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Naked City (Album) by John Zorn
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John Zorn Born September 2 1953 In New York City United States Is An American Avant-Garde Composer Arranger Record Producer Saxophonist And Multi-Instrumentalist. Zorn's Recorded Output Is Prolific With Hundreds Of Album Credits As A Performer Composer Or Producer. His Work Has Touched On A Wide Range Of Musical Genres Often Within A Single Composition But He Is Best-Known For His Avant-Garde Jazz Improvised And Contemporary Classical Music. Zorn Has Led The Punk Jazz Band Naked City The Klezmer-Influenced Quartet Masada And Composed The Associated 'Masada Songbooks' Written Concert Music For Classical Ensembles And Produced Music For Film And Documentary. Zorn Has Stated That "I've Got An Incredibly Short Attention Span. My Music Is Jam-Packed With Information That Is Changing Very Fast... 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 The Surface That They Can't See The Connections But They Are There." After Releasing Albums On Several Independent US And European Labels Zorn Signed With Elektra Nonesuch And Attracted Wide Acclaim In 1985 When He Released The Big Gundown With His Interpretations Of Music Composed By Ennio Morricone. This Was Followed By The Album Spillane In 1987 And The First Album By Naked City In 1989 Which All Attracted Further Worldwide Attention. Zorn Then Recorded On The Japanese DIW Label And Curated The Avant Subsidiary Label Before Forming Tzadik In 1995 Where He Has Been Prolific Issuing Several New Recordings Each Year And Releasing Works By Many Other Musicians.
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John Zorn Born September 2 1953 In New York City United States Is An American Avant-Garde Composer Arranger Record Producer Saxophonist And Multi-Instrumentalist. Zorn's Recorded Output Is Prolific With Hundreds Of Album Credits As A Performer Composer Or Producer. His Work Has Touched On A Wide Range Of Musical Genres Often Within A Single Composition But He Is Best-Known For His Avant-Garde Jazz Improvised And Contemporary Classical Music. Zorn Has Led The Punk Jazz Band Naked City The Klezmer-Influenced Quartet Masada And Composed The Associated 'Masada Songbooks' Written Concert Music For Classical Ensembles And Produced Music For Film And Documentary. Zorn Has Stated That "I've Got An Incredibly Short Attention Span. My Music Is Jam-Packed With Information That Is Changing Very Fast... 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 The Surface That They Can't See The Connections But They Are There." After Releasing Albums On Several Independent US And European Labels Zorn Signed With Elektra Nonesuch And Attracted Wide Acclaim In 1985 When He Released The Big Gundown With His Interpretations Of Music Composed By Ennio Morricone. This Was Followed By The Album Spillane In 1987 And The First Album By Naked City In 1989 Which All Attracted Further Worldwide Attention. Zorn Then Recorded On The Japanese DIW Label And Curated The Avant Subsidiary Label Before Forming Tzadik In 1995 Where He Has Been Prolific Issuing Several New Recordings Each Year And Releasing Works By Many Other Musicians.
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Naked City Is An Album By John Zorn Originally Released On Nonesuch Records In 1990. The Band Which Would Become Known Under The Same Name Included Zorn On Alto Saxophone With Bill Frisell On Guitar Wayne Horvitz On Keyboards Fred Frith On Bass And Joey Baron On Drums And Was Established In 1988 As A "compositional Workshop" To Test The Limitations Of A Rock Band Format. The Album Was Rereleased As Part Of The Box Set Naked City The Complete Studio Recordings On Zorn's Tzadik Label In 2005. The Allmusic Review By Scott Yanow Awarded The Album 5 Stars Stating "The Stimulating Music Rewards Repeated Listenings By More Open-Minded Listeners." Jon Pareles Observed In The New York Times That "Mr. Zorn Doesn't Bother With Transitions. While He And His Musicians Create Every Sudden Textural Shift Themselves Without Technological Assistance His Guides Are The Splice The Jump Cut The Video Edit - Not To Mention The Jack-In-The-Box And Its More Sinister Relatives In Funhouses And Horror Movies. In His Music Coherence Is Barely More Than Propinquity One Sound Or Style Simply Doesn't Predict The Next." Guy Peters Stated "John Zorn’s Naked City-Project Was About The Most Far Out You Could Get And Zorn’s Exploration Of What He “could Come Up With Given The Limitations Of The Simple Sax Guitar Keyboard Bass Drums-Format” Became The Pinnacle Of Avant Coolness... The Result Was A Post-Modern Hybrid That Cut Up Sequences As He Saw Fit And Treated All Genres Equally Jazz Grindcore And Country & Western Were Allowed To Coexist Even In The Same Song." Christopher Thelen Noted "While Naked City Is Certainly Groundbreaking It Hardly Is For Everybody. The Faint-Hearted Will Be Running For The Exits Before Zorn And Crew Can Really Get Warmed Up Purists Of Jazz Rock And Possibly Even Grindcore Might Consider The Marriage Of Several Styles Of Music Sacrilegious. Possibly. But For The Rest Of Us Naked City Represents Unbridled Energy Passion And Possibly Even Anger Channeled Into Music. The Resulting Noise Is Sheer Joy To Those Who Get It And Sheer Madness To Those Who Don't." Pitchfork Media Ranked This Album At 47 On Their Top 100 Albums Of The 1980s List. Their Review Of The Complete Studio Recordings Stated "On Naked City Zorn Introduced An Amped-Up Surf/lounge/punk Band Featuring Downtown New York's Biggest Talents Who Blast And Din Through The 'James Bond' Theme Song The Theme To Chinatown And A Sound Portrait Of New Orleans' Latin Quarter – And Then Right When They Slip Into A Groove Out Of Nowhere The Band Launches Punishing Blasts Of Noise And Catastrophe Flaming Wreckage That Blows Up And Collapses On A Dime."