Results for "Tzadik"

John Zorn: Nove Cantici per Francesco d'Assisi

by Mario Calvitti
September 23, 2019

John Zorn ci ha abituati da tempo a una produzione tanto quantitativamente copiosa quanto qualitativamente molto alta. Ultimamente ha diradato molto la frequenza delle pubblicazioni per la sua etichetta Tzadik, mantenendo però sempre un alto livello di qualità, e questo recente album ispirato alla figura di San Francesco d'Assisi rappresenta sicuramente uno dei suoi lavori migliori ...

John Zorn

Born: September 2, 1953

Drawing upon his experience in classical, jazz, rock, hardcore punk, klezmer, film, cartoon, popular, world and improvised music, John Zorn has created a controversial and influential body of work that often defies academic categories. He has earned great respect within his own community and beyond by going his own way without compromise, developing a large network of supporters world wide, often in unexpected places.

Born in 1953 and raised in New York City, Zorn has been a central figure in the Downtown Scene since 1975, incorporating a wide variety of creative musicians into various compositional formats. He is an indefatigable worker and highly prolific: he has composed over 120 works for classical ensembles including 8 string quartets, vocal music, chamber music, concerti, operas, symphonic and dance works, improvisational game pieces, studio based compositions, and has released over 150 cds under his own name, 99% of which are on his own Tzadik label.

The Urmuz Epigrams

By John Zorn

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2018
Track listing: Disgusted With Life; This Piano Lid Serves as a Wall; With Wet Clothes and Disheveled Hair He Wandered in the Dead of Night in Search of Shelter; Then Again, Who Amongst Us Can Complain; A Rain of Threats and Screams; The Pelican or the Pelicaness; After That the Funnel Became a Symbol; Desperate from Having Been Left Without a Bladder.

Six Encomiums for Cecil Taylor

By Aruán Ortiz

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2018
Track listing: Genuflect; Quauhnahuac; Minor Magus; Grass and Trees on the Other Side of the Tracks; Unveiling Urban Pointillism; April 5th, 2018.

Two Exciting And Poignant Albums From Wendy Eisenberg

by Hrayr Attarian
December 15, 2018

A fearless improviser with a refreshing disregard for genre, Wendy Eisenberg is a poet, banjoist and vocalist yet Eisenberg's guitar fully showcases her mastery. This virtuoso explores all dimensions of her instrument with fiery elegance and a vibrant sense of adventure to her music. In 2018 she released two stimulating and unique albums: Its Shape is ...

Winged Serpents: Six Encomiums for Cecil Taylor

by Karl Ackermann
September 17, 2018

The link between the late Cecil Taylor and the members of the Winged Serpents collective is one driven by admiration and inspiration, from a distance, rather than through collaboration. Taylor, in fact, had only shared billing twice in his half-century of recording. The Mary Lou Williams duet Embraced (Pablo, 1977) and Max Roach's 1979 recording of ...

John Zorn: The Urmuz Epigrams

by Don Phipps
April 9, 2018

Prolific composer John Zorn's The Urmuz Epigrams offers up an infectious mix of Stockhausen effects, polyrhythmic percussion, and twisty tunes, a combination which produces music that is unsettling, surprising, and humorous--often at the same time. All the pieces repeat themselves. Zorn notates the first rendition as “modern" and the second as “original." And while ...

Undertaker Please Drive Slow

By Shane Parish

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2017
Track listing: Ain t No Grave; Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground; Danville Gal; Trouble Will Soon Be Over; Judgment; The Last Kind Words; I Hope I Live a Few More Days; John Hardy; Hangman; Katie Cruel; Can't Nobody Hide From God; Oh Death; The Maid; Freed From the Gallows; Will the Circle Be Unbroken; Murder's Home

Buer: Book Of Angels Volume 31

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2017
Track listing: Jekusial; Diniel; Akzariel; Palleal; Parymel; Kazkiel; Gavreel; Tsizyal; Bazazath; Lagin; Avial; Camael; Petabel; Kadmiel; Sennoi; Gebuel.

Highsmith

By Craig Taborn

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2017
Track listing: The Still Point Of The Turning World; Music To Die By; Two Disagreeable Pigeons; Nothing That Meets The Eye; Variations On A Game; Quiet Night; A Bird in Hand; Dangerous Hobby; Things Had Gone Badly; Mermaids On The Golf Course; Trouble With The World.