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Rob Mazurek

Real Name:
Robert Mazurek
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Born 1966 in Jersey City, NJ, Rob Mazurek has moved to Chicago as a pre-teen and eventually cut his teeth on the city's bop scene. Early on he played with the late pianist Kenny Prince and drummer Yoron Israel, but it was his quartet with drummer George Fludas, bassist John Webber and pianist Randolph Tessler where his skills began to get noticed.
Later, while in Edinburgh as part of an experimental theater piece with actor Kevin McCoy for the city's International Fringe Festival in 1992, Mazurek jammed with local musicians was so warmly received that the following year he booked his quartet into an Edinburgh spot called the Tron Tavern & Ceilidh House for an engagement concurrent with the Fringe Festival. The band was a big hit and the British Hep jazz label took notice, signing them.
While long a fan of the great trumpeter Don Cherry, Mazurek borrowed his lyricism without necessarily tapping into his freedom-seeking conception, but that all changed in the winter of 1995 when he began playing with guitarist Jeff Parker. Suddenly he began absorbing new sounds, from the coloristic work of trumpeter Bill Dixon to the spacious, slowly evolving compositions of Morton Feldman.
Upon cementing his musical bond with Parker, Mazurek began gigging under the name "Chicago Underground Orchestra" with a loose-knit coterie of Chicagoans who all shared an inetrest in tearing down musical boundaries, including Mazurek's drummer of choice for his flexibility, Chad Taylor.
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Releases:
Playground (CD)   Delmark Records 1998
Amorphic Winged (CD)   Walking Road Records 2001
Silver Spines (CD)   Delmark Records 2002
Thought Farming (Vinyl, Ltd, Album)   En/Of 2003
Music For A Shattered Light Box and 7 Posters (CD, Album)   Bottrop-Boy 2004
Sweet And Vicious Like Frankenstein (CD)   Mego 2004
Abstractions On Robert D'Arbrissel (CD, Album)   Adluna Records 2008
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Flamethrower (CD, Album)   Delmark Records 2000
We Are All From Somewhere Else (Album) (2 versions)   Thrill Jockey ... 2007
Appears On:
Remixed (CD, Comp) Find The One Tokuma Japan Communications 1996
Camoufleur (Album) (4 versions)   Drag City ... 1997
Push Comes To Love (Album) (2 versions) Trevor, Little Lips Drag City 1997
The Unstable Molecule (CD, Album)   Thrill Jockey 1997
12° Of Freedom (LP)   Thrill Jockey 1998
Hoffman Estates (Album) (2 versions)   Drag City 1998
TNT (Album) (5 versions)   City Slang ... 1998
360 Business / 360 Bypass (Album) (7 versions)   Kranky ... 1999
Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night (Album, Maxi) (8 versions)   Elektra ... 1999
Eureka (Album) (4 versions)   Drag City ... 1999
Field Recordings From The Cook County Water Table (Album) (3 versions)   Thrill Jockey ... 1999
Halfway To A Threeway (Maxi, EP) (2 versions)   Drag City ... 1999
In The Fishtank (CD, EP)   In The Fishtank 1999
Possible Cube (CD) Othello, Shaw Town, O ... Delmark Records 1999
Sam Prekop (Album) (3 versions)   Thrill Jockey ... 1999
Sworn Eyes (2xLP)   Bubble Core Records 1999
The Free Design (Maxi, EP) (2 versions) Les Aimies Des Mêmes Duophonic 1999
CHICAGO 2018... It's Gonna Change (Comp) (2 versions) King Cobra, LUH, LUH Clearspot 2000
Descamino - Blacklight Sketches Remixes (2 versions) Dia De Los Muertos: Nu... Quarterstick Records ... 2000
Flamethrower (CD, Album) Quail, Warm Marsh, Wom... Delmark Records 2000
Hot Rail (Album) (6 versions) Fade Quarterstick Records ... 2000
Music Of A Sinking Occasion (Album) (2 versions)   Aesthetics 2000
Synesthesia (LP)   Thrill Jockey 2000
Travelall (CD) The Waves Crashing Sil... Our Soil, Our Strength 2000
99 Explosions (Album) (2 versions)   Moikai 2001
Chicago Underground Quartet (Album) (2 versions)   Thrill Jockey 2001
Insignificance (Album) (3 versions)   Domino Recording Company Ltd. ... 2001
Sound-Dust (Album) (8 versions) Captain Easychord, Gus... Duophonic ... 2001
Anniversary (CD, Album, Enh)   Perishable Records 2002
Axis And Alignment (LP)   Thrill Jockey 2002
Looks At The Bird (Album) (2 versions)   Thrill Jockey 2002
Musikexpress 68 - Thrill Jockey (CD, Comp, Promo, Car) Exponent Red Musikexpress 2002
Yanqui U.X.O. (Album) (2 versions) Rockets Fall On Rocket... Constellation 2002
Lila (EP) (2 versions)   Galaxia 2003
Many In High Places Are Not Well (LP)   Fatcat Records 2003
One A.M. (Album) (2 versions) In Accordance Chocolate Industries 2003
Slon (CD, Album)   Thrill Jockey, Headz 2003
So Much Staying Alive And Lovelessness (LP) The Infinite Blessed Yes Jade Tree 2003
Tigersmilk (CD)   Family Vineyard 2003
Crooklyn Dub Outernational - Certified Dope Vol. 4: Babylon's Burning (2 versions) Disco Lips WordSound 2004
Life On The Fly (CD, Promo) Just Joker Blues, Miss... Drag City 2004
Slon (CD)   Thrill Jockey 2004
Mandarin Movie (Album) (2 versions)   Aesthetics 2005
Who's Your New Professor (3 versions)   Thrill Jockey ... 2005
Numer Jeden (CD) Numer Jeden Asfalt Records, EMI Music (Poland) 2006
Sauna: Um, Dois, Tres (CD)   Aesthetics 2006
Sauna: Um, Dois, Tres (CDr, Album, Promo)   Aesthetics 2006
We Are All From Somewhere Else (Album) (2 versions)   Thrill Jockey ... 2007
Bill Dixon With Exploding Star Orchestra (2 versions)   Thrill Jockey ... 2008
Lost-Wax (CD, Album)   Plush 2008
Maison Hantée (CD, Album) Chamber 73 Rogueart 2008
Beware (Album) (5 versions)   Drag City ... 2009
Beware / Chijimi (File, MP3, Album, 320 + 10", EP, Ltd, Ult)   Drag City, Palace Records 2009
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En/Of 001-030 (3xCD) Thought (Edit) En/Of 2005
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