The Cleansing |
Perchance To Dream... |
Spinoza |
A Garden Of Forking Paths |
Suite For Piano |
John Zorn’s Olympiad - vol. 2 Fencing 1978  |
The Hermetic Organ Volume 9 - Liber VII  |
Incerto |
| Multiplicities: A Repository Of Non-Existent Objects  |
The Hermetic Organ Volume 10 - Bozar, Brussels  |
John Zorn's Olympiad - vol. 3 Pops Plays Pops  |
Song of Songs |
Bagatelles vol. 3  |
Asmodeus |
Julian Lage and Gyan Riley |
Jim Black Quartet |
Cleric |
Photos :
- New Masada Quartet : 1 - 2 - 3.
- Enregistrement d'un volume des Bagatelles avec Zorn, Chris Speed, Jon Irabagon, Christian McBride, Ches Smith.
- Enregistrement d'un album de Brian Marsella : 1 - 2.
Courts vidéos :
- New Masada Quartet.
Chroniques de disques :
- The Hermetic Organ St.Paul's hall, Hudderfield (Tzadikology).
- John Zorn’s Olympiad - Vol. 1 Dither Plays Zorn (Tzadikology).
- Simulacrum, Spinoza (Sputnik Music).
- Incerto (Tracking Angle).
Concerts :
- John Zorn au festival Big Ears, 1-2 avril 2023.
John Zorn: The Fourth Way [#8397]
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 textural madness and is brilliantly performed by a tight trio of musical masters—treasured members of Zorn's innermost circle. Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, and Ches Smith form a fiery, soulful unit capable of jumping from a whisper to a scream at the drop of a hat. Following up on their acclaimed debut Suite for Piano, they continue their exploration of Zorn's challenging compositions in this stunning collection of music that transports you to a beautiful new world of spirituality and emotional depth.
(February 2023)
John Zorn: New Masada Quartet, Volume Two [#8396]
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 classic compositions from the Masada songbooks.
One of the best bands Zorn has ever had, here they are tighter than ever, and the performances are filled with burning solos, telepathic group interaction, heartfelt lyricism, and hypnotic grooves. Spontaneously structured by Zorn’s ever surprising conducting techniques, a crackling live energy brings the Masada music to life like never before. Masada at its passionate best.
(January 2023)
J’enseigne la musique dans une école primaire de Montréal. Il y a un an, j'ai écrit à TZADIK pour demander la permission d'interpréter des pièces de Zorn avec mes élèves dans le cadre d’un concours. C'est le maestro lui-même qui a répondu, et il a exprimé sa curiosité d'entendre ce que nous faisions. Nous avons profité de l’occasion pour lui faire parvenir un enregistrement hommage senti de compositions originales collectives des élèves, inspirées par certains éléments de son langage musical et sa démarche compositionnelle. Nous avons eu le plaisir de recevoir une correspondance de sa part dans laquelle il nous a généreusement témoigné son appréciation de notre travail.
Photos :
- John Zorn et Rob Burger.
- Édition originale vinyle de Archery.
Concerts :
- Duo John Zorn / Laurie Anderson, Concert for Ukraine, The New School, New York, 9 décembre.
- John Zorn au cinéma - Mathieu Amalric filme la musique à l’oeuvre (Citizen Jazz) : dates et lieux des prochaines présentations des films d'Amalric sur Zorn.
- Les films de Mathieu Amalric sur John Zorn présentés à Genève le 26 novembre.
À paraître en décembre :
John Zorn’s Olympiad Vol. 3 - Pops Plays Pops - Eugene Chadbourne Plays The Book Of Heads
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 points for improvisation, the score uses an hermetic language of meticulously notated sounds inspired by contemporary classical extended techniques, cartoons, film noir, Zen philosophy, and the idiosyncratic guitar languages of free improvisation via Chadbourne, Frith, Bailey et al. Interpreted here by the madcap virtuoso they were originally created for: Eugene Chadbourne, they receive a passionate and creative interpretation—looser, wilder and more open than the textbook readings of James Moore and Marc Ribot. Vexingly entertaining, this curious release contains fifteen of the original 35 études: sixty minutes of the most gonzo music ever created for solo guitar!
(December 2022)
Le troisième coffret des bagatelles est disponible en pré-vente :
Audio :
- Interview de John Zorn de 1994.
Chroniques de disques :
- Brian Marsella Trio - Suite for Piano.
- John Zorn: A Garden of Forking Paths (Distrito Jazz, en espagnol).
- John Zorn / George Lewis / Bill Frisell: News for Lulu (1987) (Landolt-C)
Photos :
- Ticket pour Cobra à Tonic.
- Barbara Hannigan, Stephen Gosling, Jorge Roeder, Ches Smith au Festival Lausitz.
- Programme de la journée Zorn au festival November Music 2017.
- John Zorn & Kenny Wollesen, Tonic, 2001.
Concert :
- New Masada Quartet, Roulette, New York, 27 novembre 2022.
- John Zorn 70th Birthday Celebration, Big Ears Festival, 2023.
Texte:
- John Zorn's Olympics, the Game Pieces at Maximum Power (Neuguitars.com).
- Cobra enseigné à The New School.
Le troisième coffret des bagatelles : Asmodeus, Cleric, Julian Lage & Gyan Riley, Jim Black Quartet.
Date de parution encore inconnue.
A paraître en novembre : The Hermetic Organ Vol. 10 - Bozar, Brussels.
Á paraître en novembre :
John Zorn: The Hermetic Organ Volume 10 - Bozar, Brussels [#8394]
Recorded at the powerful organ at Henry LeBoeuf Hall, Bozar in Brussels, this is one of Zorn’s most beautiful and personal solo performances—a dramatic musical reading of the epic Faust legend. Featuring a guest appearance by the sensational vocalist
Barbara Hannigan, who is improvising with Zorn for the very first time—this exciting concert is presented here in a special limited edition 2-disc set that includes both a CD and a bonus DVD hi-quality film document of the event. No one plays the organ quite like Zorn and many of his unusual techniques, usually hidden in performance, are presented in close focus. Beautifully filmed by state of the art equipment, this is a wild and colorful concert by two mavericks of new music. Essential!
Open Jazz consacré aux 3 dernières parutions de John Zorn, en réécoute :
A paraître en octobre : Chaos Magick, Multiplicities: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects.
Multiplicities: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects is book of twenty new Zorn compositions in the form of musical aphorisms. Inspired by the writings and thought of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the music is wildly imaginative and meticulously structured, filled with unexpected twists and turns jumping from rock, jazz, and classical, to funk, metal, and more. This first volume presents the first ten aphorisms performed by Zorn’s dynamic new ensemble Chaos Magick. John Medeski, Brian Marsella, Matt Hollenberg, and Kenny Grohowski (four members of Zorn’s innermost circle) perform with an intense passion and painstaking attention to detail. Filled with fiery solos and bizarre juxtapositions, this is a multifaceted exploration of instrumental music at its wildest extremes.
Courts vidéos:
- John Zorn et Chaos Magick en studio.
Photos :
- Le fanzine Days of Zorn.
- Pochette : Multiplicities (Chaos Magick).
New Masada Quartet à Lisbonne:
- Court vidéos : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6
- Photos : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 (20 photos) - 5 -
Concerts:
-
Nouvelle pièce de musique de concert :
Partita for the Firebird (2022) • duration: 15'
A suite for solo violin inspired by Bach and haunted by the ghost of Stravinsky's Firebird. Lyrical, soulful, and mysterious, it is divided into four traditional movements: Prelude-Allemande / Pavane / Courante / Air.
solo violin
Chroniques de disques :
- Iao / Music In Sacred Light (Forces parallèles).
- Eugene Chadbourne / John Zorn / Steve Beresford / Toshinori Konfo - The Beast of 20,000 Fathoms.
Photos :
- Zorn et Chaos Magick en studio.
- John Zorn, Bobby Previte, Mark Dresser, 1988.
- Cobra au Museum of the City of New York.
Courts vidéos :
- Le studio et les instruments pour la session d'enregistrement de Chaos Magick.
- Un extrait volé du Zorn III (2018-2022) de Mathieu Amalric.
Compte-rendu :
- Festival di Spoleto : Barbara Hannigan canta John Zorn.
Le fanzine Day of Zorn : 1 - 2.
John Zorn au Molde Jazz Festival (Norvège) :
- Photo :
Lage, Riley, Frisell.
Brian Marsella Trio (15 photos).
Lage, Riley, Frisell (21 photos).
Marsella, Lage, Roeder et Wollesen.
New Masada Trio/Quartet (avec Lage et Marsella) (5 photos).
Mary Halvorson Quartet (17 photos).
Bagatelles Marathon, les musiciens sur scène : 1 - 2.
Bagatelles Marathon (7 photos).
Bagatelles Marathon (3 photos).
Conférence de presse par écran interposé.
- Courts vidéos :
Brian Marsella Trio (2 vidéos).
- Comptes-rendus :
Mystisisme og nevemagnetisme (jazzinorge.no).
New New Masada Quartet Trio: Ånden som leverer (Puls).
John Zorn: Bagateller i redusert form (Puls).
Meningsfull sløsing med jazzeliten (jazzinorge.no).
Å paraître en septembre :
Incerto
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. A quartet capable of anything, this is the perfect group to realize Zorn’s quirky compositional twists and turns. The music is wildly varied—maddeningly complex, powerfully driving, heartbreakingly beautiful—and embraces complex meter changes, atonal melodies, unusual harmonies, and bizarre structural complexity. Inspired by Freud, Sartre, and the Uncertainty Principle, the music explores possibilities, probabilities, inevitabilities, and impossibilities.
À paraître en août :
The Hermetic Organ Vol. 9 - Liber VII
Filled with wild sounds, bizarre juxtapositions, soulful melodies, and pulsating drones, this outrageous recital is one of Zorn’s very best. Inspired by Aleister Crowley’s Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli, and performed in a kind of trance state, this is music beyond thought, beyond beauty, beyond rationality. Recorded at St. John’s Cathedral in Knoxville, Tennessee during the 2022 Big Ears Festival, this is Zorn at his metaphysical zenith. Organ improvisations with Mystery at its very heart—you have never heard such sounds!
Photos :
- Ticket Naked City reunion, 2003.
- Programme Concert bénéfice pour l'Ukraine, Roulette, 29 mai.
- New Masada Quartet/Quintet, Roulette.
- Concert bénéfice pour l'Ukraine : New Masada Quartet; Frisell-Zorn-Anderson, etc. 1 - 2 .
- New Masada Quartet, The Sultan Room : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -
- John Zorn en studio avec Brian Marsella, Julian Lage, Jorge Roeder, Ches Smith et Kenny Wollesen : 1 - 2.
- The Song of Song.
- Programme Tribute to Derek Bailey, 2006.
- Poster, Zorn's Fourth Annual Spring Olympiad, 1981.
- John Zorn et Barbara Hannigan.
Concerts :
- New Masada Quartet, Village Vanguard, 28 août.
- Barbara Hannigan, Festival di Spoleto, 3 juillet.
- Barbara Hannigan chante Zorn, Lausitz Festival, Allemagne, 9 septembre.
Chroniques de disques :
- John Zorn and Bill Laswell - The Cleansing (Music and More).
- Eugene Chadbourne / John Zorn - The Beast of 20,000 Fathoms (Downtown Music Gallery).
- Spinoza (Avant Music News).
- Tous les disques du Quartet Masada (Bristol Jazz Crew).
Vidéo:
- New Masada Quartet, The Sultan Room : 1 - 2.
- John Zorn et Brian Marsella font les pitres.
Archives :
- Affiche Masada Marathon à Bogota, 2015.
- Poster : BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - John Zorn: A Portrait.
- Affiche signée, Zorn / Patton.
- Affiche Masada.
- Affiche Zorn / Masada, Barbican 2000.
- Affiche : DJ John Zorn.
- Affiche Masada 1999.
- Billet de concert John Zorn-Bill Laswell, 2002.
- Billet de concert John Zorn - A Tribute to Derek Bailey, 2006.
Compte-rendu :
- John Zorn's The Bagatelles, Sam Eastmond (London Jazz News).
- Hersch, Zorn, Neselovskyi Embrace Message of Hope at Roulette Ukraine Benefit (Downbeat).
Chroniques de disques :
- Perchance to Dream (Music and More).
- Cobra / John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2 (2002) (Forces parallèles).
- Chaos Magick et The Ninth Circle (Avant Music News).
- Simulacrum, Nostradamus: The Death of Satan (Avant Music News).
- Simularum, Spinoza (The Telegraph).
- Filmworks X (Forces parallèles).
Courts vidéos :
- Cobra, Roulette.
- Jon Madof joue Abidan.
Concert :
- Simulacrum, Pori, Finlande, 18 mai.
- Concert-bénéfice pour l'Ukraine, Roulette, 29 mai (New Masada Quartet; Zorn/Laurie Anderson).
- New Masada Quartet, Village Vanguard, 22 mai.
- New Masada Quartet, Lisbonne, 7 août.
Photos :
- Programme de l'Elbphilharmonie signé par Zorn et plusieurs musiciens.
- Ribot, Dunn, Grohoswki en studio avec Zorn.
- Affiche John Zorn's the Bagatelles.
- New Masada Quartet, Village Vanguard.
- Simulacrum, Spinoza.
- Chris Otto et Jay Campbell, Jewsih Museum, 1er mai (15 photos).
- John Zorn.
- Simulacrum à Pori, Finlande : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
Nouvelles pièces de musique de concert :
Philosophical Investigations (2022) • duration: 11'
A trialogue for violin, cello, and piano inspired by the writings and philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
vn, vcl, pno
- Discographie : John Zorn: Ranked. A list by TheJoeyTaylor.
- John Zorn's Groups, texte sur certains groupes de Zorn.
Photos :
- John Zorn & Dave Douglas.
- John Zorn en entrevue : 1 - 2
- John Zorn; Heaven and Earth Magick.
- Brian Marsella Trio : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
- Billet de concert Zorn-Patton 2008.
- Song for Petra : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6
- Simulacrum : 1 - 2
- John Zorn, The Hermetic Organ : 1 - 2 - 3
- Stephen Gosling : 1 - 2 - 3
- Chaos Magick, Big Ears : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
- Heaven and Earth Magick : 1 - 2 - 3
- New Masada Quartet : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
- New Electric Masada : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
- Simulacrum / Chaos Magick.
- Divers : 1
- John Zorn solo + Naked Lunch.
Courts vidéos :
- Simulacrum : 1 - 2 - 3
- Brian Marsella Trio : 1 - 2 - 3
- John Zorn à l'orgue.
- New Electric Masada : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
- New Masada Quartet.
Vidéos:
- Chaos Magick.
- New ELectric Masada.
Comptes-rendus :
- Big Ears - my Zorn-centric experience (Reddit).
- AMN Reviews: Big Ears 2022 (Avant Music News).
- Réflexions sur Zorn à Hambourg (Citizen Jazz).
À paraître en juillet :
John Zorn: John Zorn’s Olympiad - vol. 2 Fencing 1978 [#8390]
Two extremely rare live recordings of the classic Zorn composition Fencing from the early days of the Downtown scene. Featuring two realizations of the piece—one recorded at Zorn’s artist loft The Theatre of Musical Optics with Eugene Chadbourne, Duck Baker, and Randy Hutton on guitars—and the other at Bard College with Chadbourne, Polly Bradfield, and John Zorn, a legendary concert that took place with George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, and Roscoe Mitchell in the audience. The music is astonishing—strange sounds, odd juxtapositions, stark silences, sudden explosions, all held together by a bizarre overarching compositional logic. Featuring a 16-page booklet replete with photos, scores, and extensive notes and remembrances by Zorn, Chadbourne, Baker, and George Lewis, this is a collector’s dream. Vexing and powerful sounds from the 1978 New York Underground!
Photos:
- Carte d'accès Reflektor John Zorn.
- Brian Marsella; Lage-Riley, Bagatelles.
- Masada Quartet / New Masada Quartet : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10.
- Sacred Music (Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Gyan Riley; vocal ensemble) : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 (+Petra Haden, Stephen Gosling).
- Songs for Petra : 1 - 2 - 3.
- JACK Quartet, Barbara Hannigan : 1 (+Zorn) - 2 - 3 - 4 .
- Cobra : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5.
- Barbada Hannigan & Stephen Gosling.
- The Song of Songs : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 .
- The Hermetic Organ.
- Brian Marsella Trio.
- Barbara Hannigan, Stephen Gosling; Song of Songs; JACK Quartet; The Hermetic Organ.
- Zorn, Barbara Hannigan, The Hermetic Organ, JACK Quartet, Amalric.
- Barbara Hannigan & John Zorn.
- The Song of Songs; JACK Quartet; Heaven & Earth Magick.
- New Electric Masada : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8.
- Heaven and Eart Magick + Zorn.
- John Zorn : 1 - 2.
- New Electric Masada; Gnostic Trio; Brian Marsella Trio.
- Masada Quartet; Marsella; Hannigan; Songs for Petra; Sacred Music, Zorn.
Courts vidéos :
- Masada Quartet / New Masada Quartet : 1 - 2.
- Cobra : 1 -2 (2 vidéos).
- The Hermetic Organ : 1 - 2.
- Barbara Hannigan & Stephen Gosling : 1 - 2
- The Song of Songs.
- JACK Quartet et John Zorn.
- Installation, en accéléré, de la scène pour New Electric Masada.
- Brian Marsella Trio.
- Gnostic Trio.
- New Electric Masada : 1 - 2 - 3.
- Brian Marsella solo.
- Julian Lage & Gyan Riley.
- Masada Quartet.
- New Masada Quartet.
- Masada Quartet et New Masada Quartet.
- Sacred music, groupe vocal.
- Julian Lage, Gyan Riley, Bill Frisell.
- Songs for Petra.
- Heaven and Earth Magick.
- JACK Quartet.
Textes :
- Reinlich und radikal (Taz.de, en allemand).
- John Zorn goes epic at the Elbphilharmonie (Jazzwise).
Vidéos :
- Masada Quartet et New Masada Quartet (4:31).
- New Electric Masada (3:13).
- New Electric Masada (5:53).
Émission de radio :
- John Zorn vier Tage zu Gast in der Elbphilharmonie; Jenseits der Genres (Deutschlandfunk, en allemand).
Compte-rendu :
- John Zorn, Elbphilharmonie (The Brooklyn Rail).
- Reflektor John Zorn (Jazz Magazine).
- John Zorn Reflektor Series at Elb Philharmonic (All About Jazz).
Les musiciens du Masada Quartet et ceux du New Masada Quartet, Elbphilharmonie de Hambourg, 18 mars :
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=376583694473776&id=100063664442467
Photos :
- Mathieu Amalric présente ses films sur Zorn au Centre Pompidou.
- Gyan Riley et Julian Lage en studio avec Zorn pour un enregistrement des Bagatelles.
- John Zorn, Barbara Hannigan, Stephen Gosling.
- Programme du concert pour l'Ukraine.
- New Masada Quartet, concert pour l'Ukraine. 1 - 2.
- John Zorn (sans lieu, sans date).
Concerts:
- Concert bénéfice pour l'Ukraine (avec le duo John Zorn / Laurie Anderson et le New Masada Quartet.
- New Masada Quartet, Village Vanguard, 24 avril.
- Three Premieres, Roulette, 11 mai.
Vidéos :
- Documentaire sur Morton Bartlett qui a inspiré la musique de Family Found (Filmworks XII); John Zorn interviewé à 5:51 and 7:18.
Courts vidéos :
- John Zorn et Laurie Anderson, concert pour l'Ukraine.
- John Zorn et Philip Glass, concert pour l'Ukraine.
- Zorn, Barbara Hannigan et Stephen Gosling en répétition (extrait de Zorn III).
- New Masada Quartet, concert pour l'Ukraine.
- Message de John Zorn à l'occasion de Reflektor à l'Elbphilharmonie.
Chronique de disques :
- A Garden of Forking Paths (Progarchives).
John Zorn: Multiplicities: A Repository Of Non-Existent Objects [#8390]
Written in December of 2020, Multiplicities: A Repository of Non-Existent Objects is collection of twenty philosophical aphorisms inspired by the writings and thought of Gilles Deleuze. Hearkening back to the intensity of the hardcore miniatures of Torture Garden, this is a wildly varied and multifaceted exploration of instrumental music at its most extreme. Featuring Zorn’s newest ensemble Chaos Magick, a satellite of Simulacrum, the performances are passionate, tight, and filled with unexpected twists and turns.
John Zorn: Suite For Piano [#8389]
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 one of the most dedicated, virtuosic, and passionate interpreters in the Zorn universe, Brian Marsella, whose educational experience (too “jazz” for the classical world and too “classical” for the jazz world) makes him the perfect interpreter of Zorn’s cross-pollinating musical poetics. Accompanied by the telepathic rhythm section of Jorge Roeder and Ches Smith (Heaven and Earth Magick) this is a beautiful and soulful program of music for the classic instrumentation of piano, bass, and drums.
Concerts:
- Simulacrum, Pori, Finlande, 18 mai.
Photos :
- New Masada Quartet, Village Vanguard : 1 - 2 - 3.
- Bill Laswell et The Cleansing.
- John Zorn, juillet 2021 : 1 - 2 .
- Zorn en studio avec Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder et Ches Smith.
Court vidéo :
- Zorn en studio avec Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder et Ches Smith.
Chroniques de disques :
- Bagatelles, vol. 5-8 (The Free Jazz Collective).
- John Zorn / Bill Laswell, The Cleansing (Allaboutjazz.com).
- Filmworks IX - Trembling before G-d (Forces parallèles).
- Madness, Love And Mysticism (Forces parallèles).
- Masada, Hei (Forces parallèles).
- Best of Tzadik Records 2021 - 5 cd de John Zorn (Can this even be called Music).
- New Masada Quartet (en néerlandais), (ProgJazz.nl).
- New Masada Quartet (Forces parallèles).
Textes :
- Présentation des concerts de Hambourg : John Zorn, Hamburg concert hall, 17-20th March (Phacemag).
- John Zorn, the Master of Change, sur la page de l'Elbphilharmonie.
- Interview avec Axel Zielke sur John Zorn (en allemand), (Elbphilharmonie).
Film:
- Présentation des 3 films de Mathieu Amalric sur Zorn au cinéma Réel du Centre Pompidou à Paris, le 14 mars.
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