the primetime sublime Community Orchestra

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Ridgewood, NJ USA

Jazz • Free Jazz

September 09, 2002

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"New" MUsic? that ranges from Jazz, Rock, various world music idioms, Hip-Hop, Country, Spaghetti Western and other film music genres, Space Age Bachelor Pad to various 20th Century Classical and Avant-Garde styles. The prime-time sublime Community Orchestra fuses these sounds so that the result is something between a pop song, film score, Jazz improvisation, cartoon soundtrack and an orchestral suite.

Band/artist history

THEN

In 1997, Jimbo, distant relative of Bozo the Clown and manic depressive piano virtuoso, founded the new music ensemble The Bastard Children of Bozo in a little studio apartment in New York City.  Personnel consisted of patients from the neighborhood drug clinic, ex-convicts, professional and non-professional musicians. 

The group wore outrageous clown costumes when they performed. In addition to concerts at downtown Manhattan public schools, the group played at the after-hours club Save the Robots.  One night, Tony Clifton, famous New York Talent Agent, heard them and offered to be their manager. Three days later, Clifton was hit by a taxicab and died. At this time, lawyers for the corporation that own the trademark BOZO sent Jimbo a ‘cease and desist’ letter.  Due to stress and other personal problems, Jimbo resigned and The Bastard Children of Bozo broke up.


     NOW

Moving to New Jersey and assuming the role of Artistic Director, Paul Minotto reformed the group as the prime-time sublime Community Orchestra. Original music is now the main agenda, however cartoon sound tracks, TV music themes, and commercial jingles from the 1950’s and 60’s can be heard at a typical concert.

The personnel consist of suburbanites with full-time jobs as butcher, baker, mortician, housewife, plumber, musician, secretary, postman, etcand computers. “In addition to the strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion, computers are used to balance the sound and add another dimension of extra-musical ideas,” explained Minotto.  “One composition has garbage trucks, another has a Ginsu knife commercial under water and another has 200 Tibetan monks transposed 4 octaves higher sounding like chanting chipmunks.”

Performance attire is the traditional black dress or tuxedo but everyone wears a mask, usually clown makeup, though Bill Clinton or Bart Simpson can sometimes be found in the violin section. “We’re planning on doing an arrangement of Elvis Presley songs where everyone including the women will wear Elvis wigs with thick, lamb chop side burns and shiny, Elvis sunglasses,” Minotto said.

This eclectic, non-judgmental approach to making music can be heard on the new prime-time sublime Community Orchestra CD titled "(                  )" released on the CORPORATE BLOB RECORDS label. “After recording parts of the orchestra, overdubs were added and the entire record was mixed in my home studio on an Apple computer,” he explained. Mastering is the last stage in the recording process that has to do with balancing and polishing the sound.  Scott Hull, a well known mastering engineer who has worked with Miles Davis, Steely Dan, Talking Heads and major symphony orchestras, mastered the record at Classic Sound Studios in NYC.  An accomplished abstract painter as well as a composer, Minotto designed the artwork for the CD. 

The prime-time sublime web site at www.primetimesublime.com features free, streaming excerpts from the new CD, absurd, Monty Python-like animations and “other entertaining nonsense” designed to stretch the imagination.

Your musical influences

Too many to list

What equipment do you use?

Doppio Espresso

Anything else?

A community orchestra augmented with synthesizers, electric guitars and other non "orchestral" instruments.

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