John Zorn – John Zorn’s Bagatelles vol. 13-16 (2023)
From March to May 2015, John Zorn composed 300 new tunes that were eventually collected into a book of music he called The Bagatelles. After 5 years of performances around the world in venues large...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – Hermetic Organ: Vol. 01-10 (2012-2022)
This is the first volume documenting Zorn’s breathtaking solo organ improvisations. Although organ was Zorn’s first instrument (he often credits Lon Chaney in the silent classic Phantom of the Opera...
View ArticleBill Laswell & John Zorn – Memoria (2023)
Towering figures of New York’s Downtown scene, John Zorn and Bill Laswell have been working together since the late 1970s. Following up on their acclaimed 2022 duo project The Cleansing, this new...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – Multiplicities II: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects (2023)
Written in December of 2020, Multiplicities: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects is a collection of twenty musical aphorisms inspired by the writings and thought of Gilles Deleuze. Volume One,...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – The Fourth Way (2023)
John Zorn’s latest book of music for piano trio is inspired by the writings and thought of the elusive mystical figure Georges Gurdjieff. The music is expansive, ranging from heartfelt lyricism to...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – 444 (2023)
The one word virtually everyone can agree on in any discussion of the work of composer John Zorn is “prolific” in the strictest sense of the definition. In 2020 Brian Marsella joined the heavy metal...
View ArticleEugene Chadbourne – John Zorn’s Olympiad, Vol. 3: Pops Plays Pops (2022)
Composed in 1976 and studied by guitarists the world over, The Book of Heads is one of Zorn’s most popular and oft-performed compositions. Concentrated into 35 “heads” that can be used as jumping off...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – New Masada Quartet, Volume Two (2023)
The first release by John Zorn’s newest and most exciting ensemble, New Masada Quartet was one of Tzadik’s best-selling and most popular recent releases. Here the quartet returns to perform eight more...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – John Zorn’s Bagatelles vol. 9-12 (2022)
From March to May 2015, John Zorn composed 300 new tunes that were eventually collected into a book of music he called The Bagatelles. After five years of performances around the world in venues large...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – Incerto (2022)
Incerto is the birth of an exciting new modern jazz ensemble featuring the remarkable trio from Suite for Piano (Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, Ches Smith) joined by the brilliant guitarist Julian Lage....
View ArticleJohn Zorn – Multiplicities: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects (2022)
Multiplicities: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects is a book of twenty new Zorn compositions in the form of musical aphorisms. Inspired by the writings and thought of French philosopher Gilles...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – The Hermetic Organ Vol. 9: Liber VII (2022)
The one word virtually everyone can agree on in any discussion of the work of composer John Zorn is “prolific” in the strictest sense of the definition. Though the cornerstone of New York’s fabled and...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – Suite for Piano (2022)
Inspired in part by the Goldberg Variations and Schoenberg’s solo piano music, “Suite For Piano” is Zorn’s very personal take on some of the oldest traditional classical forms. It is performed here by...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – John Zorn’s Olympiad vol. 2: Fencing 1978 (2022)
Two extremely rare live recordings of the classic Zorn composition “Fencing” from the early days of the Downtown scene. Featuring two realisations of the piece – one recorded at Zorn’s artist loft The...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – Spinoza (2022)
Spinoza is Zorn’s latest creation for the searing jazz-metal trio Simulacrum — perhaps the most extreme organ trio ever. Inspired by the life and thought of one of the world’s greatest philosophers he...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – Perchance to Dream… (2022)
A beautiful suite of music for late night listening, spiritual and evocative, performed by an all-star unit of four members of Zorn’s inner circle. Structured like a religious mass, these seven lovely...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – The Ninth Circle (2021)
The latest recording by John Zorn’s newest ensemble Chaos Magick is a suite inspired by the ancient Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. Combining contemporary classical with jazz, funk, rock, blues,...
View ArticleJohn Zorn – A Garden of Forking Paths (2022)
This is the fifth CD of new music written expressly for the all-star guitar trio of Bill Frisell, Julian Lage and Gyan Riley. Here Zorn draws inspiration from the enigmatic short stories of Argentine...
View ArticleBill Laswell & John Zorn – The Cleansing (2022)
Although they’ve been musical compatriots since the late ’70s, John Zorn and Bill Laswell have teamed up for their first recorded duo project. The Cleansing features the artists on just alto saxophone...
View ArticleMiles Okazaki, Trevor Dunn, Dan Weiss, John Zorn – Hive Mind (2021)
A new collective trio of New York luminaries from bassist Trevor Dunn, guitarist Miles Okazaki and drummer Dan Weiss, Okazaki and Weiss having collaborated in Weiss’ own Large Ensemble and Dunn a part...
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