For the entire month of September 2003, multi-instrumentalist/composer John Zorn celebrated his 50th birthday with a series of concerts at Tonic in New York City. For thirty days he looked at groups ...

It's hard to imagine that ten years have passed since John Zorn introduced his Masada project. A decade later, with a collective songbook of over two hundred pieces and a range of contexts that ...

Stolas is named after a 'fallen' angel/demon, but John Zorn's new music is heavenly: lyrical, occasionally feisty, never hellish. Zorn is mostly composer/producer as his celebrated Masada quartet ...

John Zorn's storied career is often described in the future tense. So when the free-form saxophonist decided to celebrate his half-centennial, it's fitting that he turned a traditional moment of ...

John Zorn describes his Masada songbook as follows: “The idea is to put Ornette Coleman and the Jewish scales together.” He’s been writing Masada material for about 20 years, and he’s racked up some ...

John Zorn first jutted out of modern jazz’s bubbling infrastructure by mashing disparate styles and musicians togetherespecially in his Masada project, which played Friday night in Durham. Jewish ...

In its earliest days, jazz was about as interactive a medium as one could imagine, all but insisting that audience members dance, bop or otherwise make themselves an integral part of the performance.

John Zorn‘s Masada aims to “put Ornette Coleman and the Jewish scales together” and he’s been writing Masada material for about 25 years now, with 613 compositions as part of the Masada collection. On ...

In 1993, John Zorn began composing music based on Jewish themes for a new group, Masada Quartet. Now, 25 years and 613 tunes later, Zorn is closing the book — literally and figuratively — on what ...

For his first – and last – visit to Australia, John Zorn offered a smorgasboard of “radical Jewish music” to blistering effect John Zorn has never been to Australia before and, according to Adelaide ...

Two very different shades of one composer: John Zorn. Workingman's Death is music for Michael Glawogger's reportedly extraordinary documentary film of the same name, about life-threatening jobs. The ...