John Zorn News

The optimistic attempts of jazz musicians to generate lucrative seasonal cheer usually induce one to reach for the nearest John Zorn or Evan Parker album as an antidote.

Seventeen years after it began tricking neo-Deadheads into listening to jazz, the trio of keyboardist John Medeski, drummer Billy Martin, and bassist Chris Wood is the certifiable leader of an entire movement.

Martin Longley also currently writes for the BBC Music, Brooklyn Vegan, Spannered and Stirrer websites, The Wire and Jazzwise magazines, and the Coventry Telegraph newspaper.

Though devoutly worshipped by fans, jazz drummers don't often lead groups; the late Art Blakey 's long-running Jazz Messengers are a prominent, if rare, exception.

John Zorn and Bill Laswell asked former Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris to cement the evil jazz backbone of Painkiller.

Tzadik label chief John Zorn has never lost his passion for hard-core music. Although his band Naked City is no more, he continues to promote artists who, to quote Allen Ginsberg, are "destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix." The band AhleuchatistasA certainly ...

When clarinetist Ben Goldberg dubbed his new quartet Go Home, the imperative was mostly self-directed, a mission statement indicating a change of course for a musician known for bracing excursions to jazz's fringes.

Moodswing Orchestra Moodswing Orchestra El Destructo ESSENTIAL "Sweet Adelaide'' Moodswing Orchestra plays at the Lizard Lounge on Thursday.

Ben Perowsky is a New York-based jazz drummer who's worked with underground godfather John Zorn, film noir -inspired indie rockers Elysian Fields, and the experimental/soul hybrid group Joan As Police Woman.

Joel Roberts has been contirbuting to AAJ since its earliest days and is currently a staff writer for AAJ-New York.

Violinist Mark Feldman Solo in NYC! Sunday, October 18th at 5pm The 'Lounge" at Hudson View Gardens is at 116 Pinehurst Ave.

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent.

The bassist Trevor Dunn has a lot of experience making music of canny disruption and outrageous effect.

Erik Friedlander is something of an evangelist for the cello, expanding it into previously unknown territories: in Middle-Eastern pop, say, or with the Mountain Goats , in noisy jazz ensembles with avant-jazz/new musicA composer John Zorn , or as leader of his own ensembles.

Hope and Destruction [Tzadik] 1 2 Let's get real here. Let the Bad Plus and Medeski, Martin and Wood get all the jazz publicity they want, the most interesting young post-rock musicians in jazz's wide orbit right now are those who sometimes call what they do "Radical Jewish Music" and frequently record for John Zorn's Tzadik label - and, almost as ...

John Zorn is not one to rest on his laurels. It is probably not possible for Zorn to rest, period.

The first time you hear Bill Frisell play will change the way you hear guitar forevermore.

This innovative alt-klezmer/alt-Jewish music ensemble represents the growing interest of John Zorn 's Tzadik label in the Israeli Jewish music scene.

Rashied Ali, the great free jazz drummer, who is mainly known as a member of John Coltrane's last band, passed away yesterday, August 12, 2009 in New York City.

In the mid-1980s I witnessed avant-garde saxophonist, instrumentalist and composer John Zorn literally clear a room at St.