There are moments of interest, mostly from Zorn, who gets bizarre, inbrass sounds out of his saxophone (tracks four and six). However, there are also stretches of relative nothingness which bore rather than enthrall. Thus, like most albums of improvised music, Improvised Music New York 1981 is a mixed bag, worth hearing for fans of the musicians and genre but unlikely to interest anyone else. Sidenote: this record was performed by Material, but for some legal reason the band name couldn't appear on the cover.
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