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John Zorn

John Zorn (* 1953) is an American composer, arranger, producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist (among others the organ) with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, klezmer, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music. He incorporates diverse styles in his compositions which he identifies as avant-garde or experimental. Zorn was described by Down Beat as "one of our most important composers".

Zorn established himself within the New York City downtown music movement in the mid-1970s performing with musicians across the sonic spectrum and developing experimental methods of composing new music. After releasing albums on several independent US and European labels, Zorn signed with Elektra Nonesuch and received wide acclaim with the release of The Big Gundown, an album reworking the compositions of Ennio Morricone. He attracted further attention worldwide with the release of Spillane in 1987, and Naked City in 1989. After spending almost a decade travelling between Japan and the US he made New York his permanent base and established his own record label, Tzadik, in the mid-1990s.

Tzadik enabled Zorn to maintain independence from the mainstream music industry and ensured the continued availability of his growing catalog of recordings, allowing him to prolifically record and release new material, issuing several new albums each year, as well as promoting the work of many other musicians. Zorn has led the hardcore bands Naked City and Painkiller, the klezmer/free jazz-influenced quartet Masada, composed over 600 pieces as part of the Masada Songbooks that have been performed by an array of groups, composed concert music for classical ensembles and orchestras, and produced music for opera, sound installations, film and documentary. Zorn has undertaken many tours of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, often performing at festivals with many other musicians and ensembles that perform his diverse output.

Zorn's compositions cross many genres and he has stated "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." For Zorn "Composing is more than just imagining music it's knowing how to communicate it to musicians. And you don't give an improviser music that's completely written out, or ask a classical musician to improvise. I'm interested in speaking to musicians in their own languages, on their own terms, and in bringing out the best in what they do. To challenge them and excite them."

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Filmworks XII : 2002 Volume Two - Three Documentaries Tzadik TZ 7340 recorded in Brooklyn, NY/USA	John Zorn, organ, piano, harmonica Min Xiao-Fen, pipa Marc Ribot, guitar Jamie Saft, Wurlitzer Mark Feldman, violin Erik Friedlander, cello Trevor Dunn, bass Cyro Baptista, percussion Roberto Rodriguez, percussion Jennifer Charles, vocals
Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death Tzadik TZ 7347 recorded January through March 2005 in Brooklyn, NY/USA	John Zorn, organ, gamelan Jamie Saft, guitar, piano Ikue Mori, electronics Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, bass Cyro Baptista, percussion
Rimbaud Tzadik TZ 8301 recorded December 2011 in New York City/USA	John Zorn, alto sax, guitar, organ, piano, drums Bradley Lubman, conductor Tara Helen O'Connor, flute Rane Moore, clarinet Stephen Gosling, piano Steve Beck, piano Ikue Mori, electronics Alex Lipowski, vibes Erik Carlson, violin Elizabeth Weisser, viola Chris Gross, cello Trevor Dunn, bass Kenny Wollesen, drums Mathieu Amalric, vocals
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 1 Tzadik TZ 7399 recorded December 2011 at the Aeolian Skinner organ, St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University in New York City/USA	John Zorn, church organ
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 2 Tzadik TZ 8312 recorded September 2013 at the Aeolian Skinner organ, St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University in New York City/USA	John Zorn, church organ
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 3 Tzadik TZ 8326 recorded 2014 at St. Paul's Hall in Huddersfield/Great Britain	John Zorn, pipe organ
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 4 Tzadik TZ 8340 recorded October 2015 at St. Bart's in New York City/USA	John Zorn, church organ
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 5 Tzadik TZ 8357 recorded March 2017 at Philharmonie De Paris/France	John Zorn, pipe organ
The Urmuz Epigrams Tzadik TZ 8358 recorded September 2017 in New York City/USA	John Zorn, conductor, sax, guitar, organ, piano, bass, percussion, voices Ches Smith, vibes, glockenspiel, drums, percussion, voices
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 6 Tzadik TZ 8362	John Zorn, pipe organ
Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus Tzadik TZ 8365 recorded November 2018 in New York City/USA/USA	John Zorn, sax, organ, piano, bass, drums, percussion
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 7 Tzadik TZ 8367 recorded May 2013 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City/USA	John Zorn, church organ
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 8 Tzadik TZ 8368 recorded June 2019 at Gallus Hall, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana/Slovenia	John Zorn, church organ
Les Maudits Tzadik TZ 8373 recorded January 2020 in New York City/USA	John Zorn, sax, organ, piano, percussion, vocals David Fulmer, conductor David Byrd-Marrow, horn Mike Lormand, trombone Rebekah Heller, bassoon Andrew Madej, tuba Claire Chase, flute Alice Teyssier, flute Joshua Rubin, clarinet Simon Sheldon Hanes, guitar, piano, accordion, cello, harp, bass, percussion, vocals Daniel Lippel, guitar Cory Smythe, harpsichord Ikue Mori, electronics Ches Smith, vibes, glockenspiel, drums, percussion vocals Erik Carlson, violin Miranda Cuckson, viola Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello Nathan Davis, percussion Ross Karre, percussion
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 9 Tzadik TZ 8391 recorded live March 2022 at St John's Cathedral, Knoxville, TN/USA	John Zorn, church organ
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 10 Tzadik TZ 8391 recorded March 2019 at La Salle Henry Le Bœuf, Bruxelles/Belgium	John Zorn, pipe organ Barbara Hannigan, vocals
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 11 Tzadik TZ 9306 recorded September 2023 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA/USA	John Zorn, church organ
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 12 Tzadik TZ 9307 recorded November 2023 at Grote Kerk in Den Bosch/The Netherlands	John Zorn, church organ John Medeski, church organ
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 13 Tzadik TZ 9313 recorded at Palazzo Pisano in Venezia/Italy	John Zorn, pipe organs

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