When saxophonist/composer John Zorn first introduced Masada in 1994, it's unlikely that he could have anticipated it would become so successful. The first songbook was originally developed for his ...

John Zorn doesn't like doing interviews and seldom grants them. The wildly eclectic, boldly experimental, amazingly prolific alto saxophonist and composer did, however, agree to talk on the phone from ...

John Zorn's album Gnosis: The Inner Light serves as a poignant memorial and homage to the creative genius of one of modern music's most visionary composers, Ennio Morricone, who played a vital role in ...

I’m guessing not too many of you are familiar with avant-garde/experimental composer/arranger/producer/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn. Yes, Zorn has worked largely ...

Content warning: This episode contains explicit language. Trick question: How do you chronicle the creative plenitude of John Zorn? It's a fool's errand, considering his body of work, which at least ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Comprised of violinist Christopher Otto, violinist Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, JACK's The Complete String Quartets features eight John Zorn quartets, ...

6:00 p.m.: British Eighteenth-Century Painting Gallery 629. This performance is inspired by Pieter van Laer, called Il Bamboccio, Magic Scene with Self-Portrait (L.2006.30) located in adjacent Dutch ...

John Zorn has been leading “Cobra,” one of his most famous improvisational “game piece” performances, for upwards of 40 years, and as part of his 70th birthday celebration at Knoxville’s Big Ears, he ...

A Bookshelf On Top of the Sky: Twelve Stories About John Zorn Avant-garde saxophonist/composer John Zorn incorporates wildly disparate musical genres, from head-banging rock to Sephardic klezmer and ...