Jazz saxophonist John Zorn, who was born Jewish, has led a highly prolific career playing and composing in many different styles of jazz and other music. Some of the music he made may not even by considered "music" by the average joe, namely his extreme music jazz fusion groups Naked City and Painkiller. In these groups hes performed with people you may consider to be some of your favorites like Mike Patton, Bill Laswell, and Baltimore's own Bill Frisell. Some other of John Zorn's works include his work on movie and television scores, his work with orchestras, his solo jazz career, his record label Tzadik, and his Klezmer influenced jazz fusion project Masada, which I will be sharing with you.
Klezmer music, for those of you that don't know, is traditional Ashkenazi Jewish music from the 15th century. I don't really know the history of the music but it has had a revival in the united states in the last 20 years. Partially due to avant-garde jazz musicians such as Zorn. When John Zorn wrote the music for Masada he was trying to become more in touch with his Jewish heritage, saying "The idea with Masada is to produce a sort of radical Jewish music, a new Jewish music which is not the traditional one in a different arrangement, but music for the Jews of today. The idea is to put Ornette Coleman and the Jewish scales together."
So here it is the eighth section of the Masada songbook and a happy Hanukkah (and other less important winter holidays) to all.
1. Shechem 11:25
2. Elilah 4:38
3. Kodashim 4:39
4. Halom 1:59
5. Ne'eman 9:56
6. Abed-Nego 7:13
7. Tohorot 4:39
8. Mochin 6:36
9. Amarin 4:28
10. Khebar 4:40
John Zorn's Masada - het (eight) (1997)
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