More News for Lulu is the second album of hard bop

Hard bop

Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz which incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano...

 compositions performed by John Zorn

John Zorn

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...

, George Lewis

George Lewis (trombonist)

George E. Lewis is a trombone player, composer, and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians since 1971, and is a pioneer of computer music.- Biography :Lewis graduated from Yale University with a...

 and Bill Frisell

Bill Frisell

William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...

. Like the previous News for Lulu

News for Lulu (album)

News for Lulu is an album of hard bop compositions performed by John Zorn, George Lewis and Bill Frisell. The album features tunes by Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Freddie Redd and Sonny Clark recorded in the studio and live at the Willislau Jazz Festival. The original cover photograph features the...

it features tunes by Kenny Dorham

Kenny Dorham

McKinley Howard Dorham was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians, but he never received the kind of attention from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did...

, Hank Mobley

Hank Mobley

Henry Mobley was an American hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz...

, Freddie Redd

Freddie Redd

Freddie Redd is an American hard bop pianist and composer.His greatest success came in the late 1950s in the play and movie The Connection, in which he both played and acted in New York City, London, and Paris. He also played on the soundtrack album...

 and Sonny Clark

Sonny Clark

Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.-Biography:...

 but also contains with one tune each by Misha Mengelberg

Misha Mengelberg

Misha Mengelberg is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961.-Biography:...

 and Big John Patton. The album was recorded live in Paris and Basel. It was released in 1992 on the Swiss HatHUT Record label.

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow is an American jazz commentator, known for many contributions to the Allmusic website, for writing ten books on jazz and for reviewing jazz recordings for over 30 years.-Biography:...

 state "The music swings in its own fashion and, although it tugs at the boundaries of the bop tradition, it mostly stays within its borders. Bill Frisell, operating as the entire rhythm section, is a wonder as usual. Recommended, as is the first volume News for Lulu.

Track listing

1. "Blue Minor I" (Clark) - 6:04
2. "Hank's Other Tune" (Mobley) - 6:21
3. "News For Lulu" (Clark) - 5:26
4. "Gare Guillemins" (Mengelberg) - 3:47
5. "Minor Swing" (Patton) - 5:40
6. "KD's Motion/Windmill" (Dorham) - 5:02
7. "Funk In Deep Freeze" (Mobley) - 4:36
8. "Eastern Incident" (Clark) - 5:58
9. "Lotus Blossom" (Dorham) - 4:15
10. "Melanie" (Redd) - 6:40
11. "Ole" (Redd) - 5:01
12. "Blue Minor II" (Clark) - 5:04
13. "Peckin' Time" (Mobley) - 3:29
14. "Blues, Blues, Blues" (Redd) - 4:42
15. "Melody For C" (Clark) - 5:46
    • Tracks 1-7 recorded live by Radio France at the Maison de la Radio, Paris on January 19, 1989. Tracks 8-15 recorded live by Peter Pfister at Stadttheater Basel, Switzerland on January 18, 1989

Personnel

• John Zorn
  John Zorn
  John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...
  
  : alto saxophone
• George Lewis
  George Lewis (trombonist)
  George E. Lewis is a trombone player, composer, and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians since 1971, and is a pioneer of computer music.- Biography :Lewis graduated from Yale University with a...
  
  : trombone
• Bill Frisell
  Bill Frisell
  William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...
  
  : guitar