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New York City, United States (1953 – present)

John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City, United States) is an American composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn’s recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer. His work has touched on a wide range of musical genres, often within a single composition, but he is best-known for his , , improvised and music. Zorn has led the band Naked City, the klezmer-influenced quartet Masada and composed the associated ‘Masada Songbooks’, written concert music for classical ensembles, and produced music for film and documentary. Zorn has stated that “I’ve got an incredibly short attention span. My music is jam-packed with information that is changing very fast… All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I’m an additive person - the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can’t see the connections, but they are there.”

After releasing albums on several independent US and European labels, Zorn signed with Elektra Nonesuch and attracted wide acclaim in 1985 when he released The Big Gundown with his interpretations of music composed by Ennio Morricone. This was followed by the album Spillane in 1987, and the first album by Naked City in 1989 which all attracted further worldwide attention.
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  • InASafePlace

    I'm in love with his latest more mellow outings: "The Goddess: Music for the Ancient of Days", "In Search of the Miraculous", "The Gnostic Preludes", "Nova Express", "At the Gates of Paradise". Will have to try harder to get into his more abarise stuff like Naked City.

    Saturday evening

  • ButSheDontCare

    Naked City and Nova Express are both really different from one another and both really awesome.

    7 days ago

  • retro_sunfield

    I was thinking what to shout here... but my brain kinda exploded when listening Zorn.

    9 days ago

  • ParalogizaMulte

    Naked City!!

    12 days ago

  • the_eternal_sin

    Does he have any other albums like At The Gates of Paradise and Alhambra Love Song? I love his more avant-garde stuff too of course, but those two mellower albums have some absolutely beautiful songs. I was quite surprised

    13 days ago

  • DeadCaligari

    He looks like Erlend Øye

    14 days ago

  • InASafePlace

    I feel like a lot of Zorn works are being scrobbled as the name of the performers around here. Zorn music should (I think) be scrobbled the same way as classical music.

    14 days ago

  • autorretratos

    Thanks :3

    19 days ago
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Enigmata OUT NOW!

25 Jun 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/johnzorn

John Zorn : Enigmata Twelve bizarre compositional miniatures for the blazing duo of Marc Ribot and Trevor Dunn combining classical 12-tone lyricism with rock intensity and improvisational madness....

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