The Woodstock Jazz Festival was held in 1981 in Woodstock, New York .
65-614: It was a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio , founded in 1971 by Karl Berger and Ornette Coleman . The shows headliners were Jack Dejohnette , Chick Corea , Pat Metheny , Anthony Braxton , Lee Konitz , and Miroslav Vitouš . Other musicians include Dewey Redman , Nana Vasconcelos , Baikida Carroll , Collin Walcott , Aiyb Dieng , Ed Blackwell , Howard Johnson and Marilyn Crispell . It has been released several times on DVD. It
130-437: A "compositional workshop" to test the limitations of a rock band format. Featuring Zorn (saxophone), Bill Frisell (guitars), Fred Frith (bass), Wayne Horvitz (keyboards), Joey Baron (drums), and vocalist Yamatsuka Eye (and later Mike Patton ), Naked City blended Zorn's appreciation of hardcore punk and grindcore bands like Agnostic Front and Napalm Death with influences like film music, country or jazz often in
195-747: A Virgin (1991) and Buried Secrets (1992), also featured short grindcore and free jazz -inspired compositions. They released their first live album, Rituals: Live in Japan , in 1993, followed by the double CD Execution Ground (1994), which featured longer dub and ambient-styled pieces. A second live album, Talisman: Live in Nagoya , was released in 2002 and the band was featured on Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 12 (2005) with Hamid Drake replacing Harris on drums and guest vocalist Mike Patton . Both bands attracted worldwide interest, particularly in Japan, where Zorn had relocated following
260-622: A body of music. Based on a 45-acre campus with multiple residences, workshop rooms and performance halls, hundreds of Guiding Artists, including several MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award winners ( George Lewis , John Zorn , Cecil Taylor , John Cage , Charlie Haden ), lived, played and shared musical wisdom with thousands of participants, many of whom became well-known musicians, including Peter Apfelbaum , Steven Bernstein , Cyro Baptista , Marilyn Crispell , Sylvain Leroux and John Zorn . The CMS facility closed in 1984, but its masterclasses continued in
325-415: A day for a week, just orchestrating these file cards. It was an intense process. Zorn's file-card method of organizing sound blocks into an overall structure largely depended on the musicians he chose, the way they interpreted what was written on the file cards, and their relationship with Zorn who stated "At the end of the day, I want players to say: this was fun—it was a lot of fucking work, and it's one of
390-635: A group called the Crowley Quartet. A 2009 performance of the album's centerpiece Necronomicon was described as "... frenetic vortexes of violent, abrasive motion, separated by eerily becalmed, suspenseful sections with moody, even prayerful melodies. The music is sensational and evocative, but never arbitrary; you always sense a guiding hand behind the mayhem". Later works expanded to include vocal and operatic works; Mysterium released in 2005 featured Frammenti del Sappho for female chorus; Rituals (2005) featured Zorn's opera composed for
455-404: A masterful bebop alto player, but when he does perform in something approaching that style his playing has little of the tension and none of the relaxation of the great beboppers, often sounding more strangulated than anything". Zorn stated that "After my record The Big Gundown came out I was convinced that a lot of soundtrack work was going to be coming my way". While interest from Hollywood
520-652: A month this time." I've been working on these scales and playing these tunes all this time. In the back of my head somewhere are lodged all kinds of new ideas. Let's see if I can come up with 100 tunes in a month instead of in a year. So in the first month, I popped out a hundred tunes; the second month, another hundred; in the third month, a third 100 tunes. I had no idea that was going to happen. Zorn released thirty-two volumes of Masada Book Two compositions performed by many varied artists. The titles of many Masada Book Two compositions are derived from demonology and Judeo-Christian mythology . The Masada quartet performed at
585-654: A place where music as a universal language could be explored and expanded. They called it the Creative Music Studio, or CMS. Courses began in 1972. Established in New York as a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, for most of its 40 years, the organization's main program was the CMS at a physical location in Woodstock, NY, where musicians from all over the world lived, played, interacted with each other and created
650-759: A player's trust before they can play my music." Leaving Webster after three semesters, Zorn lived on the West Coast before returning to Manhattan where he gave concerts in his apartment and other small NY venues, playing saxophone and a variety of reeds, duck calls , tapes, and other instruments. Zorn immersed himself in the underground art scene, assisting filmmaker Jack Smith with his performances and attending plays by Richard Foreman . Zorn's early major compositions included many game pieces described as "complex systems harnessing improvisers in flexible compositional formats". These compositions "involved strict rules, role playing, prompters with flashcards, all in
715-448: A second New Year's Intensive. • CMS's Woodstock Workshop Orchestra takes a four-week tour of Europe. The orchestra includes Karl and Ingrid, Oliver Lake, Lee Konitz, Trilok Gurtu, Don Cherry, George Lewis, and many CMS participants. • The first of a series of annual world-music summer festivals/seminars includes Don Cherry, Trilok Gurtu, Steve Gorn, Alhaji Bai Konte, Nana Vasconcelos, Guilherme Franco, and others. • Roscoe Mitchell leads
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#1732782642173780-736: A series of commercial soundtracks for the advertising firm Wieden+Kennedy , including one directed by Jean-Luc Godard , a long-term Zorn inspiration. Zorn used his film commissions to record new ensembles like Masada and the Masada String Trio . From the mid-1990s, Zorn composed film music for independent films dealing with BDSM and LGBT culture , documentaries exploring the Jewish experience, and films about outsider artists . In 2013, after releasing 25 volumes in his Filmworks Series, Zorn announced that he would no longer be releasing music for film. Zorn established Naked City in 1988 as
845-464: A series of duets by Zorn with Michihiro Sato on shamisen , which received limited release on the Yukon label in 1984. Zorn has subsequently reissued these early recordings. Zorn's breakthrough came in 1986 with the acclaimed The Big Gundown released on Nonesuch Records . The album was endorsed by composer Ennio Morricone, who said: "This is a record that has fresh, good and intelligent ideas. It
910-422: A single composition. The band performed pieces by film composers Ennio Morricone, John Barry , Johnny Mandel and Henry Mancini and modern classicists Alexander Scriabin , Claude Debussy , Charles Ives , and Olivier Messiaen and recorded heavy metal and ambient albums. In 1991, Zorn formed Painkiller with Bill Laswell on bass and Mick Harris on drums. Painkiller's first two releases, Guts of
975-476: A special benefit night at The Stone which was also released on The Stone: Issue Three on CD. In December 2016 Zorn announced that The Stone would close in February 2018 but that he was hopeful that a new location could be found, stating "Venues come and go, but the music continues on forever!" By March 2017 Zorn had negotiated with The New School to move The Stone to Greenwich Village. On February 25, 2018,
1040-441: A suite dedicated to Jean Genet , was released in 1992. The establishment of Tzadik allowed him to release many compositions which he had written over the previous two decades for classical ensembles. Zorn's earliest released classical composition, Christabel (1972) for five flutes, first appeared on Angelus Novus in 1998. He credits the composition of his 1988 string quartet Cat O' Nine Tails (commissioned and released by
1105-745: A summer session with workshops by Joseph Jarman, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, Leo Smith, and A. Spencer Barefield. 1980 • New Year's Intensive session features Cecil Taylor. • Karl conducts “Advanced Studies in Improvisational Composition” at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts in Banff, Alberta, Canada, with Dave Holland, Sam Rivers, Ed Blackwell, Frederic Rzewski, and others. • Summer world-music festival includes Jerry Gonzalez, Aiyb Dieng, Mandingo Griot Society with Adam Rudolph, Ismet Siral, Haci Tekbilek, and many of
1170-704: A three-month residency in Tokyo. In 2006, Zorn formed the voice/bass/drums trio of Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn , and Joey Baron as "a compositional challenge, as a song cycle, songs without words" as he decided "I want to work with Patton more; Patton was very hungry to do more work together. ‘OK, so let's start it with just bass, drums, and voice". Rolling Stone said Moonchild was "a band that, much like Naked City, mutated radically across its lifespan as Zorn kept raising his compositional bar. While it touched on similar extremes as that group... its episodes are more sustained, its structures more conventionally songlike" noting "For
1235-437: Is an American composer , conductor , saxophonist , arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". His avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz , rock , Jewish music , hardcore , classical , contemporary , surf , metal , soundtrack , ambient , and world music . Rolling Stone noted that "[alt]hough Zorn has operated almost entirely outside
1300-600: Is realization on a high level, a work done by a maestro with great science-fantasy and creativity ... Many people have done versions of my pieces, but no one has done them like this". Zorn followed with Spillane in 1987, his second major-label release, featuring performances by Albert Collins , the Kronos Quartet , and the sprawling title track, an early "file-card" composition. This method of combining composition and improvisation involved Zorn writing descriptions or ideas on file-cards and arranging them to form
1365-734: The Bayreuth Opera Festival in 1998; and La Machine de l'Être composed in 2000, premiered at the New York City Opera in 2011, and recorded for the 2012 album Music and Its Double . Zorn's concert works have been performed all over the world and he has received commissions from the New York Philharmonic , Brooklyn Philharmonic and BBC Radio 3 . Conversations with Joey Baron led Zorn to explore and embrace Jewish culture. A further file-card composition Kristallnacht (1992) reflected on
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#17327826421731430-458: The Kronos Quartet on Short Stories ) to awakening him to the possibilities of writing for classical musicians. This composition also appeared on The String Quartets (1999) and Cartoon S/M (2000) along with variations on "Kol Nidre", inspired by the Jewish prayer of atonement which was written at the same time as the first Masada Book. Aporias: Requia for Piano and Orchestra (1998)
1495-592: The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in March 2007 for what were billed as their final concerts. Zorn reformed the band as a sextet with Uri Caine and Cyro Baptista in 2009 saying: I felt like we kind of hit a plateau a little bit with it in 2007 and I said, "Well, maybe the quartet is really done. Maybe we've accomplished what we can accomplish. Maybe it's time to put this to bed." And then I
1560-700: The Night of Broken Glass that violently and destructively targeted Jews in Germany and Austria in 1938. Several movements used the Phrygian dominant and Ukrainian Dorian scales common to klezmer music . Zorn set himself the task of writing 100 compositions using the scale within a year. In 1993 Zorn engaged Baron along with Dave Douglas (trumpet) and Greg Cohen (double bass) to provide musical cues for Joe Chappelle 's first film Thieves Quartet (later collected on Filmworks III: 1990–1995 ) and established
1625-595: The Tzadik record label to ensure the availability of his catalogue and promote other musicians. The label's releases are divided into series: Tzadik also releases special-edition CDs, DVDs, books and T-shirts. Since 1998, the designs of Tzadik releases have been created by graphic artist Heung-Heung "Chippy" Chin. Zorn's earliest New York performances occurred at small artist-run performance spaces including his own apartment. As his profile grew, he became associated with several Lower East Side alternative venues such as
1690-425: The cartoon scores of Carl Stalling into his first recordings and discovered Anthony Braxton 's groundbreaking solo album For Alto which inspired him to take up the instrument. "I'm not going to sit in some ivory tower and pass my scores down to the players." said Zorn, "I have to be there with them, and that's why I started playing saxophone, so that I could meet musicians. I still feel that I have to earn
1755-592: The " Woodstock Jazz Festival ". The CMS facility in Woodstock closed in 1984, but its masterclasses continued as the World Jazz Encounters program internationally. In 2013, a facility was re-established, with sessions in the spring and fall, in Big Indian, New York . CMS began to digitize the archive of performances recorded during CMS workshops and special events. In 1971 musicians Karl Berger , Ingrid Sertso (his wife) and Ornette Coleman founded
1820-617: The Art Ensemble of Chicago strengthens the connection between CMS and the Chicago-based Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). • Garret List organizes the first of three Composers’ Colloquia. This one includes Ken McIntyre, John Cage, Maryanne Amacher, Michael Gibbs, Frederic Rzewski, Christian Wolff, Carla Bley, Garret List, and Karl Berger. 1979 • Art Ensemble of Chicago returns for
1885-453: The Book of Angels project, Azazal and Haborym . In 2003, Zorn formed Electric Masada, a band featuring Zorn, Baptista, Baron, and Ribot, along with Trevor Dunn (bass), Ikue Mori (electronics), Jamie Saft (keyboards), and Kenny Wollesen (drums) releasing their debut live album from Zorn's 50th Birthday Concert series and a double live CD recorded in 2004. In 2019, Zorn formed
1950-1058: The CMS Archive Project, CD compilations, a CMS Oral History Project, a partnership with Columbia University Jazz Studies Program, improvisers performances and ongoing residencies, continuing workshops and performances in New York City, Woodstock and around the world. In 2013, CMS began hosting residential workshops in the Catskills again, at the Full Moon Resort. Artists at these workshops have included MacArthur Fellows Vijay Iyer and Steve Coleman , 2016 Pulitzer Prize winning composer Henry Threadgill as well as Dave Douglas , Joe Lovano , John Medeski and Steven Bernstein , among others. A CMS Scholarship Program has enabled roughly half of workshop participants to receive full or partial scholarships, helping musicians from Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Israel, Poland and
2015-589: The CMS Archive Project. In 2012, Columbia University Library purchased the CMS Archive to preserve it for posterity. Some of the performances in the Archive are included in recordings made available to the public. Two three-CD sets were produced in 2014 and 2015 and garnered rave reviews from critics worldwide, including being named ‘Best Historical Release’ by Cadence and Jazz Times magazine. Rob Saffer, who served as executive director from 2010 to 2017, supported
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2080-569: The Creative Music Foundation. Its initial advisory board, composed of legends from all aspects of music, the arts and philosophy, included composer John Cage , conductor/musician Gil Evans , philosopher/educator Buckminster Fuller , composer George Russell , painter Willem de Kooning and composer/conductor Gunther Schuller . Their goal was to establish a nonprofit organization focused on improvisation and musical cross-pollination that complemented musicians’ academic studies,
2145-485: The Knitting Factory and Tonic. On Friday April 13, 2007, Zorn played the final night at Tonic before it closed due to financial pressures. Zorn was the principal force in establishing The Stone in 2005, an avant-garde performance space in New York's Alphabet City which supports itself solely on donations and the sale of limited-edition CDs, giving all door revenues directly to the performers. Zorn holds
2210-543: The Masada Books. Zorn completed the third Masada book, titled The Book Beriah , in 2014. Zorn released one of his most popular albums, The Gift , in 2001, which surprised many with its relaxed blend of surf, exotica and world music. On February 29, 2008, at St Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, Zorn premiered The Dreamers , which saw a return to the gentle compositions first featured on The Gift and established
2275-573: The Masada String Trio, composed of Greg Cohen (bass), Mark Feldman (violin), and Erik Friedlander (cello); and the Bar Kokhba Sextet which added Marc Ribot (guitar), Cyro Baptista (percussion), and Joey Baron (drums), both of which were featured on 1998's The Circle Maker . The Masada String Trio were also featured on Zorn's Filmworks series , as part of his 50th Birthday Celebration , and released two albums as part of
2340-621: The Middle East have been extensive, usually at festivals with musicians and ensembles that perform his repertoire. John Zorn was raised in a Jewish family in New York City where he attended the United Nations International School and studied piano, guitar and flute. Zorn's mother, Vera (née Studenski; 1918–1999), listened to classical and world music ; his father, Henry Zorn (1913–1992),
2405-539: The New Masada Quartet with Julian Lage (guitar), Jorge Roeder (bass), and Kenny Wollesen (drums). A Tenth Anniversary Series of Masada recordings was released by Zorn beginning in 2003. The series featured five albums of Masada themes including Masada Guitars by Marc Ribot , Bill Frisell , and Tim Sparks ; Masada Recital by Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisier ; Masada Rock by Rashanim; and two albums featuring various artists, Voices in
2470-638: The New School for Social Research. 1971 • Ornette Coleman, Karl Berger, and Ingrid Sertso establish the Creative Music Foundation. 1973 • Creative Music Studio begins offering instructional workshops at various locations in Woodstock, New York. • Early sessions feature Karl and Ingrid, Leroy Jenkins, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Lee Konitz, Don Cherry, Sam Rivers, Richard Teitelbaum, Stu Martin, Garrett List, and Ed Blackwell. 1975 • Karl and Ingrid first travel to Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, at
2535-504: The USA attend workshops. In 2018, Billy Martin assumed the position of president of CMS. The timeline is based on the organization's history records. 1965-1966 • Karl and Ingrid come to New York. Karl comes as a member of Don Cherry 's band. 1967 • Karl joins Horacee Arnold, Sam Rivers, and Reggie Workman for “Young Audiences” teaching program in New York public schools. 1970-1971 • Karl takes over John Cage's teaching position at
2600-458: The Wilderness and The Unknown Masada . In 2004, Zorn began composing the second Masada Book, The Book of Angels , resulting in an additional 316 compositions. Zorn explained: After 10 years of performing the first book, I thought "Maybe it'd be nice to write some more tunes." And I wrote 300 more tunes. When I started writing those it was "Let's see if I can write a hundred songs in
2665-645: The World Jazz Encounters program, holding masterclasses internationally, in the United States, Germany, Italy, Brazil, West Africa, India, the Philippines and Japan. Berger and his wife re-established a CMS facility in 2013, with sessions in the spring and fall, in Big Indian, New York . In addition, the Creative Music Foundation began efforts to digitize the immense archive of recorded performances recorded during CMS workshops and special events. Over 550 concerts were recorded and were digitized as part of
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2730-539: The artists from the 1979 session. • Composers’ Colloquium includes Douglas Ewart, Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis (all from the AACM), and others. 1981 • Woodstock Jazz Festival held as a fund raiser. Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton, Lee Konitz, Jack DeJohnette, Ed Blackwell, and a host of CMS participants perform. • Watazumido Dozo Roshi, bamboo flute master and Japanese national treasure visits CMS. • Pauline Oliveros comes to CMS to help develop and sustain
2795-615: The availability of his growing catalog of recordings. He prolifically recorded and released new material for the label, issuing several new albums each year, along with recordings by many other artists. Zorn performs on saxophone with his Naked City , Painkiller , and Masada bands, conducts ensembles such as Moonchild, Simulacrum, and several Masada-related groups or encourages musicians toward their own interpretations of his work. He has composed concert music for classical ensembles and orchestras, and produced music for opera, sound installations, film and documentary. Tours of Europe, Asia, and
2860-731: The band of the same name. The Dreamers released their second album, O'o , in 2009, an album of Zorn's Book of Angels compositions in 2010 and a Christmas album in 2011. In 1992, John Zorn curated the Avant subsidiary of the DIW label and released several Naked City recordings on the label as well as many other albums featuring Zorn affiliated musicians including Derek Bailey , Buckethead , Eugene Chadbourne , Dave Douglas , Erik Friedlander , Wayne Horvitz , Ikue Mori , Bobby Previte , Zeena Parkins and Marc Ribot . In 1995, in co-operation with jazz producer Kazunori Sugiyama, Zorn established
2925-501: The charts out and said, "OK, just watch me because I'll be conducting. Let's just do it." And it was one of those magical clicks on the bandstand that sometimes happens. So yeah, this band is taking off again. After 15 years of doing this music, we can still find new things. Zorn's Masada compositions and associated ensembles have become a central focus of many concerts and festivals and he has established regular 'Masada Marathons' that feature various bands and musicians performing music from
2990-406: The concept of 'Worldjazz' was born: the improvisational and compositional expansion of the world's musical traditions, guided by authentic leaders. Hundreds of live concerts were recorded, many regarded as landmark performances. Thousands of workshops, master classes, concerts and colloquia inspired a generation of musicians. In 1981, the organization celebrated its 10th anniversary at a concert titled
3055-599: The early 1980s, Zorn was heavily engaged in improvisation as both a solo performer and with other like-minded artists. Zorn's first solo saxophone recordings were originally released in two volumes as The Classic Guide to Strategy in 1983 and 1986 on the Lumina label. Zorn's early small group improvisations are documented on Locus Solus (1983) which featured Zorn with various combinations of other improvisers including Christian Marclay , Arto Lindsay , Wayne Horvitz , Ikue Mori , and Anton Fier . Ganryu Island featured
3120-473: The film scores of a formative musical influence, Ennio Morricone , to acclaim in 1986. Spillane and Naked City further demonstrated Zorn's ability to merge and blend musical styles in new and challenging formats. Zorn spent significant time in Japan in the 1980s and early '90s returning to Lower East Side Manhattan to establish the Tzadik record label in 1995. Tzadik enabled Zorn to establish independence, maintain creative control, and ensure
3185-407: The first Masada group to perform his recent compositions using the instrumental lineup and improvisational approach of Ornette Coleman 's pioneering free jazz quartet. Within three years, the number of compositions had grown to 205 and became known as the first Masada Book. Zorn explained: The project for Masada was to create something positive in the Jewish tradition something that maybe takes
3250-467: The first five of Moonchild's seven albums, released from 2006 through 2014, Patton utilized his full whisper-to-scream range while operating entirely without lyrics". As Zorn's interest in Naked City waned, he "started hearing classical music in [his] head again." Zorn started working on compositions that drew on chamber music arrangements of strings, percussion and electronic instruments. Elegy ,
3315-411: The hardest things I've ever done, but it was worth the effort." Three further releases on Nonesuch followed; Spy vs Spy in 1989, Naked City in 1990, and Filmworks 1986–1990 (1992) before Zorn broke with the label. All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I'm an additive person—the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with
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#17327826421733380-445: The idea of Jewish music into the 21st century the way jazz developed from the teens and 1920s into the '40s, the '50s, the '60s and on ... My initial idea was to write a hundred tunes. And then I ended up writing over 200 for the first book and then performed it countless time for years. In 1996, Zorn released Bar Kokhba featuring Masada compositions recorded by a rotating group of musicians. Two ensembles arose from this album:
3445-531: The invitation of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who gave Ingrid the name Sertso (“gold lake of understanding”). • CMS moves into Lutheran camp in Mt. Tremper, New York. 1977 • Creative Music Foundation purchases Oehler's Mountain Lodge. 1978 • Writers Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders hold poetry workshops at CMS. • CMS receives Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) grant. • New Year's Intensive session with
3510-529: The last performance was held at the original venue and Zorn moved operations to The New School's The Glass Box Theatre on the basis of a handshake deal . In September 2003, Zorn celebrated his 50th birthday with a month-long series of performances at Tonic in New York, repeating an event he had begun a decade earlier at the Knitting Factory . He conceptualized the month into several different aspects of his musical output. Zorn's bands performed on
3575-447: The mainstream, he's gradually asserted himself as one of the most influential musicians of our time". Zorn engaged New York City's downtown music scene in the mid-1970s, collaborating with improvising artists and experimenting with compositional strategies and arrangements. Over the next decade he performed throughout Europe and Japan and recorded on independent US and European labels. He released The Big Gundown , reconstructing
3640-479: The name of melding structure and improvisation in a seamless fashion". Zorn's early game pieces had sporting titles like Lacrosse (1976), Hockey (1978), Pool (1979), and Archery (1979), which he recorded and first released on Eugene Chadbourne 's Parachute label. His most enduring game piece is Cobra , composed in 1984 and first recorded in 1987 and in subsequent versions in 1992 , 1994 and 2002 , and revisited in performance many times. In
3705-549: The organization. 1982 • New Year's Intensive session features Pat Metheny, Jack DeJohnette, and Dave Holland. • Summer world music festival features Babtaunde Olatunji as well as various reggae bands. 1983 • Karl and Ingrid purchase a house on the property of the Lutheran Camp in Mt. Tremper, where CMS had been located 1975-1977. It's called Welcome House and serves as a residence and a workshop/performance space. John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953)
3770-413: The piece. Zorn described the process in 2003: I write in moments, in disparate sound blocks, so I find it convenient to store these events on filing cards so they can be sorted and ordered with minimum effort. Pacing is essential. If you move too fast, people tend to stop hearing the individual moments as complete in themselves and more as elements of a sort of cloud effect ... I worked 10 to 12 hours
3835-660: The surface that they can't see the connections, but they are there. —John Zorn Zorn demonstrated his hard bop credentials as a member of the Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet, recording Voodoo in 1986. News for Lulu (1988) and More News for Lulu (1992) featured Zorn, Bill Frisell and George E. Lewis performing compositions by Clark, Kenny Dorham , Freddie Redd , and Hank Mobley . He recorded Spy vs Spy featuring hardcore punk versions of Ornette Coleman 's compositions in 1989. According to Cook, "Zorn's admirers often consider him
3900-510: The title of artistic director and regularly performs 'Improvisation Nights'. Zorn feels that "The Stone is a unique space and is different from Tonic, the Knitting Factory, and most of the other venues we have played at as there is no bar ... so there is NO pressure to pack the house with an audience that drinks, and what night you perform has nothing to do with your power to draw a crowd or what kind of music you might play". On January 10, 2008, Zorn performed with Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson at
3965-599: Was Zorn's first full-scale orchestral release featuring pianist Stephen Drury , the Hungarian Radio Children's Choir and the American Composers Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies . Much of Zorn's classical work is dedicated or inspired by artists who have influenced him: Several of Zorn's later concert works drew inspiration from mysticism and the works of Aleister Crowley in particular; Magick (2004) featured
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#17327826421734030-506: Was asked by the Marciac Jazz Festival to put together a slightly larger group. They asked me what if I added a couple of people to Masada and I said, "I can't add anybody to the quartet. The quartet is the quartet, that's what we do." But then I thought, "Well, if I was going to add someone I would probably ask Uri and Cyro." So we tried it at Marciac and it was unbelievable. We didn't even have any rehearsal time. I just passed
4095-769: Was interested in jazz , French chansons , and country music ; and his older brother collected doo-wop and 1950s rock and roll records. Zorn spent his teenage years "listening to The Doors and playing bass in a surf band " while also exploring the experimental and avant-garde music of György Ligeti , Mauricio Kagel and Karlheinz Stockhausen and listening to cartoon soundtracks and film scores. Zorn taught himself orchestration and counterpoint by transcribing scores and studied composition under Leonardo Balada before enrolling at Webster College where he attended lectures by Oliver Lake . While at Webster he incorporated elements of free jazz , avant-garde and experimental music , film scores , performance art and
4160-425: Was not forthcoming, eventually independent filmmakers like Sheila McLaughlin and Raúl Ruiz sought his talents. Filmmaker Walter Hill rejected his music for a film to be called Looters . Although Zorn's score did not make the final cut he used the money he received to establish the record label, Tzadik, on which he released Filmworks II: Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill in 1995. Zorn also produced
4225-661: Was released on CD in two volumes by Knitting Factory Records . Creative Music Studio The Creative Music Studio ( CMS ) was a premier study center for contemporary creative music during the 1970s and 1980s, based in Woodstock, New York . Founded in 1971 by Karl Berger , Ingrid Sertso, and Ornette Coleman , it brought together students and leading innovators in the jazz and world music communities. Unprecedented in its range and diversity, CMS has provided participants with an opportunity to interact personally with musical giants of improvisation and musical thought. At CMS,
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