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About Me

Eric Dolphy’s improvisation on ’God Bless the Child’

- one of my favourite performances ever:

My name is Jack Phoenix . . . I am a musician and writer . . Under another name, and in a previous life, I made recordings as a guest artist for Holistic, DC, FatCat & We Love You, as well as for my own label Zinc Stoat . . .Recorded highlights include: three tracks (Bula, Ear Fluff, & Sweet Cakes) with Pnu Riff for Gilles Peterson’s BBC Radio 1 Worldwide Show (Holistic, 1998). I also co-wrote & performed on 4 tracks with O.H Krill on the albumThe Krill Papers (DC Recordings, 2000). My album Call of the Wild (Zinc Stoat, 2000) featured Max Brennan, Ken Campbell and three of his dogs. I played soprano sax on the track Camel Spit for Stromba (FatCat, 2005) . .I co-wrote (and played piano, soprano saxophone & Fender Rhodes piano on) the tracks Sunshine and Zia for The Bees’ Mercury Award nominated first album Sunshine Hit Me (We Love You - 2000). The album is listed in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . Apparently.I have also colloborated with Ergo Phizmiz .
INFP - "Questor". High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/23/2006
Band Website: frogboy.freeuk.com
Band Members:

jack phoenix, frogboy, rabbi burns, rana limone . . . guests: james nye, max brennan, ken campbell, paul butler, norman king, the neasden anarchist morris dancing octet, the sidney sheldon roof destruction orchestra, the late nina plashwit (marie-jo theriou), canine chorus: max, gertie, the late fred & the late mr chins campbell, some canadian wolves

Influences: off (the top of) my head, and in no particular order . . . : Erik Satie, Charles Ives, Thelonious Sphere Monk, Edgard Varese, Sun Ra, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Vic Hoyland, Olivier Messiaen, Carl Ruggles, John Cage, Charles Mingus, Roland Alphonso, Harry Partch, Gyorgy Ligeti, Colin McPhee, Miles Davis, Scott Bradley, Conlon Nancarrow, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Pierre Boulez, George Gershwin, George Harrison, Lou Harrison, Sadie Harrison, Harry Harrison, Ray Harryhausen, Harrison Birtwistle, Syd Barrett, Keith Jarrett, Arnold Schoenberg, Carl Stalling, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Eartha Kitt, Claude Debussy, Guillaume Dufay, Ivor Cutler, Lalo Schifrin, Colin Muset, Moondog, Jimi Hendrix, Saint-Saens, Thomas Tallis, John Barry, Little Barry, Barry Humphreys, Esther Lamandier, J. S. Bach, Paul Desmond, Spike Jones (and his City Slickers), Hildegaard von Bingen, Bernard Hermann, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Dame Edith Evans, John Taverner, John Tavener, Velvet Underground, Anton Webern, Eric Dolphy, Mark E. Smith, John Martyn, Wim Mertens, Frank Black, Bright Eyes, Blondie, Tom Waits, Bela Bartok, Captain Beefheart, Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Roland Kirk, Sainkho Namchylak, Alberto Ginastera, Abdullah Ibrahim, Arvo Part, Hari Prasad Chausaria, Terry Riley, Iannis Xenakis, Sohrab Uduman, Cinematic Orchestra, Rabi Abu-Khalil, George Mowat Brown, Leonard Rosenman, Joni Mitchell, Philip Glass, Mongo Santamaria, Michael Ny-ny-ny-ny-man, Kaikhosru Sorabji, Henry Mancini, Wolfgang Rihm, Wolfgang Press, Wolfgang Mozart, Dharambir Singh, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Thomas de Hartmann, Kurt Schwitters, Nina Simone, birdsong, running water, frogs . . .
Sounds Like: bells ringing at the bottom of the ocean - a lonely frog singing in a deciduous forest, it's winter - a sparrow with a big hat on chirps on a twig -
Record Label: zinc stoat records / zep tepi productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Sunshine

VentnorBlog has posted up Sunshine - one of the tracks I co-wrote and performed with the Bees for their first album Sunshine Hit Me - which (as I may have mentioned before) was a 2002 Mercury Pri...
Posted by Jack Phoenix on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:39:00 PST

Funnyface

This really amused me. I wish I really did look like Nicholas Tse (who is apparently the closest match by far - but still 37% unlike me). I had only heard of Rupert Everett, Alan Turing and Bruce Will...
Posted by Jack Phoenix on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:35:00 PST

Operation TWAT

I don’t know what set him off this time. Perhaps it was the news of a particularly gruesome murder, or the abduction of children. Perhaps it was the dreadful irony of an Israeli minister threate...
Posted by Jack Phoenix on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:32:00 PST

Lessons of the Tao (I) - Gilding the Lily

Because Chinese signs have multiple meanings which have also fluctuated over time, the Chinese language is difficult to translate into English. One of my favourite translations of the Tao Te Ching - t...
Posted by Jack Phoenix on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:55:00 PST

Ice Cream Newsflash

As part of the government’s strategy for tackling childhood obesity, all ice cream vans will in future have to play appropriate jingles, an advisory study has recommended.At a press conference, ...
Posted by Jack Phoenix on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:10:00 PST

The Secret of Power

All succesful leaders know this - all dictators, prime ministers, cult leaders, popes, marketing consultants, heads of corporations, billionaires, newspaper tycoons, media moguls - they all know this ...
Posted by Jack Phoenix on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:33:00 PST

Item Six

[Large corporate boardroom filled with suited executives] Exec 1: Item six on the agenda: "The Meaning of Life". Now uh, Harry, you've had some thoughts on this. Exec 2: Yeah, I've had a team worki...
Posted by Jack Phoenix on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:16:00 PST

SPLEEN

THE FLOWERS OF SICKNESS: SPLEENmore memories than if I’d lived a thousand years . . a massive chest of drawers {stuffed with bills, poems, love letters, &nbs...
Posted by Jack Phoenix on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:51:00 PST

Vintage Spirit

It's not like the old days when you needed a dark room and a basic knowledge of chemistry. Today, anyone with a half-decent digital camera, an eye for composition, and (maybe) access to a computer ca...
Posted by Jack Phoenix on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:32:00 PST

What makes me laugh

People who aren't funny - they make me laugh.(Especially if they think they are funny.)Here's a couple of things featuring Jeff Goldblum that made me chortle. (He seems to enjoy sending himself up, wh...
Posted by Jack Phoenix on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:42:00 PST