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My friend's teen has recently gotten herself into Ikue Mori, a terrific Japanese avant garde drummer. She introduced her friends to it at a party, and now they're combing the Tzadik website looking for more music to explore.

Well, from the google search it would appear Zorn is really Tzadik. So I guess that clears things right up.

Hell, it has Clarinets in it and I used to play one

You might not appreciate the way it is played by them but yea, I love reed instruments, and I bought myself a Clarinet and have been wanting to learn to play it.

Also out of curiosity, have you ever listened to John Zorn, who is probably more famous for noise projects, but also does some really cool Klezmer-Jazz music?

Even in the noise projects I think he primarily plays Saxophone.

Imagine if artists couldn't or wouldn't be tied to a particular label by exclusive contract anymore.

Well, what if there was a change to contract law that limited the number of years a record comany could have exclusivity, and the number of albums a company could reject. (One way labels stick it to artists is by never accepting an album for distribution, and indefinately keeping a band in limbo, regardless of how good the music is. Meanwhile the bills keep piling up.)

Also, what if copyright was changed so that the rights revert to the artist/s after so many years?

I mean, where else is little Cindy going to go for that latest Brittney Spears record?

You mean little Cindy isn't interested in listening to John Zorn?

or really hate freedom.

This reminds me of A patriot's guide to debating the war on terror for some reason.

I'll tell you what. I won't be happy until they execute spammers by removing all of their organs one at a time live on television. On Fox! (Right after The Simpsons.) I won't be happy even when I eat chocolate or even if John Zorn were to put the entire Tzadik cataloge on emusic.com.

However, there is a difference between having the feds regulate communications, and streamlining the legal system for civil action against commercial entities who abuse the system (and commit fraud) to such an extent that it renders the communication medium useless.

Actually, the fraud alone should be enough. If spammers were just required (and nailed to the wall if they didn't) not to forge their headers so that we could effectively filter then I would be happy.

(But lots of experimental music would help too.)

Well, you've been moderated "funny", although you could be serious. Some of John Zorn's works are definately easy listening-ish (The Gift). Just don't expect Painkiller or Naked City to be. You should listen to John Zorn anyway. Ah, and some essential recordings for you.

If you like modern, beats and electronic oriented jazz, you should check out Nils Petter Molvaer.

Well, you've been moderated "funny", although you could be serious. Some of John Zorn's works are definately easy listening-ish (The Gift). Just don't expect Painkiller or Naked City to be. You should listen to John Zorn anyway. Ah, and some essential recordings for you.

If you like modern, beats and electronic oriented jazz, you should check out Nils Petter Molvaer.

Well, you've been moderated "funny", although you could be serious. Some of John Zorn's works are definately easy listening-ish (The Gift). Just don't expect Painkiller or Naked City to be. You should listen to John Zorn anyway. Ah, and some essential recordings for you.

If you like modern, beats and electronic oriented jazz, you should check out Nils Petter Molvaer.

some bands do this with their live music -- unfortunately it's almost always one of the many jam bands, (like phish, medeski martin & wood, et al) but some other bands -- including electronic acts, like Coil vary their live performances of pieces GREATLY -- to the point where it might even be called a different song.

Frank Zappa did something quite similar with is bands: he would use hand signals to change a performance of a piece and make a rock song into a reggae song or a jazzier piece or what-have-you. In some ways, John Zorn's "game pieces" use this same method of improvisation (although Zorn's "games" really are games: there is a competition and winners are picked at the end of the performance.

Of course they're corrupt. The moral bankruptcy of the mainstream music industry is only too well documented.

I say that it doesn't matter. What's really corrupt is slickly packaged, trite, utterly empty rubbish that passes for music. There's no law against that, and there shouldn't be.

The music industry are scavengers, cleaning up on second handers who don't want to listen to music they like so much as music they are told that other people like. That they ruthlessly exploit musicians is another topic.

My suggestion is that if you don't like what you hear on the radio, turn it off, and support the small labels trying to change the way the business operates; e.g. Chris Cutler's Recommended Records, John Zorn's Tzadik, or Robert Fripp's DGM. That all of the above are run by world class veteran musicians should be no surprise - they've been there, done that, got the t-shirt and the shaft.