John Zorn is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and world music.

Personnel:
Carol Emanuel: Harps
Bill Frisell: Guitar
John Medeski: Organ
Kenny Wollesen: Vibes, Bells
Bridget Kibbey: Harps
Al Lipowski: Vibes, Bells
Drawing inspiration from various Gnostic philosophies of the Nag Hammadi library, Transmigration of the Magus is a musical evocation of the mystical journey of the soul through the bardo. Lyrical and tender, the music has a lush orchestral sweep and features Bill Frisell and John Medeski reveling within the magical sonorities of vibraphones, bells and harps. Created to help the passing of Zorn’s dear friend Lou Reed through the bardo realms and released on the one year anniversary of his passing, Transmigration of the Magus is a memorial tribute to one of Zorn’s musical mentors and is one of his most touching and emotional projects—truly music of the angels.

John Zorn is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and world music.

New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands is an album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn consisting of improvised music from paired instruments and narration in Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese.[1] The pieces are listed individually within Zorn's game pieces and were composed in 1986, 1988 and 1990 respectively.[2]

John Zorn is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and world music.

The Big Gundown is an album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn. It comprises radically reworked covers of tracks by the Italian film composer Ennio Morricone. It was originally to be called "Once Upon a Time in the Lower East Side".
The album is named after a 1966 spaghetti western of the same name, directed by Sergio Sollima, starring Lee Van Cleef, and scored by Morricone. It was first released in 1985 on the Nonesuch/Icon label. In 2000 a remastered 15th Anniversary Edition with additional tracks was released on CD on Zorn's Tzadik Records label.
1. "The Big Gundown" - 7:26
2. "Peur Sur La Ville" - 4:16
3. "Poverty" (Once Upon A Time In America)- 3:49
4. "Milano Odea" - 3:02
5. "Erotico (The Burglars)" - 4:27
6. "Battle Of Algiers" - 3:50
7. "Giu La Testa" (Duck You Sucker!) - 6:06
8. "Metamorfosi" (La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso) - 4:37
9. "Tre Nel 5000" - 4:37
10. "Once Upon a Time in the West" - 8:44

专辑类型：Avant-Garde Jazz / Jewish Music / Modern Composition / Chamber Jazz / Modern Creative
专辑厂牌：Tzadik
专辑介绍：
John Zorn的音乐丰富多变，被标志为美国现代音乐的后现代主义者。喜欢卡通电影，屡屡将悲壮史诗的电影音乐改编成噪音爵士，颇令人发指。Zorn极爱拼贴各种音乐，举凡古典，通俗，前卫，独奏，二重，三重，多重，朗诗，尖叫，哭喊，音乐与表演艺术的界线在John Zorn的作品与表现中崩解于无形。
90年代初John Zorn开始寻求犹太人的文化根，结合优秀的纽约音乐家，组成Masada乐团，先由日本唱片公司发行数张昂贵的西低，而后在美国创立自己的厂牌Tzadik，积极推动“激进犹太文化”，并有系统的重新发行其他类型的创作，Masada在美发行第一套专集Bar Kokhba，获摇滚杂志Spin选为1996年十大专集之一，以钢管乐器表现为主，即兴演奏有浓厚民族风味的爵士乐。
另附：前卫爵士音乐唱片品牌介绍——Tzadik Records
TZADIK:JOHN ZORN 在纽约和东京同时开设的前卫品牌。除了他自己的作品外,也出版了DEREK BAILEY、FRED FRITH、LEO SMITH以及日本先锋艺术家的大量唱片。是最极端也是最前卫的90年代实验声学厂牌之一。
厂牌所出产的范畴包括：Avant Garde、Free Improvisation、Transgressions、tribal/ethnic、Ambient、Minimal。分为6个系列“作曲家”、“犹太文薄ⅰ靶氯毡尽薄ⅰ暗缬芭淅帧薄ⅰ暗蛋浮薄?“疯子边缘”，8个专栏。内里超过100张唱片简介和70多首的选段试听。
虽说是日本的地下公司，除本土日本艺人之外，旗下所签的大部分是纽约的先锋艺术家。且多数属于Improvisers（即兴）作曲家，例如前卫音乐鬼才Rodd Keith、 Sample实验大师David Shea（旗下发表过颠峰之作“Hsi-Yu Chi 西游记” （David shea & 吴蛮 & John Zorn）、激进原始派Ikue Mori、用Saxophonist将 日本民乐和俄罗斯音乐通婚的东欧前卫作曲家Compostels、错乱蓝调之王Rodd Keith...当然也有杰出的日本实验音乐高手，如大友良英、灰野敬二(Keiji Haino) 。除此之外，相当部分推荐的唱片都属珍贵的临时性跨地域合作。此唱片公司极其注重即兴实验噪音的艺术追求。

A special concert to benefit The Stone by three legends of the New York Underground! Indisputably one of the greatest and most influential musicians in Rock History, Lou Reed has been exploding and exploring new sounds since the mid sixties. Always with a connection to the avant-garde, Lou here teams up with maverick composer/performer John Zorn for a series of improvisations and sound compositions that will surprise and startle even their hardcore fans. With a special appearance by Laurie Anderson, one of the most original voices of this or any other century, this is one of the most unusual and legendary meetings in the New Music scene.
Zorn - Saxophone
Reed - Guitar
Anderson - Violin, Keyboards

John Zorn is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and world music.