Audio - John Zorn, Hockey / Escrime / Rugby, 1983.

 

 

Audio - New Masada Quartet, Zorn@70, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 01 Sept 2023

 

 

En vrac (163) - Mai/juin 2025

 
Photos :
- JACK Quartet and John Zorn, The Drawing Center : 1 - 2.
- Mika Stoltzman, Richard Stoltzman, Fred Sherry en répétition avec John  Zorn.
- John Zorn, Roulette, 23 mai.
- Enregistrement de Breathturn, de John Zorn, par Mika Stoltzman, Richard Stoltzman, Fred Sherry.

Courtes vidéos:
- Jorge Roeder solo avec le New Masada Quartet. 

Concerts :
- Sam Eatmond / National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Masada, 7 mars 2026, Birmingham, UK. 

Chronique de disques 
- Chaos Magick, 444 (The Last Psychedelic Blog). 
- John Zorn/Frisell/Lage/Riley, Nove Cantici Per Francesco d'Assisi (The Last Psychedelic Blog).

Brian Marsella Trio, Nocturnes

 

John Zorn: Nocturnes [#9326]

The fourth CD in Zorn’s remarkable series of piano trio recordings exploring classical forms, “Nocturnes” is an absolute delight. Preceded by “Suite for Piano” (2022), “Ballades” (2024), and the “Impromptus” (2025), “Nocturnes” is Zorn’s personal take on the beautiful tradition of night music. Touching on Chopin, Scriabin, Debussy, Berg, and more, the music is a wonderland of subtlety—dreamy, drifting, and utterly compelling. Brian, Jorge, and Ches, three of Zorn’s closest and most trusted collab-orators perform with their trademark telepathic interplay, and an uncanny sense of surprise and creativity. With a stunning virtuosity that is always at the service of the music, the trio opens up new doors with each successive recording. Gorgeous music for late night listening!

 

Pochette - Prolegomena

 A paraître en septembre :

John Zorn: Prolegomena [#9325]

This CD is about quality not quantity—less than thirty minutes in total, but absolutely some of the most incredible music Zorn has ever composed. Dramatic, intense, mercurial, challenging, and endlessly virtuosic, Zorn’s writing for strings is amongst the most exciting ever achieved in the classical world. Here he expands the fabulous JACK Quartet to a quintet and sextet with the addition of two of the most accomplished musicians in the New York scene: Yura Lee and Michael Nicolas. Composed in 2020, during the initial months of the COVID-19 lockdown, these are two of Zorn’s greatest masterpieces, beautifully recorded at Oktaven by Ryan Streber, and passionately performed by six members of Zorn’s inner circle. ESSENTIAL!

Staley, Mori, Zorn : Alchemical Theatre

 

Alchemical Theatre: [#4058]

Jim Staley
Ikue Mori
John Zorn

Friends and musical cohorts since the early 1980s, these three master improvisers come together to perform a freewheeling set of outrageous and mind-blowing improvisations. Recorded at Roulette, founded in 1978 and one of New York’s most adventurous venues, the music is full of surprising twists and jumps from one mood to another with mercurial synchronicity. Dedicated to the memory of Downtown theatrical genius Richard Foreman, “Alchemical Theatre” presents nine pieces of tele-pathic, counter-intuitive New York improvisation by three legendary figures of the Downtown scene.

Audio - New Masada Quartet, Miller Theater, 19 oct. 2023

 

Vidéo - Julian Lage - Karaim Intro - John Zorn with New Masada Quartet

 

Vidéo - Dalquiel - John Zorn with New Masada Quartet,Roulette, 23 mai 2025.

 

Vidéo - New Masada Quartet, Roulette, 23 mai 2025

 

Pochette - John Zorn / Dave Lombardo, Memories, Dreams, And Reflections

 
Parution : juillet 2025.

Tracklist:

1. Sacred Beasts
2. Brethren
3. A Dangerous Requiem
4. Scimitar
5. Hail and Thunder
6. Timestead
7. Santeria
8. Tractatus

Personnel:

John Zorn – alto saxophone
Dave Lombardo – drums

Naked City, Londres, 6 novembre 1988

 

En vrac (162) - Avril 2025

 
Photo : 
- John Zorn et Dave Lombardo.
- Cobra, The Drawing Center.
- La partition de Road Runner.
- Richard Stoltzaman avec la partition de Breathturn.
- John Zorn Hermetic Cartography, catalogue de l'exposition au Drawing Center.

Texte :
- Before the World Knew His Name: John Zorn in the 1980s (In Sheep's Clothing Hi Fi).
- Zorn on Paper (The Brooklyn Rail).

Courte vidéo :
- Expo John Zorn au Drawing Center.

Nouvelles pièces de musique de concert : 

Breathturn (2025) • duration: 9'00
A beautiful and soulful piece of Judaica written for Richard Stoltzman, MIka Stoltzman, and Fred Sherry.
clarinet, cello, marimba 

Notes on the Singular Assumption of Mystical Solidarity Approaching Nine Neological Approximations Illuminating the Eternal Return of the Same (2025) • duration: 4'00
A smoking hot encore piece for violin, cello, and piano—intense, driving, and exciting—with deep philosophical undertones.
violin, cello, piano

Audio - John Zorn's Masada live at the Ted Mann Concert Hall - April 14, 2001

 

Pochette - Fantasma

 
À paraître en juin.

Dave Lombardo - John Zorn : Memories, Dreams, and Reflections

Dave Lombardo - John Zorn : Memories, Dreams, and Reflections [#9324]

Friends and colleagues for over 25 years, John Zorn and Dave Lombardo are two of the most uncompromising and powerful musical visionaries in modern music and “Memories, Dreams, and Reflections” presents these two extreme virtuosos in an exciting session of pure improvisation. Drum shaman Dave Lombardo and renegade sax alchemist Zorn are at their freewheeling best here and their connection has never been tighter. Intense, telepathic, filled with love, surprise, respect, and an insatiable curiosity, this is an unexpected but inevitable meeting of two old friends who are also two modern musical masters. 

Audio - John Zorn et Ned Rothenberg, 1997

 

Fantasma

 

John Zorn: Fantasma [#9323]

Zorn’s compositions for classical soloists with rhythm section are among the most successful and powerful meetings of classical and jazz ever conceived—completely notated virtuosic scores for classical players augmented by improvisers who illuminate the music with surprise, support, and an imaginative unpredictability. Mining this magical world since 2010, the project reached its apotheosis in the acclaimed 2021 release Heaven and Earth Magick. Here that same quartet divides into different groupings to present a varied and dramatic program of new music at its complex, mischievous best. Joined by electronic wizard Ikue Mori on one track, Fantasma—Illusions from a Surrealist Mirror is an endlessly imaginative and compelling new project of dynamic cross-genre music from Downtown magus John Zorn.

En vrac (161) - Mars 2025

 

Courtes vidéos:
- John Zorn et Laurie Anderson, Roulette, 15 février.
- New Masada Quartet, The Drawing Center, 1er mars.

Photos :
- New Masada Quartet, The Drawing Center : 1 - 2 .
- "Theatre of Musical Optics", The Drawing Center.
- Catalogue de l'expo John Zorn au Drawing Center.

Articles :
- John Zorn’s “Hermetic Cartography” - A remarkable, career-spanning visual art exhibit at The Drawing Center (Jazz Times). 
- John Zorn : A new show of drawings, notebooks, and scores by the avant-garde composer reveals the private practices and processes of over fifty years of genre-defying works (4columns).

Concerts :
- New Masada Quartet, Roulette, 23 mai.
- Le Bester Quartet joue "Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass" de John Zorn, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londres, 25 avril.

Chroniques de disques :
- John Zorn - Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman (AOTY).
- The Dreamers, O'o (The Last Psychedelic Blog).
- John Zorn/The JACK Quartet - The Complete String Quartets (Dusted Magazine).
- John Zorn/The JACK Quartet - The Complete String Quartets (All Music).
- PainKiller, Samsara (Guts of Darkness).

Nouvelle pièce de musique de concert :

- Hymns at Heaven's Gate (2024) • duration: 9'

"Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain." A lush and evocative setting of two Shakespeare sonnets—140 and 141—for voice and piano with optional improvising rhythm section of bass and drums.

Audio - Brian Marsella Trio + John Medeski Trio, Bagatelles, Big Ears Festival 2023

 

 

Vidéo - Bateau Ivre (2011) — John Zorn, Eastman Musica Nova

 

 

Impromptus, par le trio de Brian Marsella

 

John Zorn: Impromptus [#9322]

With Suite for Piano in 2022, Zorn began exploring classical forms in the context of the jazz piano trio. The second CD in the series was a beautiful collection of Ballades, released in July 2024. This third project presents nine Impromptus—freewheeling forms that unfold like brilliantly imaginative short stories. Brian, Jorge, and Ches outdo themselves here with telepathic interplay, endless creativity, and a courageous ability to go places that have never been discovered before. With each new recording, this trio gets both tighter and more explorative. Essential!

En vrac (160) - Février 2025

Chroniques de disques :
- John Zorn/JACK Quartet, The Complete String Quartets (Avant Music News).
- Naked City, 1990 (Pienemmat Purot).

Photos:
- John Zorn, Torino Jazz Festival, 2024.
- Exposition Zorn au Drawing Center : 1 - 2 - 3

Audio :
- Electric Masada,  live at the Walker Art Center, Feb. 17, 2006.

Texte :
- John Zorn and Laurie Anderson Reunite in Brooklyn (JazzTimes).

 

Vidéo - New Masada Quartet, Porgy and Bess, 30 avril 2024

 

 

John Zorn: Impromptus

John Zorn: Impromptus [#9322]

With Suite for Piano in 2022, Zorn began exploring classical forms in the context of the jazz piano trio. The second CD in the series was a beautiful collection of Ballades, released in July 2024. This third project presents nine Impromptus—freewheeling forms that unfold like brilliantly imaginative short stories. Brian, Jorge, and Ches outdo themselves here with telepathic interplay, endless creativity, and a courageous ability to go places that have never been discovered before. With each new recording, this trio gets both tighter and more explorative. Essential! 

Audio - John Zorn's New Masada Quartet @ The Drawing Center March 2025

 

Audio - John Zorn interview and performance of "Rugby" - July 5, 1984 Hartford, CT.

 

PainKiller, The Great God Pan

 

À paraître en avril : 

PainKiller, The Great God Pan.

The reunion of PainKiller, the world’s most extreme sax-bass-drums trio, was one of the great musical events of 2024. For the third installment of their new trilogy of albums, Zorn, Harris, and Laswell take a more moody direction, creating two long tracks combining heavy metal intensity with ambient textures and a brooding lyricism. Inspired in part by Arthur Machan’s gothic novella The Great God Pan, the music weaves a frightening tapestry of mystery, horror, and the imagination.

En vrac (159) - Janvier 2025

 
Photos :
- John Zorn en couverture du magazine Bad Alchemy, 1989.
- John Zorn et Jorge Roeder au MET.
- JACK Quartet et Ikue Mori, Roulette.
- John Zorn / JACK Quartet, The Complete String Quartets.

Chroniques de disques :
- PainKiller, Samsara (The Free Jazz Collective).
- John Zorn / JACK Quartet, The Complete String Quartets (Strings Magazine).

Compte-rendu :
- Jumalattaret par Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou, Paris (Olyrix).

Concerts :
- New Masada Quartet, Philadelphie, 2 mars.

 

En vrac (158) - Décembre 2024

 

Chroniques de disques :
- PainKiller, Samsara (Album of the Year).
- PainKiller, Samsara (Hybrid Moments).
- PainKiller, Samsara (Delay and Distorsion).
- PainKiller, Samsara (Burning Ambulance).
- PainKiller, Samsara (Avant Music News).
- Secret Chiefs 3, Malkhut, Masada Book 3 (Progarchives).
- John Zorn/JACK Quartet, The Complete String Quartets (Broadway World).
- New Masada Quartet. Volume 3 (Diario de Sevilla, en espagnol).
- New Masada Quartet. Volume 3 (The Free Jazz Collective).

Photos :
- Barbara Hannigan et Bertrand Chamayou en t-shirt Messiaen / Zorn.
- John Zorn avec Bertrand Chamayou et Barbara Hannigan.

Concerts :
- Trigger plays Zorn's Bagatelles, The Stone, New York, 18 juin 2025.
- Improv night with John Zorn, The Stone, New York, 4 juin 2025.
- Brian Marsella joue John Zorn, The Stone, New York, 13-16 août 2025.

Texte :
- Spillane, by John Zorn: Aural Cinema and the Lettrist Legacy (Springer).

Pochette - Chaos Magick, Through The Looking Glass

Chaos Magick, Through The Looking Glass (mars2025)

Chaos Magick: Through The Looking Glass

 À paraître en mars : 

Chaos Magick: Through The Looking Glass [#9320]
Medeski, Marsella, Hollenberg, and Grohowski are Chaos Magick—a powerful electric quartet formed to perform Zorn’s twisted and challenging compositions. Founded in 2021 as a spinoff of the heavy metal organ trio Simulacrum, they have released no less than five CDS in three years—Chaos Magick, The Ninth Circle, Multiplicities, 444, and Parrhesiastes. Their sixth, Through the Looking Glass, presents three extended works that unfold like a philosophical treatise. Sweet, funky, soulful, imaginative, quirky, and intensely stimulating, this is music that pushes formal musical ideas into fresh new directions. The phrase “Nothing is real—everything is permitted” has never had greater meaning.

Vidéo - John Zorn and Ryan Streber

 

Vidéo - Jennifer Choi, Hockey, The Stone

 

 Jennifer Choi (violon) James Moore (guitare) Kathleen Supove (piano), The Stone, 30 août 2024.

Pochette _-The Equinox

 PainKiller, The Equinox (février 2025)