JOHN ZORN

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John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City, United States) is an American avant-garde 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 avant-garde, jazz, improvised and contemporary classical music. Zorn has led the punk jazz 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 read more...
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JOHN ZORN Discography

JOHN ZORN albums / top albums

JOHN ZORN Pool album cover 2.00 | 1 ratings
Pool
Avant-Garde Jazz 1980
JOHN ZORN Archery album cover 2.00 | 1 ratings
Archery
Avant-Garde Jazz 1981
JOHN ZORN The Classic Guide to Strategy: Volume One album cover 2.00 | 1 ratings
The Classic Guide to Strategy: Volume One
Avant-Garde Jazz 1983
JOHN ZORN Locus Solus album cover 2.50 | 3 ratings
Locus Solus
Avant-Garde Jazz 1983
JOHN ZORN The Classic Guide to Strategy: Volume Two album cover 2.50 | 1 ratings
The Classic Guide to Strategy: Volume Two
Avant-Garde Jazz 1986
JOHN ZORN The Big Gundown: John Zorn plays the music of Ennio Morricone album cover 3.42 | 8 ratings
The Big Gundown: John Zorn plays the music of Ennio Morricone
Third Stream 1986
JOHN ZORN Spillane album cover 4.20 | 5 ratings
Spillane
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1987
JOHN ZORN Cobra album cover 3.08 | 6 ratings
Cobra
Avant-Garde Jazz 1987
JOHN ZORN Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman album cover 2.43 | 5 ratings
Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman
Eclectic Fusion 1988
JOHN ZORN John Zorn / George Lewis / Bill Frisell ‎: News For Lulu album cover 4.67 | 3 ratings
John Zorn / George Lewis / Bill Frisell ‎: News For Lulu
Avant-Garde Jazz 1988
JOHN ZORN Cynical Hysterie Hour (aka  Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour) album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Cynical Hysterie Hour (aka Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour)
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1989
JOHN ZORN Naked City album cover 3.63 | 15 ratings
Naked City
Eclectic Fusion 1990
JOHN ZORN Filmworks: 1986-1990 (aka Filmworks I: 1986-1990) album cover 3.50 | 4 ratings
Filmworks: 1986-1990 (aka Filmworks I: 1986-1990)
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1990
JOHN ZORN Elegy album cover 3.25 | 2 ratings
Elegy
Eclectic Fusion 1992
JOHN ZORN Kristallnacht album cover 2.83 | 3 ratings
Kristallnacht
Third Stream 1993
JOHN ZORN The Art of Memory (with Fred Frith) album cover 4.00 | 5 ratings
The Art of Memory (with Fred Frith)
Avant-Garde Jazz 1994
JOHN ZORN Dekoboko Hajime & Yamantaka Eye : Nani Nani (as Dekoboko Hajime) album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Dekoboko Hajime & Yamantaka Eye : Nani Nani (as Dekoboko Hajime)
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 1995
JOHN ZORN Redbird album cover 3.50 | 3 ratings
Redbird
Third Stream 1995
JOHN ZORN John Zorn Featuring Marc Ribot ‎: The Book Of Heads album cover 3.33 | 3 ratings
John Zorn Featuring Marc Ribot ‎: The Book Of Heads
Third Stream 1995
JOHN ZORN First Recordings 1973 album cover 1.50 | 1 ratings
First Recordings 1973
Avant-Garde Jazz 1995
JOHN ZORN Filmworks II: Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill album cover 2.83 | 3 ratings
Filmworks II: Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1995
JOHN ZORN Filmworks III: 1990-1995 album cover 3.80 | 5 ratings
Filmworks III: 1990-1995
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1995
JOHN ZORN Film Works IV : S/M + More album cover 3.38 | 4 ratings
Film Works IV : S/M + More
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1996
JOHN ZORN Film Works V: Tears Of Ecstasy album cover 3.33 | 3 ratings
Film Works V: Tears Of Ecstasy
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1996
JOHN ZORN Film Works VI :1996 album cover 3.17 | 3 ratings
Film Works VI :1996
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1996
JOHN ZORN Hockey album cover 2.00 | 1 ratings
Hockey
Avant-Garde Jazz 1997
JOHN ZORN New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands album cover 2.62 | 4 ratings
New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands
Avant-Garde Jazz 1997
JOHN ZORN Duras: Duchamp album cover 3.00 | 2 ratings
Duras: Duchamp
Third Stream 1997
JOHN ZORN Euclid's Nightmare album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Euclid's Nightmare
Avant-Garde Jazz 1997
JOHN ZORN Music for Children (Music Romance Series Vol.1) album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Music for Children (Music Romance Series Vol.1)
Avant-Garde Jazz 1998
JOHN ZORN The Bribe album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
The Bribe
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1998
JOHN ZORN The Circle Maker (Masada String Trio/Bar Kokhba Sextet) album cover 4.30 | 5 ratings
The Circle Maker (Masada String Trio/Bar Kokhba Sextet)
World Fusion 1998
JOHN ZORN Downtown Lullaby (with Horvitz, Sharp & Previte) album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Downtown Lullaby (with Horvitz, Sharp & Previte)
Eclectic Fusion 1998
JOHN ZORN Film Works VIII : 1997 album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Film Works VIII : 1997
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1998
JOHN ZORN Taboo and Exile (Music Romance Series Vol.2) album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
Taboo and Exile (Music Romance Series Vol.2)
Avant-Garde Jazz 1999
JOHN ZORN The String Quartets album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
The String Quartets
Third Stream 1999
JOHN ZORN Xu Feng : Game Pieces, Volume I album cover 3.98 | 2 ratings
Xu Feng : Game Pieces, Volume I
Eclectic Fusion 2000
JOHN ZORN Cartoon S/M album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Cartoon S/M
Third Stream 2000
JOHN ZORN Film Works IX : Trembling Before G-D album cover 3.75 | 2 ratings
Film Works IX : Trembling Before G-D
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2000
JOHN ZORN Film Works X : In The Mirror Of Maya Deren album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Film Works X : In The Mirror Of Maya Deren
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2001
JOHN ZORN The Gift (Music Romance Series Vol.3) album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
The Gift (Music Romance Series Vol.3)
Exotica 2001
JOHN ZORN Madness, Love and Mysticism album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Madness, Love and Mysticism
Third Stream 2001
JOHN ZORN Songs from the Hermetic Theater album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Songs from the Hermetic Theater
Third Stream 2001
JOHN ZORN Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces, Volume 2 album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces, Volume 2
Avant-Garde Jazz 2002
JOHN ZORN IAO album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
IAO
Avant-Garde Jazz 2002
JOHN ZORN Secret Lives (Filmworks XI) (2002 Volume One) album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Secret Lives (Filmworks XI) (2002 Volume One)
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2002
JOHN ZORN Film Works XII : 2002 Volume Two - Three Documentaries album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Film Works XII : 2002 Volume Two - Three Documentaries
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2002
JOHN ZORN Film Works XIII : 2002 Volume Three - Invitation To A Suicide album cover 4.75 | 2 ratings
Film Works XIII : 2002 Volume Three - Invitation To A Suicide
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2002
JOHN ZORN Film Works XIV : Hiding And Seeking album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Film Works XIV : Hiding And Seeking
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2003
JOHN ZORN Chimeras album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Chimeras
Third Stream 2003
JOHN ZORN Voices in the Wilderness album cover 3.83 | 3 ratings
Voices in the Wilderness
Avant-Garde Jazz 2003
JOHN ZORN Buck Jam Tonic album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Buck Jam Tonic
Avant-Garde Jazz 2003
JOHN ZORN Magick album cover 4.44 | 8 ratings
Magick
Third Stream 2004
JOHN ZORN Mysterium album cover 3.50 | 2 ratings
Mysterium
Third Stream 2005
JOHN ZORN Film Works XV: Protocols Of Zion album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Film Works XV: Protocols Of Zion
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2005
JOHN ZORN Film Works XVI : Working Man's Death album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Film Works XVI : Working Man's Death
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2005
JOHN ZORN Rituals album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Rituals
Third Stream 2005
JOHN ZORN Film Works XVII: Notes Of Marie Menken / A Life With Skulls Ray Bandar: album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Film Works XVII: Notes Of Marie Menken / A Life With Skulls Ray Bandar:
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2006
JOHN ZORN Moonchild: Songs Without Words album cover 3.50 | 2 ratings
Moonchild: Songs Without Words
Eclectic Fusion 2006
JOHN ZORN Astronome (with Moonchild Trio) album cover 3.88 | 4 ratings
Astronome (with Moonchild Trio)
Eclectic Fusion 2006
JOHN ZORN Film Works XVIII: The Treatment album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Film Works XVIII: The Treatment
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2006
JOHN ZORN Six Litanies for Heliogabalus (with Moonchild Trio) album cover 3.88 | 4 ratings
Six Litanies for Heliogabalus (with Moonchild Trio)
Eclectic Fusion 2007
JOHN ZORN From Silence to Sorcery album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
From Silence to Sorcery
Third Stream 2007
JOHN ZORN The Dreamers album cover 3.40 | 5 ratings
The Dreamers
Exotica 2008
JOHN ZORN The Crucible (with Moonchild Trio) album cover 3.83 | 3 ratings
The Crucible (with Moonchild Trio)
Eclectic Fusion 2008
JOHN ZORN The Crucible album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Crucible
Eclectic Fusion 2008
JOHN ZORN Film Works XIX : The Rain Horse album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Film Works XIX : The Rain Horse
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2008
JOHN ZORN Film Works XX : Sholem Aleihem album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Film Works XX : Sholem Aleihem
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2008
JOHN ZORN Film Works XXI : Belle De Nature / The New Rijksmuseum album cover 3.50 | 2 ratings
Film Works XXI : Belle De Nature / The New Rijksmuseum
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2008
JOHN ZORN Film Works XXII : The Last Supper album cover 3.50 | 2 ratings
Film Works XXII : The Last Supper
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2008
JOHN ZORN Film Works XXIII : El General album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Film Works XXIII : El General
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2009
JOHN ZORN Alhambra Love Songs album cover 3.92 | 6 ratings
Alhambra Love Songs
Avant-Garde Jazz 2009
JOHN ZORN O'o (The Dreamers) album cover 4.09 | 11 ratings
O'o (The Dreamers)
Exotica 2009
JOHN ZORN Femina album cover 4.00 | 3 ratings
Femina
Avant-Garde Jazz 2009
JOHN ZORN In Search of the Miraculous album cover 3.75 | 4 ratings
In Search of the Miraculous
Avant-Garde Jazz 2010
JOHN ZORN The Goddess: Music for the Ancient of Days album cover 3.50 | 4 ratings
The Goddess: Music for the Ancient of Days
Avant-Garde Jazz 2010
JOHN ZORN Dictée / Liber Novus album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Dictée / Liber Novus
Third Stream 2010
JOHN ZORN Ipsissimus (with Moonchild Trio) album cover 3.70 | 9 ratings
Ipsissimus (with Moonchild Trio)
Eclectic Fusion 2010
JOHN ZORN Film Works XXIV : The Nobel Prizewinner album cover 3.83 | 3 ratings
Film Works XXIV : The Nobel Prizewinner
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2010
JOHN ZORN Interzone album cover 4.25 | 2 ratings
Interzone
Avant-Garde Jazz 2010
JOHN ZORN The Dreamers : Ipos (Book Of Angels Volume 14) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Dreamers : Ipos (Book Of Angels Volume 14)
Exotica 2010
JOHN ZORN What Thou Wilt album cover 3.25 | 2 ratings
What Thou Wilt
Third Stream 2010
JOHN ZORN Late Works (with Fred Frith) album cover 3.67 | 3 ratings
Late Works (with Fred Frith)
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2010
JOHN ZORN At The Gates Of Paradise album cover 3.50 | 4 ratings
At The Gates Of Paradise
Third Stream 2011
JOHN ZORN A Dreamers Christmas (The Dreamers) album cover 3.25 | 4 ratings
A Dreamers Christmas (The Dreamers)
Exotica 2011
JOHN ZORN Nova Express album cover 3.48 | 5 ratings
Nova Express
Third Stream 2011
JOHN ZORN The Satyr's Play - Cerberus album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
The Satyr's Play - Cerberus
Third Stream 2011
JOHN ZORN Enigmata (with Marc Ribot & Trevor Dunn) album cover 2.00 | 1 ratings
Enigmata (with Marc Ribot & Trevor Dunn)
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2011
JOHN ZORN A Vision In Blakelight album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
A Vision In Blakelight
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2012
JOHN ZORN Mount Analogue album cover 4.05 | 3 ratings
Mount Analogue
World Fusion 2012
JOHN ZORN Nosferatu album cover 3.95 | 2 ratings
Nosferatu
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2012
JOHN ZORN Templars: In Sacred Blood (with Moonchild Trio) album cover 2.50 | 2 ratings
Templars: In Sacred Blood (with Moonchild Trio)
Eclectic Fusion 2012
JOHN ZORN The Concealed: Esoteric Secrets and Hidden Traditions of the East album cover 4.50 | 3 ratings
The Concealed: Esoteric Secrets and Hidden Traditions of the East
Exotica 2012
JOHN ZORN Rimbaud album cover 4.00 | 3 ratings
Rimbaud
Third Stream 2012
JOHN ZORN Filmworks XXV : City Of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond The Infinite album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Filmworks XXV : City Of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond The Infinite
Jazz Related Soundtracks 2013
JOHN ZORN Lemma album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Lemma
Third Stream 2013
JOHN ZORN Dreamachines album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Dreamachines
Exotica 2013
JOHN ZORN On the Torment of Saints, The Casting of Spells and the Evocation of Spirits album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
On the Torment of Saints, The Casting of Spells and the Evocation of Spirits
Third Stream 2013
JOHN ZORN The Sapphites : Shir HaShirim album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Sapphites : Shir HaShirim
Third Stream 2013
JOHN ZORN The Alchemist album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Alchemist
Third Stream 2014
JOHN ZORN Psychomagia album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Psychomagia
Eclectic Fusion 2014
JOHN ZORN In The Hall Of Mirrors album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
In The Hall Of Mirrors
Third Stream 2014
JOHN ZORN Myth And Mythopoeia album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Myth And Mythopoeia
Third Stream 2014
JOHN ZORN On Leaves Of Grass album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
On Leaves Of Grass
Avant-Garde Jazz 2014
JOHN ZORN Valentine’s Day album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Valentine’s Day
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2014
JOHN ZORN David Smith, Bill Laswell, John Zorn :  The Dream Membrane album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
David Smith, Bill Laswell, John Zorn : The Dream Membrane
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2014
JOHN ZORN The Song Project Vinyl Singles Edition album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Song Project Vinyl Singles Edition
Eclectic Fusion 2014
JOHN ZORN The Last Judgment (with Moonchild Trio) album cover 2.75 | 2 ratings
The Last Judgment (with Moonchild Trio)
Eclectic Fusion 2014
JOHN ZORN John Zorn's Olympiad Vol. 1: Dither Plays Zorn album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
John Zorn's Olympiad Vol. 1: Dither Plays Zorn
Avant-Garde Jazz 2015
JOHN ZORN Hen To Pan album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Hen To Pan
Third Stream 2015
JOHN ZORN John Zorn & The Dreamers – Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula album cover 3.75 | 2 ratings
John Zorn & The Dreamers – Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula
Exotica 2015
JOHN ZORN Forro In The Dark Plays Zorn album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Forro In The Dark Plays Zorn
World Fusion 2015
JOHN ZORN Madrigals album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Madrigals
Third Stream 2016
JOHN ZORN Sacred Visions album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sacred Visions
Third Stream 2016
JOHN ZORN Commedia Dell’arte album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Commedia Dell’arte
Third Stream 2016
JOHN ZORN The Classic Guide to Strategy - Vol. 4 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Classic Guide to Strategy - Vol. 4
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2016
JOHN ZORN The Garden Of Earthly Delights album cover 2.50 | 1 ratings
The Garden Of Earthly Delights
Eclectic Fusion 2017
JOHN ZORN There Is No More Firmament album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
There Is No More Firmament
Third Stream 2017
JOHN ZORN Midsummer Moons album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Midsummer Moons
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2017
JOHN ZORN Interpretation of Dreams album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Interpretation of Dreams
Avant-Garde Jazz 2017
JOHN ZORN The Urmuz Epigrams album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Urmuz Epigrams
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2018
JOHN ZORN Insurrection album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Insurrection
Eclectic Fusion 2018
JOHN ZORN In a Convex Mirror album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
In a Convex Mirror
Avant-Garde Jazz 2018
JOHN ZORN The Book Beriah album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Book Beriah
World Fusion 2018
JOHN ZORN Salem, 1692 album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Salem, 1692
Eclectic Fusion 2018
JOHN ZORN Quatuor Molinari : Cat O’Nine Tails, The Dead Man, Memento Mori & Kol Nidre album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Quatuor Molinari : Cat O’Nine Tails, The Dead Man, Memento Mori & Kol Nidre
Third Stream 2019
JOHN ZORN The Hierophant album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
The Hierophant
21st Century Modern 2019
JOHN ZORN The Hermetic Organ Vol 6 - For Edgar Allan Poe album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Hermetic Organ Vol 6 - For Edgar Allan Poe
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2019
JOHN ZORN Nove Cantici Per Francesco D’assisi album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Nove Cantici Per Francesco D’assisi
Third Stream 2019
JOHN ZORN Tractatus Musico - Philosophicus album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tractatus Musico - Philosophicus
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2019
JOHN ZORN Abraxas : The Book Beri'ah Vol 5 - Gevurah album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Abraxas : The Book Beri'ah Vol 5 - Gevurah
Eclectic Fusion 2019
JOHN ZORN John Zorn - Stephen Gosling - Chris Otto : Encomia album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
John Zorn - Stephen Gosling - Chris Otto : Encomia
Third Stream 2019
JOHN ZORN Virtue album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Virtue
Third Stream 2020
JOHN ZORN Calculus album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Calculus
Eclectic Fusion 2020
JOHN ZORN Baphomet album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Baphomet
Eclectic Fusion 2020
JOHN ZORN Les Maudits album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Les Maudits
Third Stream 2020
JOHN ZORN John Zorn and Jesse Harris : Songs For Petra album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
John Zorn and Jesse Harris : Songs For Petra
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2020
JOHN ZORN The Turner Études album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Turner Études
Third Stream 2020
JOHN ZORN Azoth album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Azoth
Third Stream 2020
JOHN ZORN Gnosis : The Inner Light album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gnosis : The Inner Light
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2021
JOHN ZORN Teresa de Ávila album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Teresa de Ávila
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2021
JOHN ZORN Chaos Magick album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Chaos Magick
Eclectic Fusion 2021
JOHN ZORN Parables album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Parables
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2021
JOHN ZORN Nostradamus : The Death of Satan album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Nostradamus : The Death of Satan
Eclectic Fusion 2021
JOHN ZORN Meditations On The Tarot album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Meditations On The Tarot
21st Century Modern 2021
JOHN ZORN The Ninth Circle album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
The Ninth Circle
Eclectic Fusion 2021
JOHN ZORN A Garden of Forking Paths album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Garden of Forking Paths
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2021
JOHN ZORN John Zorn's Bagatelles album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
John Zorn's Bagatelles
Eclectic Fusion 2021
JOHN ZORN John Zorn's Bagatelles (Vol. 5-8) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
John Zorn's Bagatelles (Vol. 5-8)
Eclectic Fusion 2021
JOHN ZORN Perchance To Dream album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Perchance To Dream
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2022
JOHN ZORN Suite for Piano album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Suite for Piano
Third Stream 2022
JOHN ZORN Garden of Forking Paths album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Garden of Forking Paths
Third Stream 2022
JOHN ZORN Spinoza album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Spinoza
Eclectic Fusion 2022
JOHN ZORN Multiplicities : A Repository of Non-Existent Objects album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Multiplicities : A Repository of Non-Existent Objects
Eclectic Fusion 2022
JOHN ZORN Incerto album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Incerto
21st Century Modern 2022
JOHN ZORN John Zorn’s Bagatelles vol. 9-12 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
John Zorn’s Bagatelles vol. 9-12
Eclectic Fusion 2022
JOHN ZORN The Fourth Way album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Fourth Way
21st Century Modern 2023
JOHN ZORN John Zorn & Bill Laswell : Memoria album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
John Zorn & Bill Laswell : Memoria
Avant-Garde Jazz 2023
JOHN ZORN Multiplicities II : A Repository of Non-existent Objects album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Multiplicities II : A Repository of Non-existent Objects
Eclectic Fusion 2023
JOHN ZORN 444 album cover 2.50 | 1 ratings
444
Eclectic Fusion 2023
JOHN ZORN Full Fathom Five album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Full Fathom Five
Third Stream 2023
JOHN ZORN Parrhesiastes album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Parrhesiastes
Eclectic Fusion 2023
JOHN ZORN Incerto (Marsella / Lage / Roeder / Smith) : Homenaje A Remedios Varo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Incerto (Marsella / Lage / Roeder / Smith) : Homenaje A Remedios Varo
Eclectic Fusion 2023
JOHN ZORN Nothing Is As Real As Nothing album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Nothing Is As Real As Nothing
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2023
JOHN ZORN John Zorn's Bagatelles (Vol. 13-16) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
John Zorn's Bagatelles (Vol. 13-16)
21st Century Modern 2023
JOHN ZORN Ballades album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ballades
21st Century Modern 2024
JOHN ZORN Her Melodious Lay album cover 2.50 | 1 ratings
Her Melodious Lay
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2024
JOHN ZORN Lamentations album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lamentations
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2024

JOHN ZORN EPs & splits

JOHN ZORN live albums

JOHN ZORN John Zorn, Andrea Centazzo, Eugene Chadbourne, Tom Cora, Toshinori Kondo, Polly Bradfield : Environment For Sextet album cover 2.00 | 1 ratings
John Zorn, Andrea Centazzo, Eugene Chadbourne, Tom Cora, Toshinori Kondo, Polly Bradfield : Environment For Sextet
Avant-Garde Jazz 1979
JOHN ZORN Cobra: Live Version album cover 2.00 | 1 ratings
Cobra: Live Version
Avant-Garde Jazz 1987
JOHN ZORN John Zorn / George Lewis / Bill Frisell ‎: More News For Lulu album cover 4.05 | 3 ratings
John Zorn / George Lewis / Bill Frisell ‎: More News For Lulu
Hard Bop 1992
JOHN ZORN John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory album cover 3.00 | 2 ratings
John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory
Avant-Garde Jazz 1995
JOHN ZORN John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94 album cover 2.75 | 2 ratings
John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94
Avant-Garde Jazz 1995
JOHN ZORN John Zorn / Masada Chamber Ensembles ‎: Bar Kokhba album cover 4.25 | 10 ratings
John Zorn / Masada Chamber Ensembles ‎: Bar Kokhba
World Fusion 1996
JOHN ZORN Lacrosse album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lacrosse
Avant-Garde Jazz 1997
JOHN ZORN Angelus Novus album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
Angelus Novus
Third Stream 1998
JOHN ZORN Aporias: Requia for Piano & Orchestra album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Aporias: Requia for Piano & Orchestra
Third Stream 1998
JOHN ZORN 50th Birthday Celebration, Volume 9 - The Classic Guide to Strategy, Volume 3: The Fire Book album cover 2.50 | 1 ratings
50th Birthday Celebration, Volume 9 - The Classic Guide to Strategy, Volume 3: The Fire Book
Avant-Garde Jazz 2004
JOHN ZORN The Hermetic Organ album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
The Hermetic Organ
Avant-Garde Jazz 2012
JOHN ZORN Music And Its Double album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Music And Its Double
Third Stream 2012
JOHN ZORN John Zorn And Thurston Moore :  “@” album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
John Zorn And Thurston Moore : “@”
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2013
JOHN ZORN Fragmentations, Prayers And Interjections album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Fragmentations, Prayers And Interjections
Third Stream 2014
JOHN ZORN The Hermetic Organ Vol. 2: St. Paul's Chapel, NYC album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 2: St. Paul's Chapel, NYC
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2014
JOHN ZORN The Hermetic Organ Vol. 3-St. Paul's Hall,Huddersfield album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 3-St. Paul's Hall,Huddersfield
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2015
JOHN ZORN The Song Project Live at Le Poisson Rouge album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Song Project Live at Le Poisson Rouge
Eclectic Fusion 2015
JOHN ZORN The Hermetic Organ vol. 4—St. Bart's album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Hermetic Organ vol. 4—St. Bart's
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2016
JOHN ZORN The Hermetic Organ Vol. 5 : Philharmonie De Paris album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 5 : Philharmonie De Paris
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2017
JOHN ZORN Hermetic Organ Vol.7 St. John The Divine album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Hermetic Organ Vol.7 St. John The Divine
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2019
JOHN ZORN The Hermetic Organ Vol 8 : For Antonin Artaud album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Hermetic Organ Vol 8 : For Antonin Artaud
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2019
JOHN ZORN John Zorn's Olympiad Vol. 2 Fencing 1978 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
John Zorn's Olympiad Vol. 2 Fencing 1978
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2022
JOHN ZORN The Hermetic Organ Vol. 9 : Liber VII album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 9 : Liber VII
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2022
JOHN ZORN Hermetic Organ Volume 10 - Bozar, Brussels album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Hermetic Organ Volume 10 - Bozar, Brussels
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John Zorn’s Olympiad Vol. 3 : Pops Plays Pops - Eugene Chadbourne Plays The Book Of Heads
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Hermetic Organ Volume 11 - For Terry Riley
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John Zorn / Jesse Harris : Love Songs Live
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The Hermetic Organ Volume 12 - The Bosch Requiem
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The Hermetic Organ Volume 13 - Biennale Musica Venezia
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JOHN ZORN John Zorn, Bill Laswell, Hideo Yamaki with Toshinori Kondo, Akira Sakata, DJ Yama : Tokyo Rotation 1 - Day 5 Set 1 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
John Zorn, Bill Laswell, Hideo Yamaki with Toshinori Kondo, Akira Sakata, DJ Yama : Tokyo Rotation 1 - Day 5 Set 1
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John Zorn, Bill Laswell, Hideo Yamaki, Toshinori Kondo, Akira Sakata, DJ Yama : Tokyo Rotation 1 - Day 5 Set 2
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JOHN ZORN The Catalogue album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Catalogue
Eclectic Fusion 1990

JOHN ZORN re-issues & compilations

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The John Zorn Radio Hour
Eclectic Fusion 1990
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The Classic Guide to Strategy: Volumes One & Two
Avant-Garde Jazz 1996
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The Parachute Years: 1977-1980
Avant-Garde Jazz 1997
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Godard / Spillane
Third Stream 1999
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Filmworks Anthology: 20 Years of Soundtrack Music
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Big Gundown 15th Anniversary
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The Dreamers-The Gentle Side
Exotica 2010
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World Fusion 2018

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A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: 12 Stories about John Zorn
Avant-Garde Jazz 2004

JOHN ZORN Reviews

JOHN ZORN John Zorn / George Lewis / Bill Frisell ‎: More News For Lulu

Live album · 1992 · Hard Bop
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snobb
John Zorn is one of key figure in New York down town scene for some last decades who for many listeners associates with radical experimentation and/or prolific accessible jazz-related releases long lasting history. Both tags are right, but Zorn has much more faces then just this. In late 80s, besides of developing one of his most shocking and influential Naked City project, based on Japanese brutal avant-rock jazzier interpretation, Zorn played in unusual trio with his regular guitarist of that time Bill Frisell and AACM trombonist George Lewis. Two albums has been recorded - both in Europe.

First one - "News For Lulu" - is mostly studio work, when its continuation "More News For Lulu" contains similar material but this time coming from two gigs - one in Paris and the other in Basel, Switzerland. Unusual trio of sax player, trombonist and guitarist plays Blue Note material,or more precisely - hard bop compositions from Sonny Clark, Hank Mobley, Big John Patton, Kenny Dorham, and Freddie Redd, in addition to one selection from Misha Mengelberg.

Most unusual is the fact that this music, recorded almost in the same time when Zorn worked with Naked City,sounds very bright, swinging, light-full and in general very optimistic. Surprisingly enough, trio doesn't cross hard bop frames too often and their down town touch on material is noticeable mostly by modern arrangements and some freer soloing.

Probably a bit too long (lasting one hour and 18 minutes),the album demonstrates some repetitiveness in a second half, but in all it's an enjoyable example of three highest class musicians' work, one among best music John Zorn ever recorded under his name and excellent entry point for newcomers with mainstream jazz background interested in John Zorn massive legacy and unorthodox modern jazz in general.

JOHN ZORN Nosferatu

Album · 2012 · Jazz Related Soundtracks
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Slartibartfast
Bram Stoker is 100 years dead as of April 2012. Imagine that. Nosferatu is actually the name of a movie released in 1922 based on Stoker's novel Dracula but the studio wasn't able to get the rights the novel. The music was created for a modern Polish stage production that is supposed to be "of" the novel. I wasn't able to verify what they are actually calling the play, but anyway...

I was a big horror movie fan and also a movie soundtrack fan when I was a kid before I got into prog and jazz and classical so I had to go for this album and it has some of all of that all rolled together. Before you even get to the music you have to take a look at and a feel of the package. The Tzadic label gets two thumbs up for all the CD album packaging and artwork I have encountered so far. The outer cover is a velvety textured black cardboard with dark red slick textured lettering and a little bat on the front. The back is also smooth and velvety with dripping blood from the top edge. The booklet is more of a matt finish but also uses slick clear lettering on the front and clear slick blood streaks running down from the top edges of the pages in various patterns. The booklet has a few pages of pictures from the production (play, dance?) and it looks like it would be really good to see. Maybe it will make it to DVD one day.

Two other albums come to mind and they are Philip Glass's Dracula soundtrack for the Bela Lugosi movie that did get the novel rights and Harold Budd's (not at all about Dracula or Nosferatu) She Is A Phantom. The latter album comes closer to it for having vibes and a more atmospheric quality to the music. Put the three together and you'll have a nice spooky trio.

The track names are fairly indicative of the music you get as the characters and story themes inspire the music. Desolate Landscape starts out the album with foreboding dark ambient music. Mina mellows it out a little while with piano and vibes. The Battle of Good and Evil noisy as you would expect from a battle between good and evil. John gets to in a little of his trademark sax strangling of course. Very industrial sounding a little Nine Inch Nailsish.

Sinistera and Van Helsing have that spooky vibes driven sound that makes me think of the Budd album. Fatal Sunrise brings back some mellower sax work and Bill Laswell steps forward with some atmospheric bass. Hypnosis comes in and spins around your head vibes and electric piano. The Lucy theme has some similarities to another piece from another album, but I can't quite put my finger on it right now. All of the non-undead persons titled pieces on this are really down to earth, mellow, and contemplative. Nosferatu on the other hand is screwy and creepy with rat noises and Zorn's breath.

The Stalking is one of those trademark Bill Laswell ambient dub style pieces. It's a long stalking too, as all stalking should be I guess. Old horror movie stalkings tend to be that way. It's the longest piece. The bass plods on along and creepy keyboards and squealing sax drift in and out and about. The Undead is a quiet piece with John on piano. Death Ship sounds like a creaky old vessel on a dead sea. Jonathan Harker has Rob Burger, the main keyboardist in the group, taking center stage in a duet with the group's percussionist, Kevin Norton, on vibes.

Vampires At Large, bass and electric keyboards lurking about. Renfield, piano and vibes again, hesitant, a little mysterious. Stalker Dub wraps it up, figures, did you remember to shoot it in the head with a silver bullet? No wait? that's all wrong. The stake, the stake, aieeee!!!

JOHN ZORN Mount Analogue

Album · 2012 · World Fusion
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I certainly feel lazy, guilty even, by adding my tiny voice to the host of others describing John Zorn’s 'Mount Analogue’ as ‘mysterious’ – but that’s the feel the music gives me.

Setting aside the impetus of the surrealist novel of the same name, this is indeed enigmatic music. A sense of the unknown is evoked when you listen to its single track, the music pulls you along a near forty minute trip through South American jungles, rivers, mountains and caves. Or so it does when I hear it.

Once again, much has been said of the accessibility of this release, and when compared to some of Zorn’s other works, it is at that. At times it’s downright pleasant and soothing, beautiful. In other passages there is a sense of menace that never really gets too dark, accented by percussive thumps and at times, harsh or unsettling chanting. But there’s such a lightness to the music elsewhere, whether it comes from the variety of bells or the vibes, or piano in the opening minutes, it’s there. (And by ‘light’ I don’t mean to suggest that it has no depth.)

And so what does it actually sound like? World music, definitely, jazz, certainly, the Latin and folk genres, yep and yep. But more useful perhaps, would be to come back to that word, ‘mysterious.’ At times this music sounds like it would fit the discovery of a thousand-year old Temple, or maybe be played during a Shaman’s dance. But just have a listen and see what you get, the music is certainly capable of suggesting other images.

On 'Mount Analogue' John Zorn composes and has the Cyro Baptista Banquet of the Spirits quartet perform the work. Kenny Wollesen's vibes in particular play a vital role in establishing and changing mood with suddenness or subtlety as required, deserving of much credit. Perhaps the other standout for me in terms of performance, which was more of a personal favourite, was the organ. Throughout, Marsella does exactly what’s needed (as he does on piano too for that matter) and I found myself seeking it out probably more often than any number of interesting percussive instruments or the strings of the oud.

In short, I loved it.

JOHN ZORN The Art of Memory (with Fred Frith)

Album · 1994 · Avant-Garde Jazz
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snobb
John Zorn's name during last two decades became synonym of avant-garde jazz (often - it's quirky side). But a lot of newcomers after few first trips into his huge discography are often surprised or even disoriented - far not every Zorn's album sounds as avant-garde jazz (or even related with any avant-garde at all). There is no mistake - big part of Zorn's (composed) music lay in such wide fields as modern classic, non-jazz experimental music or world (klezmer) among others.

There are still some very representative recordings, coming from Zorn's "classical" avant-garde jazz period, "The Art Of Memory" is great example. First of all, it is a duo between Zorn and one of most representative guitarist of improvisational music - Fred Frith. Both are in excellent form and the album is great evidence how fruitful and interesting improvisational jazz can sound when played by two masters. Only Frith's guitar and Zorn's alto sax sounds (plus some minimalistic tapes loops)build aural picture of thousand nuances. Not extremely freaky as Zorn's early experimental works,this music contains one of the best interplays in both musicians history. And - this release is great example how good improvisational sax player John Zorn is ( during last decade or even more he doesn't demonstrate his virtuosity too often).

Far not an easy listening, but one of great "classical" Zorn's avant-garde jazz works, must have album for every serious Zorn's music fan or researcher.

JOHN ZORN Ipsissimus (with Moonchild Trio)

Album · 2010 · Eclectic Fusion
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Slartibartfast
What can one say about this album? The cover sleeve blurb says "Weaving sonic dramas around the legacies of Magick and Alchemy." Okay, I'll buy that and I did. "Powerful secrets are realized through intensity and extremes of experience." John Zorn. Can't say I wasn't warned.

Seven Sigils kicks the album off in high gear with a heavy driving bass line by Trevor Dunn thunderous drums from Joey Baron and then its whoooaaaa de deen heh hah he huh heh whoooo de naahh - Mike Patton doing scat language vocalizations, and then John Zorn appears and starts to strangle a saxophone. But it works and that's the important thing. However this one album I probably never ever ever be able to play for anyone I know in its entirety in one sitting. Maybe only many of the parts for a few seconds at best.

It really is like a soundtrack to a really intense horror movie. Not one of those boring slasher affairs but one that keeps you on the edge of your seat in a more intellectual fashion. Maybe more like a David Lynch flick. In fact you could pair this up with either the Lost Highway soundtrack or Octaves Of The Holy Innocent by Hellborg/Buckethead/Shrieve. The Book Of Los eases the tension of the opener a little, but still has a spooky aspect to it. Marc Ribot's guitar takes center stage on this one, the searing guitar branding your ass flesh. And thennnneeeooogghhh lalalala nnnddduu mmmsoo tnndkllll. OK, you really have to have a little sense of humour with the vocalizationsAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrruuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

So anyway, be expected to be taken on a ride of dissonance and wonder and darkness and harmony and horror and beauty and whatever the hell else you want in it or aauurrgghh. If I had an odd division in my collection, I'd have to place it there.

On a final note. The art of the cover isn't dead with the CD: this one's a digipak with three dark themed paintings I don't recognize. It is contained within a gold slip cover that has an equilateral cross cut out in the center of the front and a circle on the back, revealing two of the paintings.

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