dimanche 25 mai 2025
samedi 24 mai 2025
jeudi 22 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
lundi 19 mai 2025
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
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.
jeudi 10 avril 2025
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.
mardi 8 avril 2025
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 :
Impromptus, par le trio de Brian Marsella
dimanche 16 mars 2025
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).
jeudi 6 mars 2025
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!
mercredi 5 mars 2025
mercredi 26 février 2025
lundi 24 février 2025
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.
dimanche 23 février 2025
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.
mardi 4 février 2025
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).
vendredi 24 janvier 2025
mardi 21 janvier 2025
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.
jeudi 9 janvier 2025
Vidéo - Jennifer Choi, Hockey, The Stone
Jennifer Choi (violon) James Moore (guitare) Kathleen Supove (piano), The Stone, 30 août 2024.