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John Zorn (born 2 September 1953 in New York City) is an American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist. He owns the Tzadik record label and has worked with a large number of experimental musicians, particularly in improvised music, incorporating modern classical music, jazz and even death metal and grindcore as well as having produced music to include most styles.
As a child, he played piano, guitar and flute. He went to college in St. Louis, Missouri at Webster College (now Webster University) where he discovered free jazz, before dropping out and moving to Manhattan. There he gave concerts in his small apartment, playing a variety of reeds, duck calls, tapes, etc; almost anything (sometimes he played “musical optics” which involved no instruments or sounds at all, but rather the arrangement of lights and objects in a dark room). In the mid 1980s he signed to the Elektra-Nonesuch label. Since then, Zorn has been quite prolific, usually putting out several new records each year. His breakthrough recording was perhaps 1985’s The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone, wherein Zorn offered a number of often radical arrangements of Morricone’s famed songs from various movies. The Big Gundown was endorsed by Morricone, and incorporated elements of traditional Japanese music, soul jazz, and other diverse musical genres.
As a child, he played piano, guitar and flute. He went to college in St. Louis, Missouri at Webster College (now Webster University) where he discovered free jazz, before dropping out and moving to Manhattan. There he gave concerts in his small apartment, playing a variety of reeds, duck calls, tapes, etc; almost anything (sometimes he played “musical optics” which involved no instruments or sounds at all, but rather the arrangement of lights and objects in a dark room). In the mid 1980s he signed to the Elektra-Nonesuch label. Since then, Zorn has been quite prolific, usually putting out several new records each year. His breakthrough recording was perhaps 1985’s The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone, wherein Zorn offered a number of often radical arrangements of Morricone’s famed songs from various movies. The Big Gundown was endorsed by Morricone, and incorporated elements of traditional Japanese music, soul jazz, and other diverse musical genres.
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Pure love.
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WillOtheWisp666 wrote:
LordRama/macgrueder = pedophags and nothing more. i can't believe somebody hasn't murdered them yet.
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LordRama wrote:
john zorn = novelty music and nothing more. i can't believe people listen to this tasteless mockery of art. [3]
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sm4ears wrote:
mycale is a gem.
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Sckxyss wrote:
"john zorn = novelty music and nothing more" has to be one of the most ignorant statements I've ever read. I'd expect better of an Ornette Coleman fan.
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Katton_Kaada wrote:
Edward R. Murrow
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Draculajuju wrote:
I've just listened to Mycale and i really liked it. It s short in time but a great piece of work. I found it soulfull and magical. Looking good for the dreamers.
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WillOtheWisp666 wrote:
John Zorn is the spark that's keeping modern music interesting. Fuck off.
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schoenburger wrote:
john zorn = novelty music and nothing more. i can't believe people listen to this tasteless mockery of art. [2]
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bullhead_melvin wrote:
http://www.last.fm/music/who+ate+david%3F
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WillOtheWisp666 wrote:
Mycale (BoA 13) is really nice... a change. But good.
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forestyocean wrote:
My god I couldn't help laughing my ass off when I heard Blood Is Thin. Great stuff!
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WillOtheWisp666 wrote:
magrueder: If I didn't listen to Zorn/related stuff, my interest in music would be - 100000%.
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magrueder wrote:
john zorn = novelty music and nothing more. i can't believe people listen to this tasteless mockery of art.
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BrownAndMoist wrote:
I just checked the Tzadik website. If he's really going to be releasing a new album every month, I may have to go back to periodically selling weed again just to keep up.
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BrownAndMoist wrote:
Luckily there are people like John Zorn. People who can release up to 5-8 albums a year (for decades, mind you) and NOT start sucking. They better freeze this man's brain when he dies. I think music could benefit a lot from studying it. Though I'm not sure if he's really 100% human, so I don't know how long it'll be until that actually happens.
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Master_ov_Khaos wrote:
Chimeras is just a "newly revised" version. John Zorn's album for this month is In Search of the Miraculous.
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baartec wrote:
"In Search Of The Miraculous" and "Chimeras" are upcoming, check out tzadik.com
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jeemobon wrote:
It's pretty hard to keep up with this guy. True that he is putting out one album for each month of 2010? Lots of listening ahead eh.
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John Zorn
The Stone, New York, NY, New York, United States
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Festiwal Tradycji i Awangardy Muzycznej KODY
Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Montreal QC, Canada
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News
John Zorn's Masada Marathon at Abrons Art Center
4 Feb 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/johnzorn
..February 17 &
18 8 pmWritten in a flash
of creativity during three months at the end of 2004, the 316
compositions in John Zorn's Book of Angels
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12 Dec 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/johnzorn
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Nufonia225, Deathneyland, annem23 and 1 other person added John Zorn to their libraries. yesterday evening
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MikolajGrazul connected John Zorn to the group nou music. yesterday evening
- John Zorn posted a news item ‘Mycale: The Book of Angels Volume 13’. yesterday evening
- John Zorn posted a news item ‘John Zorn's Masada Marathon at Abrons Art Center’. yesterday evening
- John Zorn posted a news item ‘2010 - GREAT NEWS FOR ZORN FANS!’. yesterday evening
- John Zorn posted a news item ‘A Benefit for Tuli Kupferberg at St. Ann's Warehouse’. yesterday evening
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