In the Mirror of Maya Deren
* Secret Lives
* Three Documentaries
* Invitation to a Suicide
* Hiding and Seeking
* Protocols of Zion
* Workingman's Death
* Notes on Marie Menken/Ray Bandar: A Life with Skulls
* The Treatment
* The Rain Horse
* Sholem Aleichem
* Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum
* The Last Supper
* El General
* The Nobel Prizewinner
* City of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond the Infinite

Bar Kokhba|

* Bar Kokhba
* The Circle Maker
* 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 11
* Lucifer: Book of Angels Volume 10

Masada
String Trio|

* The Circle Maker
* 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1
* Azazel: Book of Angels Volume 2
* Haborym: Book of Angels Volume 16

Music Romance|

* Music for Children
* Taboo & Exile
* The Gift

Hemophiliac|

* Hemophiliac
* 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6

Masada
Anniversary|

* Masada Guitars
* Voices in the Wilderness
* The Unknown Masada
* Masada Recital
* Masada Rock

50th Birthday
Celebration|

* Volume 1
* Volume 2
* Volume 3
* Volume 4
* Volume 5
* Volume 6
* Volume 7
* Volume 8
* Volume 9
* Volume 10
* Volume 11
* Volume 12

Book of Angels|

* Astaroth
* Azazel
* Malphas
* Orobas
* Balan
* Moloch
* Asmodeus
* Volac
* Xaphan
* Lucifer
* Zaebos
* Stolas
* Mycale
* Ipos
* Baal
* Haborym
* Caym
* Pruflas
* Abraxas
* Tap
* Alastor
* Adramelech
* Aguares

Moonchild|

* Moonchild: Songs Without Words
* Astronome
* Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
* The Crucible
* Ipsissimus
* Templars: In Sacred Blood
* The Lost Judgment

The Dreamers|

* The Dreamers
* O'o
* Ipos: Book of Angels Volume 14
* A Dreamers Christmas
* Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula

Alhambra|

* Alhambra Love Songs
* In Search of the Miraculous
* The Goddess – Music for the Ancient of Days

Simulacrum|

* Simulacrum
* The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons
* Inferno
* The Painted Bird
* 49 Acts Of Unspeakable Depravity In The Abominable Life And Times Of Gilles De Rais
* The Garden Of Earthly Delights
* Baphomet
* Chaos Magick
* Nostradamus: The Death of Satan

Tributes and
Inspirations|

* IAO
* Enigmata
* Nova Express
* At the Gates of Paradise
* Nosferatu
* Rimbaud
* A Vision in Blakelight
* The Concealed
* Dreamachines
* Shir Hashirim
* Psychomagia
* On Leaves of Grass

Gnostic Trio|

* The Gnostic Preludes
* The Mysteries
* In Lambeth

Collaborations|

* In Memory of Nikki Arane with Eugene Chadbourne
* Locus Solus
* Yankees with Derek Bailey & George E. Lewis
* Deadly Weapons with Steve Beresford, Tonie Marshall & David Toop
* Ganryu Island with Sato Michihiro
* The Art of Memory with Fred Frith
* Zohar with Yamantaka Eye
* Nani Nani with Yamantaka Eye
* Harras with Derek Bailey & William Parker
* Euclid's Nightmare with Bobby Previte
* Weird Little Boy with Trey Spruance, Mike Patton, William Winant & Chris Cochrane
* Downtown Lullaby with Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp and Bobby Previte
* Prelapse with Prelapse
* Buck Jam Tonic with Bill Laswell & Tatsuya Nakamura
* Naninani II with Yamantaka Eye
* The Stone: Issue One with Dave Douglas, Rob Burger, Bill Laswell, Mike Patton & Ben Perowsky
* The Stone: Issue Three with Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson
* The Art of Memory II with Fred Frith
* Late Works with Fred Frith
* @ with Thurston Moore
* Sonic Rivers with George E. Lewis & Wadada Leo Smith

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George Lewis

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.

Studio albums|

* Homage to Charles Parker (1979)
* Yankees (with Derek Bailey and John Zorn, 1983)
* News for Lulu (with John Zorn and Bill Frisell, 1987)
* Slideride (with Ray Anderson, Craig Harris, and Gary Valente, 1994)
* Streaming (with Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell, 2005)
* Sonic Rivers (with Wadada Leo Smith and John Zorn, 2013)

Live albums|

* Elements of Surprise (with Anthony Braxton, 1976)
* Donaueschingen (Duo) 1976 (with Anthony Braxton, 1976)
* More News for Lulu (with John Zorn and Bill Frisell, 1989)

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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