November 28, 2007
A-List
Jazz you like it
Marina Rosenfeld
Wed., Dec. 5, 5:30pm. $3-$6 (free with Penn ID). Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th St. 215.898.7108. www.icaphila.org
Marina Rosenfeld is an avant-garde jazz turntablist in the coolest sense—meaning she messes with the delicate sensibilities of the oh-so-precious dance cognescenti just as much as she tweaks the noses of the turgid jazz snobs who want the genre to stay dry, dusty and dead. As such she walks in the footsteps of John Zorn, the dude who ripped jazz a score of fresh assholes in the ’90s by mixing John Coltrane’s be-bop with Napalm Death’s extreme thrash metal (causing outrage and at least one riot). While in college Rosenfeld invented the Sheer Frost Orchestra, consisting of 17 women playing floor-bound electric guitars with nail polish bottles. In short, like all cool artists, Rosenfeld delights in screwing with heads. Through her vinyl, Rosenfeld quotes everyone from Trane to Marclay to Sonic Youth. Just as DJ Shadow ensures that backpackers are schooled in the Stax back catalog, Rosenfeld lets jazzbos and disco dollies alike know what it’s like to hear the world through John Zorn’s ragged, elephantine and permanently bleeding ears. (Joshua Valocchi)
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