250px|dereita|miniatura|John Zorn (á dereita) con Masada.
John Zorn, nado o 2 de setembro de 1953 en Queens (Nova York), é un compositor e saxofonista estadounidense.
Ten asimilado multitude de influencias, sempre con predilección pola escena underground e as propostas extremas e arriscadas. É o dono do selo discográfico Tzadik, inaugurado en 1995, a través do que edita os seus discos, levando xa máis de cen ás costas.
Traballou en múltiples proxectos, a cada cal máis arriscado. Masada é un deles, un grupo de jazz con influencias moi variadas, abertos á improvisación. Editaron máis de dez discos de estudio e outros en directo. Tamén traballou no mundo das bandas sonoras, levando xa editados 17 discos do seu proxecto Filmworks, nos que recompila eses temas. Gravou tamén discos en solitario e múltiples experimentos musicais para debuxos animados, programacións imposibles, sons abstractos, pezas de cámara, concertos para piano e un sinfín de ideas desenvolvidas xunto a diversos músicos.
Antes de comezar co saxofón e coa composición aprendera a tocar outros instrumentos. O seu método compositivo consiste en crear diversas imaxes e momentos musicais que logo son estruturados e ordenados. É un dos máximos expoñentes da música noise, un estilo collage que fusiona o free, sons electrónicos, efectos, voces deformadas etc. Zorn introduciuse no jazz levado pola súa paixón cara a música contemporánea e tras escoitar a xente como John Cage ou Stockhausen. Na súa música hai tamén influencias de Ennio Morricone e outros compositores de bandas sonoras, reminiscencias da cultura xudía e inspiración en músicos e compositores como Harry Partch ou Charles Ives.
Discografía como John Zorn The Classic Guide to Strategy: Volume 1 (1981) Yankees (1983) Locus Solus (1983, 1997) Ganryu Island (1984, 1998) The Classic Guide to Strategy: Volume 2 (1985) The Big Gundown (1986) Spillane (1987) Spy vs Spy (1989) Elegy (1992) First Recordings 1973 (1995) Kristallnacht (1993) Bar Kokhba (1996) 2CD The Classic Guide to Strategy (1996, Collecting the out of print Volumes 1 and 2) Duras: Duchamp (1997) New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands (1997) Angelus Novus (1998) Aporias (1998) The Bribe (1998) Godard/Spillane (1999) The String Quartets (1999) The Big Gundown: 15th Anniversary Special Edition (2000, Remastered, with bonus tracks) Xu Feng (2000) Cartoon S/M (2000) 2CD Madness, Love and Mysticism (2001) Songs from the Hermetic Theater (2001) Chimeras (2003) Magick (2004) Rituals (2005) Mysterium (2005) Moonchild: Songs Without Words (2006) Astronome (2006) Six Litanies for Heliogabalus (2007) Femina (2009) Dictée/Liber Novus (2010) Interzone (2010) The Satyr's Play / Cerberus (2011 & 2012, deluxe edition book ltd. 66 copies) Mount Analogue (2012) Nosferatu (2012) The Song Project (2014) In The Hall of Mirrors (2014) The Song Project Live at Le Poisson Rouge (2015) Forro Zinho - Forro in the Dark Plays Zorn (2015) James Moore Plays The Book of Heads (2015) The Urmuz Epigrams (2018) In a Convex Mirror (2018) Tractatus Musico-Philosophicus (2019) Perchance To Dream... (2022)
Filmworks Series Filmworks 1986-1990 (1997) Filmworks II: Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill (1996) Filmworks III: 1990-1995 (1997) Filmworks IV: S&M (1997) Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy (1996) Filmworks VI: 1996 (1996) Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour (1997) Filmworks VIII: 1997 (1998) Filmworks IX: Trembling Before G-D (2000) Filmworks X: In The Mirror of Maya Deren (2001) Filmworks XI: Under the Wing (2002) Filmworks XII: Three Documentaries (2002) Filmworks XIII: Invitation to a Suicide (2002) Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking (2003) Filmworks XV: Protocols of Zion (2005) Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death (2005) Filmworks XVII: Notes on Marie Menken/Ray Bandar: A Life with Skulls (2006) Filmworks XVIII: The Treatment (2006)
Music Romance Series Music for Children (Volume One, 1998) Taboo & Exile (Volume Two, 1999) The Gift (Volume Three, 2001) I.A.O. (Volume Four, 2002)
Parachute Years Lacrosse (1977, 1997, 2000) 2CD Pool (1980, 1997, 2000) Hockey (1980, 1997, 2002) Archery (1981, 1997, 2001) 3CD
Cobra Cobra (1987) Live at the Knitting Factory (1992) Tokyo Operations '94 (1994) John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2 (2002)
con Naked City Naked City (1989) Torture Garden (1990) Grand Guignol (1992) Leng Tch'e (1992) Heretic (1992) Radio (1993) Absinthe (1993) Black Box (1996, collects Torture Garden & Leng Tch'e álbums) 2xCD Naked City Live, Vol. 1: Knitting Factory 1989 (2002) Naked City Box Set (2005)
con Masada (John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Greg Cohen, Joey Baron) Alef (1994) Beit (1994) Gimel (1994) Dalet (1994) EP Hei (1995) Vav (1995) Zayin (1996) Heit (1996) Tet (1997) Yod (1997) Live in Taipei 1995 (1998) Live in Jerusalem 1994 (1999) 2CD Live In Middleheim 1999 (1999) Live in Sevilla 2000 (2000) Live at Tonic 2001 (2001) First Live 1993 (2002) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Seven (2004) Sanhedrin (2005) 2CD
Con Masada String Trio The Circle Maker (1998, Disc 1 by Masada String Trio, Disc 2 by Bar Kokhba Sextet) 2CD 50th Birthday Celebration Volume One (2004) Azazel: Book Of Angels Vol. 2 (2005)
con Bar Kokhba Sextet The Circle Maker (1998, Disc 1 by Masada String Trio, Disc 2 by Bar Kokhba Sextet) 2CD 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Eleven (2005)
con Electric Masada 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Four (2004) At the Mountains of Madness (2005) 2CD
con Painkiller Guts of a Virgin (1991) EP Buried Secrets (1992) EP Rituals: Live in Japan (1993) Execution Ground (1994) Collected Works (1997, Includes Guts of a Virgin, Buried Secrets, Execution Ground, Live in Osaka and bonus material) 4CD Guts of a Virgin/Buried Secrets (1998, Collection of first two EP's) Talisman: Live in Nagoya (2002) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Twelve (2005, guest vocals by Mike Patton)
con Hemophiliac Hemophiliac (2002) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Six (2004)
Masada Anniversary Series Masada Anniversary Edition Vol. 1: Masada Guitars (2003) Masada Anniversary Edition Vol. 2: Voices in the Wilderness (2003) Masada Anniversary Edition Vol. 3: The Unknown Masada (2003) Masada Anniversary Edition Vol. 4: Masada Recital (2004) Masada Anniversary Edition Vol. 5: Masada Rock (2005)
50th Birthday Celebration Series 50th Birthday Celebration Volume One (por Masada String Trio, 2004) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Two (por Milford Graves/John Zorn, 2004) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Three (por Locus Solus, 2004) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Four (by Electric Masada, 2004) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Five (by Fred Frith/John Zorn, 2004) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Six (by Hemophiliac, 2004) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Seven (by Masada, 2004) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Eight (by Wadada Leo Smith/Susie Ibarra/John Zorn, 2004) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Nine: The Classic Guide to Strategy Volume Three (by John Zorn, 2004) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Ten (by Yamataka Eye/John Zorn, 2005) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Eleven (by Bar Kokhba Sextet, 2005) 3CD 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Twelve (by Painkiller, 2005)
Colaboracións School (con Eugene Chadbourne, 1978) News for Lulu (con Bill Frisell e George Lewis - 1988) T.V. Eye (versión de The Stooges) (por John Zorn/Yamatsuka Eye/Robert Quine/Bill Laswell/Ted Epstein. No recompilatorio Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary de 1990. More News for Lulu (con Bill Frisell, George Lewis - 1992) Possession (con "God" featuring Justin Broadick/Kevin Martin, 1992) Art of Memory (con Fred Frith, 1994 - relanzado en 1999) Zohar (coa The Mystic Fugu Orchestra, 1995) Downtown Lullaby (con Wayne Horvitz/Elliot Sharp/Bobby Previte, 1998) The Stone: Issue One (con Dave Douglas/Mike Patton/Bill Laswell/Rob Burger/Ben Perowsky, 2006)
Aparicións en álbums Purged Specimen (de Blind Idiot God, 1989) Blue Planet Man (de Big John Patton, 1993) Sacrifist (de Praxis, 1994) Minor Swing (de Big John Patton, 1995) Pranzo Oltranzista (de Mike Patton, 1997) Weird Little Boy (de Weird Little Boy, 1998) Prelapse (de Prelapse, 1999)
Filmografía A Bookshelf On Top Of The Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn (2004) Masada Live at Tonic 1999 (2004) Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise (2005) Sabbath in Paradise (2007)
Ligazóns externas Tzadik.com Tzadik myspace Mike Patton Chile John Zorn en Rey Por Un Día (en castelán) - Páxina dedicada a Mike Patton Patrice Roussel's John Zorn Discography (to Mar. 2000) Mailing List Zorn Mailing List Archives Art of the States: John Zorn John Zorn's biography and discography by Scott Maykrantz Unofficial John Zorn Homepage maintained by Jamie Graves. Deconstruction in Music by Marcel Cobussen. Interactive dissertation on deconstruction in the music of John Zorn and others. John Zorn interview (Hungarian)
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