John Zorn

...without including a bit of funk in the mix their performance came off as pseudo-masturbatory. With a back-catalog that features jazz, funk, John Zorn compositions, and kid's tunes, a more eclectic setlist would have been more stimulating for...

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...a DJ (on the album "Combustication''), teaming up with guitarist John Scofield (on both "A Go Go'' and "Out Louder''), covering John Zorn ("Zaebos: Book of Angels, Vol. 11''), veering into the avant-garde ("The Dropper''), and going...

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Mark and his large dog Louie endeavor daily to find and listen to new and interesting sounds. John Zorn returns to his famous "file card" technique of composing with Femina, a disc he wrote and conducts with an all-woman lineup, dedicated...

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...sound throughout, thanks to Mark Orton's mix and mastering by Jon Cohrs of Spleenless Mastering. Ben Goldberg, whom John Zorn has called one of the greatest clarinetists I have ever heard," grew up in Denver, Colorado, and received...

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...also often rooted in grooves and a steady beat. With a front line of Joe Lovano's tenor sax and Dave Douglas' trumpet (with guest John Zorn on one track), plus pianist Uri Caine, bassist Greg Cohen and Baron, this is a group with more than a...

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...it came to me via the United States again because I tried to listen to something else beside Bob Dylan and the Beatles, and John Zorn [the avant-garde American composer and saxophonist] had this project called Masada. It was my favorite...

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...the BBC Music, Brooklyn Vegan, Spannered and Stirrer websites, The Wire and Jazzwise magazines, and the Coventry Telegraph newspaper. John Zorn's intimate venue, The Stone, bases its calendar around selections made by invited curators, but...

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...funk, hip-hop, noise and just about everything else in bands like Faith No More, Fantomas and Tomahawk. He's also collaborated with John Zorn and served as one-time vocalist for The Dillinger Escape Plan. But out of all of his projects, Mr....

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...Mick Harris (far right) to cement the evil jazz backbone of Painkiller. October 27, 2009 - According to legend, saxophonist John Zorn once looked out over a mosh pit at a Painkiller concert in Tokyo, excitedly leaned over to bassist Bill...

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...Lacy, first gaining national notice with the New Klezmer Trio, a seminal vehicle for radical Jewish culture that paved the way for John Zorn's Masada. At a cafe near his house in Berkeley on a recent sun-splashed morning, Goldberg talked...

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