John Zorn Songography

John Zorn's FILMWORKS VI features music for three films: "Anton, Mailman," "Mechanics of the Brain," and "The Black Glove." The first set of songs is surprisingly laid-back and features the ever-extraordinary guitar work of Marc Ribot backed by the inventive ...

This fine CD from Tzadik includes all four of John Zorn's works for string quartet. The first piece was composed and recorded in 1988, while the rest were recorded for the first time in 1999, specifically for this release. Zorn ...

John Zorn is a music innovator with a reputation for blending vastly different styles and creating something new: hardcore punk and jazz, Italian movie music and cartoon themes. Here he combines the tradition of Jewish klezmer with New York avant-garde ...

John Zorn is a music innovator with a reputation for blending vastly different styles and creating something new: hardcore punk and jazz, Italian movie music and cartoon themes. Here he combines the tradition of Jewish klezmer with New York avant-garde ...

Spillane is a wildly eclectic "strategy" album from saxophonist/composer John Zorn (the musicians received notecards with various, usually divergent, musical directives). Zorn builds a patchwork collage aesthetic to create a dynamic, engaging concept album. While the chance improvisational schemes of ...

John Zorn's FILMWORKS VI features music for three films: "Anton, Mailman," "Mechanics of the Brain," and "The Black Glove." The first set of songs is surprisingly laid-back and features the ever-extraordinary guitar work of Marc Ribot backed by the inventive ...

This features new arrangements of classic Masada tunes by various downtown New York City groups. This is part of Tzadik's Radical Jewish Culture series. Performers include: Pharoah's Daughter, Zony Mash, Lemon Juice Quartet, Jewlia Eisenberg, Naftule's Dream, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Pachora, Cracow ...

John Zorn is a music innovator with a reputation for blending vastly different styles and creating something new: hardcore punk and jazz, Italian movie music and cartoon themes. Here he combines the tradition of Jewish klezmer with New York avant-garde ...

John Zorn is quite a character-a saxophonist; a bandleader and composer; a player of hardcore thrash, bop, free jazz, film music, klezmer, and avant skronk; a musical anarchist; and a participant in a thousand different groups and projects. This disc, ...

An album which straddles the line between John Zorn's classical compositions and his more theoretical, experimental work, Angelus Novus collects four pieces which span 20 years of his career. 1983's "For Your Eyes Only" is a chamber symphony which lurches ...

John Zorn's FILMWORKS VI features music for three films: "Anton, Mailman," "Mechanics of the Brain," and "The Black Glove." The first set of songs is surprisingly laid-back and features the ever-extraordinary guitar work of Marc Ribot backed by the inventive ...

This features new arrangements of classic Masada tunes by various downtown New York City groups. This is part of Tzadik's Radical Jewish Culture series. Performers include: Pharoah's Daughter, Zony Mash, Lemon Juice Quartet, Jewlia Eisenberg, Naftule's Dream, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Pachora, Cracow ...

The latest volume in John Zorn's provocative and prolific series of soundtrack collections belongs to one film, the very instructive and moving documentary Hiding and Seeking by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky. The film, a follow-up to the duo's A ...

An album which straddles the line between John Zorn's classical compositions and his more theoretical, experimental work, Angelus Novus collects four pieces which span 20 years of his career. 1983's "For Your Eyes Only" is a chamber symphony which lurches ...

Naked City's follow up to their self-titled album is a departure from the New York noir that they had perfected. Here, after a 17 minute, moody title piece, all low rumbling punctuated by drum thrashes and distorted screams, is a ...

Super-experimentalist/saxophonist Zorn, trumpeter Dave Douglas, bassist Greg Cohen, and drummer Joey Baron fuse traditional hard bop, noir-ish atmospherics, Ornette Coleman-style free improv, beautiful, ghostly melodies, and even Latin rhythmic elements--disguising the fusion in the clothes of klezmer. While Zorn composes ...

Old school jazz fans might very well be horrified at this tribute to Ornette Coleman by saxophonist, experimentalist and musical deconstructionist extraordinaire John Zorn. Coleman's retooling of jazz syntax, his theories of harmolodic structure and, moreover, the tenacity of his ...

Naked City's follow up to their self-titled album is a departure from the New York noir that they had perfected. Here, after a 17 minute, moody title piece, all low rumbling punctuated by drum thrashes and distorted screams, is a ...

John Zorn is a music innovator with a reputation for blending vastly different styles and creating something new: hardcore punk and jazz, Italian movie music and cartoon themes. Here he combines the tradition of Jewish klezmer with New York avant-garde ...

Naked City's follow up to their self-titled album is a departure from the New York noir that they had perfected. Here, after a 17 minute, moody title piece, all low rumbling punctuated by drum thrashes and distorted screams, is a ...

Naked City's follow up to their self-titled album is a departure from the New York noir that they had perfected. Here, after a 17 minute, moody title piece, all low rumbling punctuated by drum thrashes and distorted screams, is a ...

Super-experimentalist/saxophonist Zorn, trumpeter Dave Douglas, bassist Greg Cohen, and drummer Joey Baron fuse traditional hard bop, noir-ish atmospherics, Ornette Coleman-style free improv, beautiful, ghostly melodies, and even Latin rhythmic elements--disguising the fusion in the clothes of klezmer. While Zorn composes ...

Old school jazz fans might very well be horrified at this tribute to Ornette Coleman by saxophonist, experimentalist and musical deconstructionist extraordinaire John Zorn. Coleman's retooling of jazz syntax, his theories of harmolodic structure and, moreover, the tenacity of his ...

The 15th volume in John Zorn's Film Works series is the soundtrack to director Marc Levin's Protocols of Zion, a documentary about anti-Semitism in the wake of 9/11. Unlike some of the other volumes in this series, Zorn performs here ...

Super-experimentalist/saxophonist Zorn, trumpeter Dave Douglas, bassist Greg Cohen, and drummer Joey Baron fuse traditional hard bop, noir-ish atmospherics, Ornette Coleman-style free improv, beautiful, ghostly melodies, and even Latin rhythmic elements--disguising the fusion in the clothes of klezmer. While Zorn composes ...