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