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| John Zorn cosplaying Kreemé in a Pluto mask, inspecting CD Space Ladder components, yesterday (and if you ever read a more stupider caption than that in your entire life, I want to hear about it). |
You'll know genre-challenging avant-garde jazz fusion musician John Zorn [below left - Ed.] for his prodigiously incontinent flow of new albums (currently eighteen a day, rounded down), but did you know there's a bold science initiative inspiring it? Zorn waxed loquacious during a recent visit to th' IoF©! We relaxed poolside whilst [grammar - Ed.] Kreemé served her signature nose sebum and hot dog water smoothies.
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| John Zorn, yesterday |
FT3 Heyyy! Th' Zornster! Lookin' good!
JZ [checking levels on digital recorder] You have, like, three minutes? I have an album to record.
FT3 Tell us anent your latest album!
JZ Huh? It's the same as all the others, I guess. I ain't listened to it yet.
FT3 You haven't heard it?
JZ Who has the time? I don't even listen while I'm recording, I'm thinking about the next one already. Just another shiny step to Pluto!
FT3 Tell us anent your bold planetary travel initiative!
JZ Gazillions of John Zorn CDs will be fused together using nano technology to construct a Space Ladder™ between my lovely home in Leafhaven Falls, VT, to the mysterious Ninth Planet! Where I hope to record an album with its alien lifeform, the talking dog after which the planet is named!
FT3 Uh ... that's Goofy? Goofy is the talking dog.
JZ [silence]
FT3 Pluto was like, Goofy's pet or something.
JZ Fuck you and your negativity, man. If Columbus had listened to you mankind would never have discovered the Loch Ness Monster. Now, if you'll excuse me? Testing, testing ...
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You want a John Zorn album? Are you kidding? I only have Spillane, which is swell.
ReplyDeleteHmm .. not sure!!! Do I?
ReplyDeleteHey, he’s wearing a bow tie and braces. I thought you were a cravat and tank-top kin’a guy?
ReplyDeletebrooklyn born and brooklyn fled but while i was there i hit the sixties hard.i saw sonny stitt at the fillmore east and i began going to whatever jazz events i could. i saw many of the 'greats' before they retired or died.
ReplyDeletewhen zorn had just started making a name for himself i wasn't particularly but he just kept coming now he's playing on everything that out there.
i must admit i did enjoy Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman
Let's have some more Ezzential Zorn, so that we may profit therefrom.
DeleteNova Express,Naked City,Lamentations,Gnosis: The Inner Light,Godard ca vous chante?,News for Lulu,The Big Gundown ...too many ??? there's like a thousand more
DeleteI recommend this one from 1986: The Big Gundown (John Zorn Plays The Music Of Ennio Morricone), with an impressive line-up of musicians.
ReplyDeleteZorn's soundtracks are the cream.
ReplyDeleteHemophiliac
ReplyDelete'Pool' (a rule-based group improvising situation from 1979-80) and 'Classic Guide To Strategy' 1 & 2 (solo Zorn on alto and game-calls 1981-5) are right up my cup of tea.
ReplyDeleteI'd have uploaded them but I see they're MIA in my library. Will see what else I have...
DeleteI've got his Christmas CD (or one of them) in heavy rotation during December!
ReplyDeleteI liked him in Archery and in The Golden Palominos, and
ReplyDeletePainkiller- Guts of a Virgin