Curious if anyone has heard this?
I was happy to see it at the local shop and pulled it up to the cash register. The kid behind was excited to see it too, but let me know that all he had heard on the Tzadik label was just noise to him - "Mike Patton, Buckethead, Trevor Dunn" ... what'd he expect! I assured him that Medeski has played the Zorn stuff all pretty straight even in the Electric Masada and supplied much swing and groove.
Well I phoned the store after a preview drive to alert him of his spot-on call. Luckily some chump at eBay picked it up w/ a Buy It Now sos I didn't have to chuck it out the window after all. Aside from some shaking goat hooves and the last couple of tunes I found nothing of merit whatsoever. I think I'm now officially tired of Zorn's schtick and his regurgitated melodies.
Too much paraquat in the last batch at the shack, maybe?