R.I.P. bohemian New York,was a special few decades of artistic life.What an amazing time period especially the lower East side and Brooklyn after that. Maybe it will happen again. At least people have it documented.
NYC was always an expensive place to live after the 70's, which was the last inexpensive decade to live in that city. Every since then, it has never been a cheap place for artists to set up shop.
I like the chaos of the music but what is it about the music that makes it jewish? Is he taking old jewish rhythms or melodies? or is it just that he's jewish?
IMHO Zorn is a musical phony. Structuring improv according to a game's rules does not make it sound better or more structured (check out Butch Morris's work for very musical improv direction). And having a group noodle around on a harmonic minor (Eastern-sounding) scale is not radical Jewish music. Sheesh!
Torture Garden is my favorite Jewish folk album
lol
Would love to see what's in this guy's bookcases and what's on his record shelves.
John Zorn Cribs
Possibly my favorite artist and composer!
R.I.P. bohemian New York,was a special few decades of artistic life.What an amazing time period especially the lower East side and Brooklyn after that.
Maybe it will happen again.
At least people have it documented.
brooklyn was crooklyn and no one went there
NYC was always an expensive place to live after the 70's, which was the last inexpensive decade to live in that city. Every since then, it has never been a cheap place for artists to set up shop.
It will NEVER happen again. A brief moment in time. . .
I just knew he slept with his records.
I miss my wife
Zorn talks about things he was working on "in 2004," with some sense of such things being already in the past.
if I'm correct, this is an excerpt of A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn
Almost all clips are from the "Sabbath in Paradise" DVD outakes
Awesome, thanks for sharing !
What a legend.
genius
A good musician with various interests .... but give him a bookcase ...
Cream of the Best
C'est bien rangé, chez lui. 🙂
Anyone can recognize what little keyboard Zorn has? Might be Casio PT 30?
This was recorded in 2005 or later
How did he pay his rent?
Cobra (Hat-Hut Recs)!
I like the chaos of the music but what is it about the music that makes it jewish? Is he taking old jewish rhythms or melodies? or is it just that he's jewish?
Listen to his big fuckin ass body of work called masada, bar kokhba, electric masada etc first. It will help for sure
IMHO Zorn is a musical phony. Structuring improv according to a game's rules does not make it sound better or more structured (check out Butch Morris's work for very musical improv direction). And having a group noodle around on a harmonic minor (Eastern-sounding) scale is not radical Jewish music. Sheesh!
nonsense
@@michaels7159 OK, you're right, you convinced me.
@@brianzayman2228 I know
How can one define "a more musical improvisation" ? I sense the essentialist logic behind this, which is, by the book, a dead end.
@Andrés Del Busto in my honest opinion