John Zorn

Zorn became the jazz poster child for the punk rock generation with this exhilarating mix of crime and spy soundtrack styles with free-form Avant Garde craziness. Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, and Wayne Horowitz help out on a release so exhilarating that you won't even care whether this is cutting edge or kitsch.

The weegee photo on the cover sets you up for downtown composer/alto saxophonist
John Zorn's latest musical onslaught. Yanking deliberately harsh and grainy shots out of the
mix-and-match sonic grab bag called pop history, Zorn compresses them into odd-angled
sound bites, shuffles them and then hurls them by in a gleeful assault. Despite patches of
relative calm and even innocence, ironic subversion lurks at every turn of phras... More >