Downtown Lullaby

Downtown Lullaby
Downtown Lullaby
Studio album by John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Bobby Previte and Wayne Horvitz
Released	June 16, 1998
Recorded	January 15, 1998
Studio	Avatar (New York City)
Genre	Avant-garde
Length	47:28
Label	Depth of Field
Producer	Bobby Previte
John Zorn chronology

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Downtown Lullaby is an album of improvised music by John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Bobby Previte and Wayne Horvitz. The album was released on the Depth of Field label in 1998 and contains seven tracks titled after addresses of performing spaces in the East Village and Soho.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 2½ stars stating "Downtown Lullaby isn't a bad record but, given the personnel, one would have hoped for more".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Horovitz/Previte/Sharp/Zorn

"484 Broome" - 5:42
"500 West 52nd" - 6:15
"Eighth Between B & C" - 6:11
"77 White" - 3:57
"228 West Broadway" - 9:07
"Bleecker & Bowery" - 7:16
"1 Morton St (Downtown Lullaby)" - 9:00

Personnel

Elliott Sharp – electric guitars
Wayne Horvitz – Hammond organ, piano, keyboards
Bobby Previte – drums
John Zorn – alto saxophone

References

^ Olewnick, B. Allmusic Guide Review accessed July 21, 2008.
^ ^a ^b Olewnick, B. Allmusic Review accessed August 2, 2011.

[1] Olewnick, B. Allmusic Guide Review accessed July 21, 2008.

[Allmusic-2] Olewnick, B. Allmusic Review accessed August 2, 2011.

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v t e John Zorn
Discography
Solo albums	The Classic Guide to Strategy First Recordings 1973 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 9 The Hermetic Organ The Hermetic Organ Vol. 2
Game Pieces	Lacrosse Pool Hockey Archery Cobra John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94 New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands Xu Feng Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2
File Card Pieces	Spillane The Bribe Elegy Kristallnacht Godard/Spillane Femina Dictée/Liber Novus Interzone Mount Analogue
Cover albums	Voodoo The Big Gundown News for Lulu More News for Lulu Spy vs Spy
Classical	Redbird The Book of Heads Duras: Duchamp Angelus Novus Aporias: Requia for Piano and Orchestra The String Quartets Cartoon S/M Madness, Love and Mysticism Songs from the Hermetic Theatre Chimeras Magick Mysterium Rituals From Silence to Sorcery The Satyr's Play / Cerberus What Thou Wilt Lemma On the Torment of Saints, the Casting of Spells and the Evocation of Spirits The Alchemist Fragmentations, Prayers and Interjections In the Hall of Mirrors Myth and Mythopoeia
Filmworks	1986-1990 Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill 1990–1995 S&M + More Tears of Ecstasy 1996 Cynical Hysterie Hour 1997 Trembling Before G-d In the Mirror of Maya Deren Secret Lives Three Documentaries Invitation to a Suicide Hiding and Seeking Protocols of Zion Workingman's Death Notes on Marie Menken/Ray Bandar: A Life with Skulls The Treatment The Rain Horse Sholem Aleichem Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum The Last Supper El General The Nobel Prizewinner City of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond the Infinite
Bar Kokhba	Bar Kokhba The Circle Maker 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 11 Lucifer: Book of Angels Volume 10
Masada String Trio	The Circle Maker 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1 Azazel: Book of Angels Volume 2 Haborym: Book of Angels Volume 16
Music Romance	Music for Children Taboo & Exile The Gift
Hemophiliac	Hemophiliac 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6
Masada Anniversary	Masada Guitars Voices in the Wilderness The Unknown Masada Masada Recital Masada Rock
50th Birthday Celebration	Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7 Volume 8 Volume 9 Volume 10 Volume 11 Volume 12
Book of Angels	Astaroth Azazel Malphas Orobas Balan Moloch Asmodeus Volac Xaphan Lucifer Zaebos Stolas Mycale Ipos Baal Haborym Caym Pruflas Abraxas Tap Alastor Adramelech Aguares
Moonchild	Moonchild: Songs Without Words Astronome Six Litanies for Heliogabalus The Crucible Ipsissimus Templars: In Sacred Blood The Lost Judgment
The Dreamers	The Dreamers O'o Ipos: Book of Angels Volume 14 A Dreamers Christmas Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula
Alhambra	Alhambra Love Songs In Search of the Miraculous The Goddess – Music for the Ancient of Days
Simulacrum	Simulacrum The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons Inferno The Painted Bird 49 Acts Of Unspeakable Depravity In The Abominable Life And Times Of Gilles De Rais The Garden Of Earthly Delights Baphomet Chaos Magick Nostradamus: The Death of Satan
Tributes and Inspirations	IAO Enigmata Nova Express At the Gates of Paradise Nosferatu Rimbaud A Vision in Blakelight The Concealed Dreamachines Shir Hashirim Psychomagia On Leaves of Grass
Gnostic Trio	The Gnostic Preludes The Mysteries In Lambeth
Collaborations	In Memory of Nikki Arane with Eugene Chadbourne Locus Solus Yankees with Derek Bailey & George E. Lewis Deadly Weapons with Steve Beresford, Tonie Marshall & David Toop Ganryu Island with Sato Michihiro The Art of Memory with Fred Frith Zohar with Yamantaka Eye Nani Nani with Yamantaka Eye Harras with Derek Bailey & William Parker Euclid's Nightmare with Bobby Previte Weird Little Boy with Trey Spruance, Mike Patton, William Winant & Chris Cochrane Downtown Lullaby with Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp and Bobby Previte Prelapse with Prelapse Buck Jam Tonic with Bill Laswell & Tatsuya Nakamura Naninani II with Yamantaka Eye The Stone: Issue One with Dave Douglas, Rob Burger, Bill Laswell, Mike Patton & Ben Perowsky The Stone: Issue Three with Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson The Art of Memory II with Fred Frith Late Works with Fred Frith @ with Thurston Moore Sonic Rivers with George E. Lewis & Wadada Leo Smith

v t e Wayne Horvitz
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Some Order, Long Understood (with Butch Morris and William Parker, 1982) Dinner at Eight (1985) The President (1987) Bring Yr Camera (1988) Miracle Mile (1992) V as in Victim (1993) Miss Ann (1993) 4+1 Ensemble (1996) Daylight (1997) Cold Spell (1997) Downtown Lullaby (with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, and Bobby Previte, 1998) Brand Spankin' New (1998) American Bandstand (1999) Upper Egypt (1999) From a Window (2000) Sweeter Than the Day (2001)
Live albums	Live in Poland (1994) Live in Seattle (2001)
Related articles	Naked City Ponga Robin Holcomb (wife)

v t e Bobby Previte
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Albums	Weather Clear, Track Fast (1991) Slay the Suitors (1993) Hue and Cry (1993) Too Close to the Pole (1996) Euclid's Nightmare (with John Zorn, 1997) Downtown Lullaby (with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, and Wayne Horvitz, 1998) The Coalition of the Willing (2005) Set the Alarm for Monday (2007) Pan Atlantic (2009) We Two Kings: Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte Play the Great Carols (with Charlie Hunter, 2015)
Related articles	Ponga