Two very different shades of one composer: John Zorn. Workingman's Death is music for Michael Glawogger's reportedly extraordinary documentary film of the same name, about life-threatening jobs. The ...

It's hard to imagine that ten years have passed since John Zorn introduced his Masada project. A decade later, with a collective songbook of over two hundred pieces and a range of contexts that ...

John Zorn's storied career is often described in the future tense. So when the free-form saxophonist decided to celebrate his half-centennial, it's fitting that he turned a traditional moment of ...

In the early 90s, John Zorn surprised a lot of people, and considering that he was a composer known for ... Furthermore, prior to a curious 1992 Naked City track on the Radio LP, he'd never really ...

Stolas is named after a 'fallen' angel/demon, but John Zorn's new music is heavenly: lyrical, occasionally feisty, never hellish. Zorn is mostly composer/producer as his celebrated Masada quartet ...

In its earliest days, jazz was about as interactive a medium as one could imagine, all but insisting that audience members dance, bop or otherwise make themselves an integral part of the performance.

This week a trio of works featuring guitarist Jeff Parker, we then work our way tough a pile of recently acquired '80s LPs featuring lots of Tommy Flanagan, some Mulgrew Miller and Ronnie Mathews; and ...

In 1993, John Zorn began composing music based on Jewish themes for a new group, Masada Quartet. Now, 25 years and 613 tunes later, Zorn is closing the book — literally and figuratively — on what ...

John Zorn‘s Masada aims to “put Ornette Coleman and the Jewish scales together” and he’s been writing Masada material for about 25 years now, with 613 compositions as part of the Masada collection. On ...