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Born: Sep 2, 1953 in New York, NY. Genres: Avntgarde Styles: Improvisation, Jewish Music, Avant-Garde Jazz, Film Music, Soundtracks, Experimental, Free Jazz, 20th Century Classical/Modern Composition, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde, Modern Creative. Instruments: Executive Producer, Sax (Alto), Composer
It is possible to call John Zorn a "jazz" musician, but that would be much too limiting a description. While jazz feeling is present in a good deal of his work, and the idea of improvisation is vitally important to him, Zorn doesn't operate within any idiom's framework, drawing from just about any musical, cultural or noise source that a fellow who grew up in the TV and LP eras could experience. This eclecticism gone haywire can result in such wildly jump-cutting works as Spillane, whose plethora of diverse and incompatible styles makes for a listening experience akin to constantly punching the station buttons on a car radio. Zorn believes that the age of the composer as an "autonomous musical mind" had come to an end in the late 20th century; hence the collaborative nature of much of his work, both with active musicians and music and styles of the past. Like Mel Brooks, the zany film director, many of Zorn's works are tributes to certain musical touchstones of his - such as Ennio Morricone, Sonny Clark and Ornette Coleman - all filtered through his unpredictable hall of mirrors. While it would be foolhardy to single out a handful of dominant influences, Zorn's music seems very close in spirit to that of Warner Bros. cartoon composer Carl Stalling, both in its transformation of found material and manic, antic moods.
This calculating wild man started playing the piano as a child before taking up the guitar and flute at age ten. By the time he was 14, Zorn had discovered contemporary classical music and began composing; his college years in St. Louis brought about his introduction to avant-garde jazz, particularly that of Anthony Braxton. He dropped out of college, settled in lower Manhattan, and began working with free improvisers, rock bands, and tape, sometimes working duck and bird calls into his arsenal. After putting out releases on tiny domestic and poorly distributed import labels, Zorn signed with Elektra-Nonesuch in the mid-'80s, which increased his visibility considerably. Along the way, he has formed tribute bands to play the music of Coleman, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan and others; featured musicians as diverse as Big John Patton, Tim Berne, Bill Frisell and the Kronos Quartet; and assembled a group called Masada that merges Coleman with Yiddish music. Jazz buffs should be directed to his Coleman tribute album Spy Vs. Spy (Nonesuch), which makes exciting, thrashing yet concise hashes of 17 Ornette tunes with a quintet. Cartoon S&M followed in fall 2000. Songs from the Hermetic Theatre appeared a year later.
- Richard S. Ginell (All Music Guide)
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CD коллекции, связанные с исполнителем: |
как основной исполнитель ... |
John Zorn - 'A Classic Guide To Strategy. Vol. 1 & 2' - 1985, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Angelus Novus' - 1998, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Aporias' - 1998, Tzadik, G&P Music |
John Zorn - 'At The Mountains Of Madness' - 2005, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Bar Kokhba' - 1996, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Duras: Duchamp' - 1997, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Electric Masada (50/4)' - 2004, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Elegy' - 1992, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Film Works X: In The Mirror Of Maya Deren' - 2001, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Film Works XII: Three Documentaries' - 2002, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Film Works XIII: Invitation To A Suicide' - 2002, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Film Works XIV: Hiding And Seeking' - 2003, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Film Works XVI: Workingman's Death' - 2005, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Ganryu Island' - 1984, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'IAO: Music In Sacred Light' - 2002, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Issachar' - Stress Records |
John Zorn - 'John Zorn: Rimbaud' - 2012, Tzadik Records |
John Zorn - 'Kristallnacht' - 1993, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Lemma' - 2013, Tzadik Records |
John Zorn - 'Madness, Love And Mysticism' - 2001, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Masada Guitars' - 2003, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Masada. First Live 1993' - 2002, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Masada. Live At Tonic 2001' - 2001, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Masada. Live In Jerusalem' - 1999, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Masada. Live In Middelheim' - 1999, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Mount Analogue' - 2012, Tzadik Records |
John Zorn - 'Nani Nani' - 1995, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'New Traditions In East Asian Bar Bands' - 1996, Avant, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'News For Lulu' - 1987, hatHUT |
John Zorn - 'Redbird' - 1995, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Six Litanies For Heliogabalus' - 2007, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Spillane' - 1987, Elektra Nonesuch |
John Zorn - 'Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman' - 1988, Elektra Nonesuch |
John Zorn - 'Templars: In Sacred Blood' - 2012, Tzadik Records |
John Zorn - 'The Big Gundown. John Zorn Plays The Music Of Ennio Morricone' - 1985, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'The Concealed' - 2012, Tzadik Records |
John Zorn - 'The Gift' - 2001, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Zayin' - 1999, DIW |
John Zorn - 'Zevulun' - Stress Records |
как основной соисполнитель ... |
Derek Bailey - 'Yankees' - 1982, Charly Records |
Uri Caine - 'Moloch: Book Of Angels Vol. 6' - 2006, Tzadik |
Painkiller - 'Execution Ground' - 1994, Subharmonic |
Big John Patton - 'Minor Swing' - 1995, DIW |
как соисполнитель ... |
Derek Bailey - 'Mirakle' - 2000, Tzadik |
Bar Kokhba - 'Lucifer: The Book Of Angels, Vol. 10' - 2008, Tzadik |
Thomas Chapin - 'Menagerie Dreams' - 1994, Knitting Factory |
Mark Feldman - 'Malphas: Book Of Angels, Vol.3' - 2006, Tzadik |
Erik Friedlander - 'Volac: Book Of Angels, Vol.8' - 2007, Tzadik |
Fred Frith - 'The Technology Of Tears' - 1988, SST |
Serge Gainsbourg - 'Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg' - 1997, Tzadik |
Marisa Monte - 'Mais' - 1991, World Pacific |
Ikue Mori - 'Hex Kitchen' - 1995, Tzadik |
David Moss - 'Dense Band' - 1985, Moers |
Naked City - 'Black Box: Torture Garden. Leng Tch'e' - 1992, Tzadik |
Marc Ribot - 'Asmodeus: Book Of Angels Vol.7' - 2007, Tzadik |
Wadada Leo Smith - 'Lake Biwa' - 2004, Tzadik |
The Cracow Klezmer Band - 'De Profundis' - 2000, Tzadik |
The Cracow Klezmer Band - 'Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass: A Tribute To Bruno Schulz' - 2005, Tzadik |
The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet - 'Voodoo' - 1985, Black Saint |
Kurt Weill - 'Lost In The Stars: The Music Of Kurt Weill' - 1985, A&M |
Danny Zamir - 'Children Of Israel' - 2002, Tzadik |